This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
05/23/1598 Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter, baptized 
05/23/1617 Elias Ashmole, antiquary 
05/23/1620 Pieter Neefs de Jongere, Flemish painter, baptized 
05/23/1644 Thomas Eisenhut, composer 
05/23/1696 Johann Caspar Vogler, composer 
05/23/1707 Carolus Linn‘us, Sweden, biological classifier 
05/23/1710 Fran‡ois-Gaspard Adam, French sculptor (Tuinbeelden) 
05/23/1718 William Hunter, obstetrician/medal writer 
05/23/1729 Giuseppe Parini, Italian priest/poet (Il Giorno) 
05/23/1734 Friedrich Anton Mesmer, Austria, physician/hypnotist (Mesmerism) 
05/23/1737 Louis Francois Chambray, composer 
05/23/1741 Andrea Lucchesi, composer 
05/23/1753 Giovanni Battista Viotti, violonist/composer 
05/23/1754 Andrea Appiani, fresco painter 
05/23/1756 Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel, composer 
05/23/1759 Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer 
05/23/1790 Jules-S‚bastien-C‚sar Dumont d'Urville, explorer 
05/23/1794 Ignaz Moscheles, composer 
05/23/1795 Charles Barry, architect 
05/23/1799 Thomas Hood, poet/composer 
05/23/1810 Margaret Fuller, writer/critic 1st pro book review column (NY Trib) 
05/23/1812 Henri A Esquiros, French poet/writer (Les Vierges Folles) 
05/23/1813 Mason Brayman, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 
05/23/1820 James Buchanan Eads, US, engineer/inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis) 
05/23/1824 Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General (Union volunteers) 
05/23/1828 Edward Hitchcock, America's 1st prof of physical ed (Amherst College

05/23/1832 Pieter JBCR van de Aa, geographer 
05/23/1837 James Sanks Brisbin, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 189

05/23/1843 Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer 
05/23/1844 'Abdu'l-Bah , early Bah '¡ leader ('Azamat 7, 1) 
05/23/1848 Helmuth J L von Moltke, German general/chief of staff 
05/23/1849 K roly earl Khuen-H‚derv ry, Premier of Hungary (1910-12) 
05/23/1851 Antoni Stolpe, composer 
05/23/1862 William 'Dummy' Hoy, professional baseball player who lived to 99 
05/23/1864 Louis Glass, composer 
05/23/1866 Gustav Aschaffenburg, German psychiatrist/criminalologist 
05/23/1871 Sigurd Lie, composer 
05/23/1873 Leo Baeck, rabbi/president (World Union for Progressive Judaism) 
05/23/1882 James Gleason, writer/actor (Bishop's Wife, Flying Fool) 
05/23/1883 Douglas Fairbanks, US actor (Zorro/3 Musketeers/Robin Hood) 
05/23/1886 James Gleason, US screenwriter/actor (Arsenic & Old Lace) 
05/23/1888 Adrian Roland Holst, poet (Woest en moe) 
05/23/1890 Herbert Marshall, actor (Murder, Razor's Edge, Little Foxes) 
05/23/1890 Virginia Eames, entertainer 
05/23/1891 P„r Lagerkvist, Sweden, novelist/dramatist (Barabbas, Nobel 1951) 
05/23/1898 Frank McHugh, actor (Front Page, Gold Diggers 1935, Mighty Joe Young

05/23/1901 Edmund Rubbra, Northampton England, composer (Morning Watch) 
05/23/1902 Mark Lothar, composer 
05/23/1903 Walter Reisch, US, screenwriter (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic) 
05/23/1906 Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer 
05/23/1907 Kenneth Allen, engineer 
05/23/1907 Matthew Campbell, British senior civil servant 
05/23/1908 Christian GK Ba‰ta, Togolese chairman (International Broadcasters) 
05/23/1908 John Bardeen, US, physicist (transistor, Nobel 1956, 1972) 
05/23/1908 Max Abramovitz, US architect (Lincoln Center, UN Building) 
05/23/1909 Edwin Arrowsmith, diplomat 
05/23/1910 Artie Shaw, [Arthur Arshawsky], NYC, bandleader (Come'on my House) 
05/23/1910 Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter 
05/23/1910 Hugh Casson CH, architect 
05/23/1910 Scatman Crothers, actor (Zapped, Shininh) 
05/23/1911 Boris Kremenliev, composer 
05/23/1911 Melvin M Payne, president (National Geographic Society) 
05/23/1912 David Barran, CEO (Midland Bank, England) 
05/23/1912 Jean Fran‡aix, Le Mans France, composer (Le Rui Nu) 
05/23/1912 John Payne, Roanoke Va, actor (Restless Gun) 
05/23/1912 Marius Goring, Isle of Wight, actor (Herr Palitz-Holocaust) 
05/23/1912 Samuel Curran, vice chancellor (Strathclyde University) 
05/23/1913 Ian Graeme, major-general 
05/23/1914 Alec Dickson, founder (VSO) 
05/23/1914 Barbara Ward, economist/writer (Only One Earth) 
05/23/1918 Bulent Arel, composer 
05/23/1918 Dennis Compton, author/cricketeer 
05/23/1919 Betty Garrett, St Joseph Mo, actress (Irene-All in the Family) 
05/23/1920 Helen O'Connell, Lima Ohio, singer (Green Eyes, Anapola) 
05/23/1920 Sid Melton, Bkln NY, actor (Alf-Green Acres, Charlie-Danny Thomas) 
05/23/1921 Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician 
05/23/1921 James [Benjamin] Blish, US/UK, sci-fi author (Hugo, Star Trek Reader

05/23/1921 Loren Tindall, actor (Meet Me on Broadway, Girl of Limberlost) 
05/23/1921 Sanderson Temple, circuit judge 
05/23/1923 Alicia de Larrocha, Copenhagen Denmark, pianist (Orquesta Sinfonica)

05/23/1924 Desmond Carrington, British radio host 
05/23/1924 Michael McCrum, master of Corpus Christi College Cambridge 
05/23/1928 Nigel Davenport, Cambridge England, actor (Without a Clue, Masada) 
05/23/1928 Nina Otkalenko, USSR, 800m runner (9 world records) 
05/23/1928 Rosemary Clooney, Kentucky, singer/coronet paper towels spokeswoman 
05/23/1929 Joe Modise, South African commandant of Umkhonto we Sizwe (1965-  ) 
05/23/1929 Ulla Jacobson, Swedish actress (One Summer of Happiness) 
05/23/1931 Barbara Barrie, Chicago, actress (Breaking Away, Barney Miller) 
05/23/1931 Jos‚ Telles Da Concei‡ao, Brazil, high jumper (Olympic-bronze-1952) 
05/23/1932 James Lester, MP 
05/23/1932 John Lyons, Master of Trinity Hall (Cambridge) 
05/23/1933 Gerrit J M Braks, Dutch minister of land & fishing (CDA) 
05/23/1933 Joan Henrietta Collins, London, actress (Alexis-Dynasty, Bitch) 
05/23/1934 Malcolm Gill, deputy head of Banking Depart, Bank for Intl Settlemen

05/23/1934 Robert Moog, inventor (Moog Synthesizer) 
05/23/1935 Juliet Campbell, British ambassador to Luxembourg 
05/23/1935 Lord Grenfell, head of External affairs European office, world bank 
05/23/1936 Robert Sangster, horse owner/trainer 
05/23/1937 John Mazza, horse trainer 
05/23/1938 John R Miller, (Rep-R-WA, 1985-  ) 
05/23/1938 Peter Preston, editor (Guardian) 
05/23/1939 Ron Stevens, horse trainer 
05/23/1941 Jackson Hill, composer 
05/23/1943 John Newcombe, Australia, tennis pro (Wimbeldon 1967, 70, 71) 
05/23/1943 Peter Kenilorea, PM Solomon Islands 
05/23/1944 General Norman Johnson, US singer (Down at the Beach Club) 
05/23/1944 Giles Smith, TV journalist 
05/23/1944 Lady Olga Maitland, MP 
05/23/1944 Ramon 'Tiki' Fulwood, US drummer (Funkadelic, Knee Deep) 
05/23/1945 Lauren Chapin, actress (Kathy-Father Knows Best) 
05/23/1946 Tom Dorris, horse trainer 
05/23/1948 Reggie Cleveland, baseball player 
05/23/1949 Alan Garc¡a P‚rez, pres of Peru (1985-  ) 
05/23/1950 Linda Thompson, Memphis Tn, actress (Hee Haw) 
05/23/1951 Anatoli Karpov, USSR, world chess champion (1975-85) 
05/23/1951 Judy Rodman, Riverside Calif, country singer (Girls Ride Horses Too)

05/23/1952 'Marvelous' Marvin Hagler, NJ, middleweight boxing champ (1982-83) 
05/23/1952 Deborah Adair, actress (Tracey-Dynasty, Kate-Day of Our Life) 
05/23/1955 John Stevens, MEP 
05/23/1958 Shelly West, country singer 
05/23/1958 Thomas Reiter, German engineer/test pilot/astronaut candidate 
05/23/1961 Kevin Romine, baseball player 
05/23/1962 Karen Duffy, [Duff], NYC, MTV veejay 
05/23/1964 Staci Greason, Denver, actress (Isabella Toscando-Days of Our Lives)

05/23/1966 Graeme Hick, cricketer 
05/23/1969 Ramon Caraballo, baseball player 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
05/23/1125 Hendrik V, Roman catholics German king/emperor (1098/1111-25), dies 
05/23/1153 David I, king of Scotland (1124-53), dies at about 68 
05/23/1423 Benedict XIII, [Pedro the Luna], Spanish Pope (1394-1423), dies 
05/23/1498 Girolamo Savonarola, dictator of Florence (1494-98), hanged at 45 
05/23/1568 Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich, dies in battle at 2

05/23/1627 Luis de G¢ngora y Argote, poet/writer, dies 
05/23/1648 Luis de Nain, painter, dies 
05/23/1668 Philips Wouwerman, Haarlems painter, buried 
05/23/1684 Adriaen Backer, Amsterdams painter buried at about 48 
05/23/1701 William Kidd, naval captain/pirate, hanged in London 
05/23/1754 John Wood, architect/town planner, dies 
05/23/1783 James Otis, American lawyer, dies 
05/23/1785 William Woollett, engraver, dies 
05/23/1834 Charles Wesley, composer, dies at 76 
05/23/1838 John W Janssens, gov-gen (Cape Colony), dies at 75 
05/23/1842 Jos‚ de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet, dies at 34

05/23/1851 Lucas Pieter Roodbaard, architect, dies at 69 
05/23/1860 Albert Richard Smith, author/lecturer, dies 
05/23/1867 Archibald Alison, Scottish historian, dies at 74 
05/23/1875 Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer, dies at 78 
05/23/1881 Kit Carson, frontiersman, dies 
05/23/1881 Leopold von Ranke, historian, dies 
05/23/1883 Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda), dies 
05/23/1887 Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, composer, dies at 74 
05/23/1891 Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73 
05/23/1905 Martinus W van AA Meerbeke, head-editor (Time), dies at 75 
05/23/1906 Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (Doll House), dies 
05/23/1908 Fran‡ois Copp‚e, French poet, dies 
05/23/1926 Hans Koessler, composer, dies at 73 
05/23/1934 Bonnie Parker, outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush 
05/23/1934 Clyde Barrow, outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush 
05/23/1937 John Davison Rockfeller, industrialist, dies at 97 in Ormond Beach F

05/23/1940 Andrej N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai, dies

05/23/1940 Paul Nizan, French journalist/writer (Ce Soir/Aden Arabia), dies at 

05/23/1941 Lord Herbert Austin, motor manufacturer, dies 
05/23/1941 Slavko Osterc, composer, dies at 46 
05/23/1945 Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44 
05/23/1952 Georg Alfred Schumann, composer, dies at 85 
05/23/1960 Georges Claude, engineer/inventor, dies 
05/23/1961 Joan Davis, comedic actress (I Married Joan), dies at 53 
05/23/1965 David Smith, sculptor, dies 
05/23/1966 Ruth Gates, actress (Aunt Jenny-Mama), dies at 79 
05/23/1967 Philip Coolidge, actor (I Want to Live, Tingler), dies at 58 
05/23/1967 Sanne Sannes, photographer, dies at 30 
05/23/1968 James Burke, actor (Ellery Queen, Army Surgeon), dies at 81 
05/23/1968 Merle Kendrick, orch leader (Window on the World), dies at 72 
05/23/1969 Diane DeAubry, entertainer, dies 
05/23/1969 Jimmy McHugh, composer (Can't Give You Anything But Love), dies at 7

05/23/1970 Nydia Westman, actress (Going My Way, Young Mr Bobbins), dies at 68 
05/23/1973 Athena Lorde, actress (Judith-One Man's Family), dies at 57 
05/23/1975 Jackie 'Moms' Mabley, comedienne (Amazing Grace), dies at 81 
05/23/1979 Hubert van Doorne, auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at 79 
05/23/1981 George Jessel, US comic/toastmaster (Diary of Young Comic), dies at 

05/23/1982 Louis J N G‚rardin, bicyclist (world champ sprint 1930), dies at 69 
05/23/1983 Albert Claude, Belgian biologist (Nobel 1974), dies at 84 
05/23/1986 Sterling Hayden, actor (Blue & Gray), dies at 70 
05/23/1987 Karel Albert, composer, dies at 86 
05/23/1988 David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris), dies at 7

05/23/1990 Rocky Graziano, boxer/writer/actor (Mr Rock & Roll), dies 
05/23/1991 Jean van Houte, Belgian premier, dies 
05/23/1991 Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright (Love or money), dies 
05/23/1992 Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer/composer/poet/guitarist, dies 
05/23/1992 Giovanni Falcone, anti-mafia judge (Palermo), murdered 
05/23/1993 James Millhollin, actor (Anston Foster-Grindl), dies 
05/23/1994 Carl Althoff, German circus director, dies at 82 
05/23/1994 Joe Pass, US jazz guitarist (The Trio), dies at 65 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
05/23/1430 Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians, who sell her to English 
05/23/1493 Peace of Senlis 
05/23/1498 Vasco da Gama arrives in Calcutta 
05/23/1533 King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null & void 
05/23/1544 German emperor Charles V recognizes king Christian III of Denmark 
05/23/1555 Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV 
05/23/1568 Battle at Heiligerlee: Dutch rebels beat Spanish, 100s killed 
05/23/1576 Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory 
05/23/1618 Defenestration of Prague; beginning of 30 Years War 
05/23/1644 Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists

05/23/1647 Willem II sworn in as viceroy of Holland 
05/23/1660 King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to Englan

05/23/1667 King Afonso VI of Portugal flees 
05/23/1706 Battle of Ramillies-Marlborough defeats French; 17,000 killed 
05/23/1785 Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals 
05/23/1788 SC becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution 
05/23/1844 Declaration of B b (Bah '¡ festival) ('Azamat 7, 1) 
05/23/1848 Otto Lilienthal, pioneer aviator 
05/23/1853 Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859) 
05/23/1856 N R Pogson discovers asteroid #42 Isis 
05/23/1861 3 fleeing slaves enter Fort Monroe Virginia 
05/23/1861 Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession 
05/23/1862 Battle at Front Royal, Virginia 
05/23/1862 Valley Campaign-Stonewall Jackson takes Ft Royal, Virginia 
05/23/1864 Battle of Dallas, GA 
05/23/1864 Battle of North Anna, Va, 1st of 3 days of fighting 
05/23/1865 -24] Victory parade in Washington, DC (Grand Review) 
05/23/1865 Flag flown at full staff over White House, 1st time since Lincoln sh

05/23/1865 Grand Review begins in Washington DC 
05/23/1867 Jesse James-gang rob bank in Richmond Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken)

05/23/1873 Canada's North West Mounted Police force established 
05/23/1873 Postal cards sold in SF for 1st time 
05/23/1876 1st NL no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston) 
05/23/1878 Atty John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia 
05/23/1882 6' of snow falls in eastern Iowa 
05/23/1883 Baseball game between one-armed & one-legged players 
05/23/1887 1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver, BC 
05/23/1898 1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from SF 
05/23/19-- B.J. & Peg Hunnicutt of Mill Valley's anniversary (on M*A*S*H) 
05/23/1900 Associated Press News Service forms in NY 
05/23/1901 Indians score 9 runs after 2 outs in 9th to beat Senators 14-13 
05/23/1901 US captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo 
05/23/1903 1st automobile trip across US from SF to NY, ended April 1 
05/23/1903 1st direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin 
05/23/1908 Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die 
05/23/1908 Part of Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Wash 
05/23/1911 NY Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by Pres Taft 
05/23/1915 Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary during WW I 
05/23/1917 Dutch 2nd Chamber okays 1908 conscription draft 
05/23/1918 King Oil/Shell refinery on Cura‡ao officially opens 
05/23/1921 'Shuffle Along' 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC 
05/23/1922 'Abie's Irish Rose' 1st of over 2,500 performances 
05/23/1922 Harry Greb gave Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat 
05/23/1922 Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films 
05/23/1923 1st flight of Sabena: Brussel-Lympne, Great Britain 
05/23/1923 Stanley Baldwin becomes British premier 
05/23/1926 Lebanese constitution established under French mandate 
05/23/1928 Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die 
05/23/1931 Whipsnade Zoo opens in Whipsnade Beds England 
05/23/1932 Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman sets 24 hr record of 860 mi, 367 yds 
05/23/1934 Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon (polymeer 66) 
05/23/1935 1st scheduled night game, postponed due to rain (Cincinnati) 
05/23/1939 British decoration, George Cross, 1st presented 
05/23/1939 British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949 
05/23/1939 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj appointed professor at conservatory of Leningra

05/23/1939 Submarine Squalis sank off Portsmouth NH, 26 die 
05/23/1941 Heavyweight Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer (disqualification) in Wash DC

05/23/1941 Rudolf Harbig runs world record 1k (2:21.5) 
05/23/1943 In Dr Faustus, Serenus Zeitblom begins his bio of Adrian Leverkhn 
05/23/1943 Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr Faustus 
05/23/1944 British/Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo Italy 
05/23/1944 Chinese counter offensive at Hunan front 
05/23/1944 Operation-Buffalo: Allied jailbreak out Anzio-bridgehead 
05/23/1945 German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British 
05/23/1945 Lord Haw-Haw arrested at Danish boundary 
05/23/1947 PC Hooft prize established for literature 
05/23/1948 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs 
05/23/1948 Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel 
05/23/1949 Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day) 
05/23/1953 WHIZ TV channel 18 in Zanesville, OH (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting 
05/23/1956 World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, SF 
05/23/1958 Mao Tse tung start 'Great leap forward' movement in China 
05/23/1959 Presbyterian church accepts women preachers 
05/23/1960 Israel announced capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina 
05/23/1960 WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting 
05/23/1960 WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan, PR 1st broadcast 
05/23/1960 WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (NYC) 
05/23/1962 Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio) 
05/23/1962 OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life 
05/23/1962 Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in US Aurora 7 
05/23/1963 NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000 
05/23/1965 Franz Jonas elected president of Austria 
05/23/1965 Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawi, kills 150 
05/23/1966 Beatles release 'Paperback Writer' 
05/23/1967 Government bans submarines near South Africa 
05/23/1968 Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London 
05/23/1969 BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus 
05/23/1969 Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes 
05/23/1969 Who release rock opera 'Tommy' 
05/23/1970 Grateful Dead's 1st perfomance outside of US (England) 
05/23/1970 SD Padres beat SF Giants 17-16 in 15 innings 
05/23/1971 Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands 
05/23/1974 Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed 
05/23/1977 Benin adopts its constitution 
05/23/1978 General strike in Peru 
05/23/1979 'Kids Are Alright' premieres 
05/23/1979 Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy 
05/23/1979 West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president 
05/23/1981 Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage 
05/23/1981 NASA launches Intelsat V 
05/23/1982 BBC warns they will bomb Argentina 
05/23/1982 Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles 
05/23/1982 Pope John Paul II declares 'Peerke' Donders divine 
05/23/1984 Detroit Tigers win AL record tying 16th straight road game 
05/23/1986 US & West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa 
05/23/1988 Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990 
05/23/1989 Lincoln Square in Bronx named 
05/23/1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,856.26 
05/23/1990 NY Yankees hit 6 home runs to beat Minn Twins 12-0 
05/23/1991 Last Cubans troops leave Angola 
05/23/1991 Phillie Tommy Greene no-hits Mont Expos, 2-0 
05/23/1992 NY Yankees play in their 4th straight extra inning game 
05/23/1994 270 pilgrims dies in bustle round Mina Saudi-Arabia 
05/23/1994 Roman Herzog elected president of Germany 
  
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