About May 23
May 23, 2023 is the 143rd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 222 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 263 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 23
- 1430 –Siege of Compiègne: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne.
- 1498 –Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy, on the orders of Pope Alexander VI.
- 1609 –Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.
- 1618 –The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years’ War.
- 1701 –After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
- 1805 –Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Cathedral of Milan.
- 1813 –South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”).
- 1846 –Mexican-American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.
- 1911 –The New York Public Library is dedicated.
- 1934 –American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.
- 1939 –The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.
- 1948 –Thomas C. Wasson, US Consul-General assassinated in Jerusalem.
- 1949 –The Federal Republic of Germany is established and the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany is proclaimed.
- 1951 –Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with the People’s Republic of China.
- 1967 –Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran and blockades the port of Eilat at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping.
- 1990 –Jordan Mack was born.
- 1995 –The first version of the Java programming language is released.
- 2002 –The “55 parties” clause of the Kyoto protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
- 2004 –Part of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport’s Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others.
- 2006 –Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.
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