This Day in History 23/05
MAY 23RD
1568 – The Netherlands declare independence from Spain.
1785 – Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals
1788 – South Carolina becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution
1813 – South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”)
1844 – Declaration of Bab (Baha’i festival) (‘Azamat 7, 1)
1853 – Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859)
1922 – Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films
1943 – Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr Faustus
1949 – Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day)
1939 – British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949
2000 – Eminem releases 3rd studio album ‘The Marshall Mathers LP’, is fastest ever selling studio album (Grammy – Best Rap Album 2001)
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
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
1908 – John Bardeen, US, physicist (transistor, Nobel 1956, 1972)
1951 – Anatoli Karpov, USSR, world chess champion (1975-85)
1962 – Imran Anwar, Pakistani Internet pioneer and American TV personality
1965 – Manuel Sanchís Hontiyuelo, Real Madrid footballer
1974 – Jewel Kilcher, Payson, Utah, American singer-songwriter (Pieces of You)
1974 – Ken Jennings, American game show contestant
1975 – Kim Sung-soo, South Korean actor
1976 – Ricardinho, Brazilian footballer
FAMOUS DEATHS
1701 – William Kidd, Scottish pirate, hanged at London’s Execution Dock
1786 – Móric Beňovský, Slovak officer and explorer, King of Madagascar (b. 1746)
1886 – Leopold von Ranke, German historian (b. 1795)
1934 – Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush at 23
1934 – Clyde Barrow, outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police
1937 – John Davison Rockfeller, industrialist, dies at 97 in Ormond Beach Fla
1937 – John D Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist, dies at 97
2002 – Sam Snead, American golfer (b. 1912)
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