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Events from History on May 23

1059 : Henri I crowns his son compassionate King Philip I of France
1275 : King Edward I of Engld orders cessation of persecution of French Jews
1420 : Jews of Syria & Austria expelled
1421 : Jews of Austria imprisoned & expelled
1430 : Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne & sold to the British
1493 : King Charles VIII & Maximilian I of Austria signs Peace of Senlis
1533 : King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null & void
1536 : Pope Paul III installs Portugese inquisition
1544 : German emperor Charles V recognizes king Christian III of Denmark
1555 : Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV
1568 : Battle at Heiligerlee: Dutch rebels beat Spanish, 100s killed
1576 : Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory
1611 : Matthias von Habsburg chosen king of Bohemia
1618 : 2nd Defenestration of Prague; beginning of 30 Years War
1618 : Imperial civil servants thrown out a window of Prague Castle
1644 : Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists
1647 : Willem II sworn in as viceroy of Holland
1660 : King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England
1667 : King Afonso VI of Portugal flees
1706 : Battle of Ramillies-Marlborough defeats French; 17,000 killed
1750 : Carlo Goldoni's "Il Bugiardo," premieres in Mantua
1774 : Chestertown tea party occurs (tea dumped into Chester River)
1785 : Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals
1788 : SC becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution
1844 : Declaration of B b (Bah '¡ festival) ('Azamat 7, 1)
1853 : Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859)
1861 : 3 fleeing slaves enter Fort Monroe Virginia
1861 : Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession
1862 : Battle at Front Royal, Virginia
1862 : Valley Campaign-Stonewall Jackson takes Ft Royal, Virginia
1864 : Battle of Dallas, GA
1864 : Battle of North Anna, Va, 1st of 3 days of fighting
1865 : -24] Victory parade in Washington, DC (Grand Review)
1865 : Flag flown at full staff over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot
1865 : Grand Review begins in Washington DC
1867 : Jesse James-gang rob bank in Richmond Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken)
1873 : Canada's North West Mounted Police Force (RCMPF) forms
1873 : Postal cards sold in SF for 1st time
1876 : 1st NL no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston)
1878 : Atty John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia
1882 : 6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa
1887 : 1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver, BC
1894 : William Love hosts ground breaking ceremonies for Love Canal
1898 : 1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from SF
xxxx : B J & Peg Hunnicutt of Mill Valley's anniversary (on M*A*S*H)
1900 : Associated Press News Service forms in NY
1901 : Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent
1901 : US captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo
1903 : 1st automobile trip across US from SF to NY, ended April 1
1903 : 1st direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin
1908 : Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die
1908 : Part of Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Wash
1911 : NY Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by Pres Taft
1915 : Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary & Germany during WW I
1916 : Heavy battles at Fort Douaumont Verdun
1917 : Dutch 2nd Chamber okays 1908 conscription draft
1918 : King Oil/Shell refinery on Cura‡ao officially opens
1920 : Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei
1921 : "Shuffle Along" 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC
1922 : "Abie's Irish Rose" 1st of over 2,500 performances
1922 : Harry Greb gave Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat
1922 : Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films
1923 : 1st flight of Sabena: Brussel-Lympne, Great Britain
1926 : Hack Wilson is 1st to hit a home run off Wrigley Field scoreboard
1926 : Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate
1928 : Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die
1931 : Whipsnade Zoo opens in Whipsnade Beds England
1932 : Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman sets 24 hr record of 860 mi, 367 yds
1934 : Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon (polymeer 66)
1939 : British decoration, George Cross, 1st presented
1939 : British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949
1939 : Dmitri Shostakovitch appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad
1939 : Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland
1939 : Submarine Squalis sank off Portsmouth NH, 26 die
1940 : 1st great dogfight between Spitfires
1941 : Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1943 : -24] 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund
1943 : In Dr Faustus, Serenus Zeitblom begins his bio of Adrian Leverkhn
1943 : Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr Faustus
1944 : British/Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo Italy
1944 : Chinese counter offensive at Hunan front
1944 : Operation-Buffalo: Allied jailbreak out Anzio-bridgehead
1945 : British milt police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz
1945 : German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British
1945 : Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader & Chief of Police, committed suicide
1945 : Lord Haw-Haw arrested at Danish boundary
1945 : Winston Churchill resigns as British PM
1947 : PC Hooft prize forms for literature
1948 : Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs
1948 : Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel
1949 : Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day)
1951 : Peter Ustinov's "Love of Four Colonels," premieres in London
1953 : Schools 1st use Cliff's Notes
1953 : WHIZ TV channel 18 in Zanesville, OH (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 : Presbyterian Church begins accepting women ministers
1956 : World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, SF
1958 : Mao Tse tung start "Great leap forward" movement in China
1959 : "Party with Comden & Green" closes at John Golden NYC after 44 perfs
1959 : Presbyterian church accepts women preachers
1960 : "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances
1960 : Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
1960 : WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 : WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan, PR 1st broadcast
1960 : WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (NYC)
1962 : Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio)
1962 : OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life
1962 : Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in US Aurora 7
1965 : Franz Jonas elected president of Austria
1965 : Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawi, kills 150
1966 : Beatles release "Paperback Writer"
1967 : Government bans submarines near South Africa
1968 : Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London
1969 : BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
1969 : Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes
1969 : Who release rock opera "Tommy"
1970 : Grateful Dead's 1st performance outside of US (England)
1970 : SD Padres beat SF Giants 17-16 in 15 innings
1970 : USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
1971 : Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands
1974 : Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 : Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed
1977 : Benin adopts its constitution
1977 : H R Halderman, John Ehrlichman & John Mitchell
1977 : Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren & 50 others hostage on a
1977 : Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers
1977 : hijacked train in Neth, children released May 27, siege ends June 11
1978 : AL approves transfer of Red Sox to Jean Yawkey for $15M
1978 : General strike in Peru
1979 : "Kids Are All Right" premieres
1979 : 1st edition of "Wisden Cricket Monthly"
1979 : Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy
1979 : West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president
1980 : ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Neil Burton
1981 : Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage
1981 : NASA launches Intelsat V
1982 : BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina
1982 : Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles
1982 : Pope John Paul II declares "Peerke" Donders divine
1983 : Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims
1983 : standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air
1986 : US & West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa
1988 : Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990
1989 : 3rd American Comedy Award: Paula Poundstone
1989 : Angela Visser, 22, of Holland, crowned 38th Miss Universe
1989 : Cleve loses & drop to 21-22, this is the latest a sub .500 team is
1989 : Lincoln Square in Bronx named
1989 : in 1st place (AL East)
1990 : Cost of rescuing savings & loan failures is put at up to $130 billion
1990 : Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,856.26
1991 : Last Cubans troops leave Angola
1991 : Phillie Tommy Greene no-hits Mont Expos, 2-0
1991 : San Diego Sockers win 4th consecutive Major Soccer League championship
1991 : US Supreme Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion
1992 : Pres Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees
1994 : 270 pilgrims dies in bustle round Mina Saudi-Arabia
1994 : Roman Herzog elected president of Germany
1994 : Star Trek The Next Generation, finale airs this week in syndication
1995 : 47th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, K Foster (Cubs)/M Freeman (Rocks)
1996 : Fred Norris of the Howard Stern show changes his name legally to Eric
1997 : "King David," closes at New Amsterdam Theater NYC
1997 : Mel Karmazin replaces Peter Lund as CEO of CBS TV

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