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Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 23 May.

1. Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians who sold her to English
2. Italian preacher Savonarola tortured & executed in Florence
3. King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null & void
4. Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory
5. Capt Kidd hung in London after convicted of piracy & murder
6. SC becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution
7. Decl of Bab (Bah '¡ festival)
8. Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859)
9. Postal Cards sold in SF for 1st time
10. Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established
11. 1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from SF
12. 1st direct primary election law adopted - by Wisconsin
13. 1st automobile trip across US from SF to NY - ended April 1
14. Dirigible explodes over SF Bay - 16 passengers fall - none die
15. NY Public Library building at Fifth Avenue dedicated by Pres Taft
16. Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in WW I
17. Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films
18. Bonnie & Clyde shot in Louisana ambush
19. Industrialist John D Rockfeller died in Ormond Beach Fla
20. Nazi Himmler committed suicide while in prison at Luneburg Germany
21. Joe DiMaggio hits three consecutive HRs
22. West Germany was proclaimed
23. World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building
24. Israel announced capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
25. Scott Carpenter orbits Earth three times in US Aurora 7
26. Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio)

These famous people were born on 23 May.

1. 1707 - Carolus Linn‘us, biological classifier, sweden
2. 1734 - Friedrich Anton Mesmer, German physician, hypnotist
3. 1844 - Abdu'l-Bah,, early Bah '¡ leader
4. 1883 - Douglas Fairbanks, 1st & greatest of Hollywood's swashbucklers
5. 1891 - Par Lagerkvist, Swedish novelist, poet, dramatist (Nobel 1951)
6. 1903 - Walter Reisch, US screenwriter (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic)
7. 1908 - John Bardeen, physicist (Nobel 1956, 1972)
8. 1910 - Artie Shaw (Arthur Arshawsky), band leader and husband
9. 1919 - Betty Garrett, in St Joseph Mo
10. 1923 - Alicia de Larrocha, Pianist
11. 1928 - Rosemary Clooney, in Kentucky, singer
12. 1931 - Barbara Barrie, in Chicago
13. 1933 - Joan Collins, in London, Actress
14. 1943 - John Newcombe, Australian tennis pro
15. 1949 - Alan Garc¡a Perez, pres of Peru (1985-, )
16. 1951 - Anatoliy Karpov, of USSR, world chess champion (1975-85)
17. 1952 - Boxer Marvelous Marvin Hagler, in NJ