{"id":4867,"date":"2023-05-23T00:05:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T18:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2023-05-31T16:58:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T11:28:34","slug":"history-of-23-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-23-may\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 23 May"},"content":{"rendered":"

History of 23 May<\/h2>\n

1900<\/strong> – Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney became the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, 37 years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.<\/p>\n

1901<\/strong> – American forces captured Filipino rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo.<\/p>\n

1908<\/strong> – Part of the Great White Fleet arrived in Puget Sound, WA.<\/p>\n

1915<\/strong> – During World War I, Italy joined the Allies as they declared war on Austria-Hungary.<\/p>\n

1922<\/strong> – The play “Abie’s Irish Rose” opened in New York City.<\/p>\n

1922<\/strong> – “Daylight Saving Time” was debated in the first debate ever to be heard on the radio in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

1926<\/strong> – The French captured the Moroccan Rif capital.<\/p>\n

1934<\/strong> – In Bienville Parish, LA, Bonnie Parker, and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed by Texas Rangers. The bank robbers were riding in a stolen Ford Deluxe.<\/p>\n

1937<\/strong> – Industrialist John D. Rockefeller died.<\/p>\n

1938<\/strong> – “LIFE” magazine\u2019s cover pictured Errol Flynn as a glamour boy.<\/p>\n

1945<\/strong> – In Luneburg Germany, Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi Gestapo, committed suicide while imprisoned by the Allied forces.<\/p>\n

1949<\/strong> – The Republic of West Germany was established.<\/p>\n

1960<\/strong> – Israel announced the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.<\/p>\n

1962<\/strong> – The National Basketball Association (NBA) agreed to transfer the Philadelphia Warriors to San Francisco, CA. The team became the San Francisco Warriors (and later the Golden State Warriors).<\/p>\n

1962<\/strong> – Joe Pepitone of the New York Yankees set a major league baseball record by hitting two home runs in one inning.<\/p>\n

1981<\/strong> – In Barcelona, Spain, gunmen seized control of the Central Bank and took 200 hostages.<\/p>\n

1985<\/strong> – Thomas Patrick Cavanagh was sentenced to life in prison for trying to sell Stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

1992<\/strong> – In Lisbon, Portugal, the U.S., and four former Soviet republics signed an agreement to implement the START missile reduction treaty that had been agreed to by the Soviet Union before it was dissolved.<\/p>\n

1994<\/strong> – “Pulp Fiction” won the “Golden Palm” for best film at the 47th Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n

1995<\/strong> – The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was demolished.<\/p>\n

1998<\/strong> – British Protestants and Irish Catholics of Northern Ireland approved a peace accord.<\/p>\n

1999<\/strong> – In Kansas City,\u00a0MO, Owen Hart (Blue Blazer) died when he fell 90 feet while being lowered into a WWF wrestling ring. He was 33 years old.<\/p>\n

1999<\/strong> – Gerry Bloch, at age 81, became the oldest climber to scale El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. He broke his own record that he set in 1986 when he was 68 years old.<\/p>\n

2013<\/strong> – Google acquired Makani Power for use for its Project Wing.<\/p>\n

2016<\/strong> – U.S. President Obama announced that the United States would end its ban of lethal military equipment sales to Vietnam. The restrictions had been in place since the end of the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

2017<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Philippine President\u00a0Rodrigo Duterte\u00a0declared\u00a0martial law\u00a0in\u00a0Mindanao, following the\u00a0Maute’s\u00a0attack in Marawi.<\/p>\n

Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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  • 1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Silvio Proto, Belgian-Italian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Hugo Almeida, Portuguese footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Sebasti\u00e1n Fern\u00e1ndez, Uruguayan footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Teymuraz Gabashvili, a Russian tennis player<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Wim Stroetinga, Dutch cyclist<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ross Wallace, Scottish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ryan Coogler, American film director and screenwriter<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Alexei Sitnikov, Russian-Azerbaijani figure skater<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Alice Tait, Australian swimmer<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ruben Zadkovich, Australian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Gracie Otto, Australian actress, director, producer, and screenwriter<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Bray Wyatt, American wrestler<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Rosanna Crawford, Canadian biathlete<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Angelo Ogbonna, Italian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Morgan Pressel, American golfer<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ezequiel Schelotto, Italian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dan Evans, a British tennis player<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Kristina Kucova, a Slovakian tennis player<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Oliver Venno, Estonian volleyball player<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Aaron Donald, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Lena Meyer-Landrut, German singer-songwriter<\/sup><\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0C\u00e9sar Pinares, Chilean footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1996<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Katharina Althaus, German ski jumper<\/li>\n
  • 1996<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Emmanuel Boateng, Ghanaian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1996<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Razvan Marin, Romanian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1997<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Pedro Chirivella, Spanish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1997<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Coy Craft, American footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1997<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Joe Gomez, English footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1997<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Gustaf Nilsson, Swedish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1997<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sam Timmins, New Zealand basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1998<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0S\u00e9rgio Sette C\u00e2mara, Brazilian race car driver<\/li>\n
  • 1998<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ross Cunningham, Scottish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1998<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Salwa Eid Naser, Bahraini track and field sprinter<\/li>\n
  • 1998<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Luca De La Torre, American footballer<\/li>\n
  • 2000<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Felipe Drugovich, Brazilian race car driver<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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