Historical events
1099 – Modena Cathedral is founded.
1297 – With the papal bull “Lapis abscissus” the previous excommunications of the cardinals Giacomo and Pietro Colonna are confirmed, now also extended to Jacopone da Todi, to the five nephews of the card. Giacomo Colonna and their heirs declared schismatics
1430 – Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians in front of Compiègne
1498 – Death of Savonarola at the stake
1520 – Mayan revolt against the conquistadors
1533 – The special tribunal presided over by Thomas Cranmer, new archbishop of Canterbury, declares the marriage of Henry VIII of England with Catherine null; five days later, on 28 May, he declared the one with Anna valid, who was crowned queen on 1 June, while Catherine became widowed princess (of Prince Arthur Tudor).
1541 – Jacques Cartier leaves Saint-Malo (France) for his third voyage
1555 – Paul IV becomes Pope
1568 – Battle of Heiligerlee: The troops of Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat at Heiligerlee, in the lordship of Groningen, a small force loyal to the Duke of Arenberg who was invading Flanders.
1592 – Giordano Bruno is arrested in Venice
1609 – Official ratification of Virginia’s second statute
1618 – The second defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years’ War
1701 – After being found guilty of the murder of William Moore and of piracy, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London
1788 – South Carolina becomes the eighth state to ratify the United States Constitution
1815 – Austro-Neapolitan War: Austrian troops enter Naples, placing Ferdinand IV of Naples and Sicily back on the throne.
1865 – Parade along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington to celebrate the end of the American Civil War
1873 – The Canadian Parliament establishes the constitution of the North West Mounted Police (which will be renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920), these are the famous “Red Coats”
1886 – Italy: General political elections for the 16th legislature take place
1900 – Sergeant William Harvey Carney becomes the first African American to receive a Congressional Medal of Honor (awarded for heroism during the Battle of Fort Wagner during the American Civil War)
1915 – World War I: the Kingdom of Italy declares war on Austria, marking its entry into the Great War
1934 – Near their Black Lake, Louisiana, bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are killed in an ambush by Texas Rangers.
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1949 – The Federal Republic of Germany is established
1958 – Explorer I ceases transmissions
1960 – Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion announces the capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann
1985 – Thomas Patrick Cavanagh is sentenced to life in prison for attempting to sell stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet Union.
1992 – Capaci massacre: a bomb blows up the motorway while the cars of judge Giovanni Falcone and his escort pass by
1995Sun Microsystems announces the birth of the Java programming language.
Oklahoma City bombing: In Oklahoma City, the remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building are imploded
2003 – Mountaineering: 25-year-old Nepalese Sherpa, Pemba Dorjie Sherpa, makes the fastest ever ascent of Everest, in 12 hours and 45 minutes
2008 – The treaty establishing the Union of South American Nations, Unasud, an integrated political and economic community for the twelve independent states of South America, is signed in Brasilia.
Parties and anniversaries
International:
World Turtle Day
Saints today May 23rd
Saint Desiderius of Langres (or of Genoa), bishop and martyr
Saint Dorotheus, Russian monk (Russian Orthodox Church)
Saint Ephebus of Naples (or Euphebius), bishop
Saint Euphrosyne of Polack, abbess
Saints Eutizio and Fiorenzo, monks
Saint Fedele of Strasbourg, bishop
Saint John Baptist de’ Rossi, priest
Saint William of Rochester, martyr
Saint Guibert of Gembloux, monk
Saint Hilarion Jugskie, Russian monk (Russian Orthodox Church)
Saints Lucius, Montanus and companions, martyrs
Holy Martyrs of Cappadocia
Holy Martyrs of Mesopotamia
Saint Michael of Sinnada, bishop
Saint Honoratus of Subiaco, abbot
Saint Pontius of Condat, monk
Saints of Rostov-Yaroslavl (Eastern Rite Churches)
Saint Syagrius of Nice, bishop
Holy Spes Abbot
Blessed 20 Martyrs of Beziers, Mercedarians
Blessed Cristoforo Soler, mercedary
Blessed Garcia de Cardenas, Mercedarian
Blessed Giulio da Porto, mercedary
Blessed Giuseppe Kurzawa and Vincenzo Matuszewski, priests and martyrs
Blessed Raimondo Folch, bishop
Born today May 23rd
Rubens Barrichello (1972)
Bungaro (1964)
Andrea Delogu (1982)
Levante (1987)
Giuseppe Parini (1729)
Andrea Pazienza (1956)
Deaths today May 23rd
Giovanni Falcone (1992)
Heinrich Himmler (1945)
Roger Moore (2017)
John Nash (2015)
Girolamo Savonarola (1498)
