About May 23
May 23, 2024 is the 144th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 222 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 251 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.
- 1533 –The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
- 1568 –Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years’ War.
- 1568 –The Netherlands declare their independence from Spain.
- 1618 –The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years’ War.
- 1788 –South Carolina ratifies the Constitution as the 8th American state.
- 1829 –Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna.
- 1844 –Declaration of the Báb: a merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith, and Bahá'ís celebrate the day as a holy day.
- 1873 –The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- 1900 –American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney becomes the first African American to be awarded the Medal of Honor, for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
- 1907 –The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
- 1911 –The New York Public Library is dedicated.
- 1934 –The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the “Battle of Toledo”, a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
- 1945 –World War II: The Flensburg government under Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are captured and arrested by British forces at Flensburg in Northern Germany.
- 1949 –The Federal Republic of Germany is established and the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany is proclaimed.
- 1958 –Explorer 1 ceases transmission.
- 1990 –Jordan Mack was born.
- 1995 –Oklahoma City bombing: In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building are imploded.
- 2002 –The “55 parties” clause of the Kyoto protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
- 2008 –The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.
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