The May 23rd is the 143e Jour of the Année (144e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

• 844 : Battle of Clavijo in Spain with an alleged appearance of Holy Jacques Major the. Victoire of Ramire I {{er}}, king of the Asturies on the Moors.

• 1059 : The young person Philippe is crowned with Rheims at the 7 years age (his/her father is sick).
• 1430 : Jeanne d' Arc is stopped in Compiegne by a mercenary with the service of the Duc of Burgundy, Jean of Luxembourg, and is sold to the English for 10.000 books.
• 1431 : A bubble of the Pape Eugene IV authorizes the creation of the Université of Poitiers, wanted by the king Charles VII to reward the fidelity which the Poitou had always shown him.
• 1474 : Giuliano della Rovere, future pope Jules II, is named bishop of Avignon (Vaucluse, France).
• 1498 : Jerome Savonarole, precursor of the Protestant Réforme is carried out with Florence.
• 1555 : Beginning of the Pontificate of Paul IV ( Gian Pietro Carafa ), 223e pope of the Catholic church. (end in 1559).
• 1592 : battle of Craon
• 1618: Défenestration of Prague
• 1658: beginning of the Battle of the Dunes. she opposed the French Armies and English to the Spanish army in front of Dunkirk. She ended the June 23rd same year.
• 1873 : Establishment of the royal Gendarmerie of Canada by the Canadian first-minister John A. Macdonald.

20th century

• 1904 : Creation with Paris of FIFA (International federation of football).

• 1934 : Bonnie and Clyde is cut down in Louisiana
• 1945: The admiral Karl Dönitz, successor designated by Adolf Hitler, is stopped close to Flensburg.
• 1949 : Creation of the the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1956: Colette Duval carries out a freefall of 11.147 meters with opening of the parachute to 250 meters, it is world records.
• 1960 : Removal of Adolf Eichmann in Argentinian by the Israelis to be judged in Israel.
• 1962 : Beginning of the boring of the Subway of Montreal
• 1969: Netherlands: Creation of the Lauwersmeer after the closing of the Lauwerszee
• 1993: First legislative elections free with the Kampuchea.
• 1995 : Official announcement of the Computer programming language Java

21e century

• 2004 : Part of the roof of the terminal 2nd of the Aéroport Roissy-Charles-of-Gaulle crumbles by making five victims.

• 2006 : INSEE announces the most rate of debt of the French.
• 2007 : Exit of the film Pirate of the Caribbean, until the end of the world to the cinema.
• 2007 : The Milan AC gains the Ligue of the Champions of the UEFA vis-a-vis Liverpool over the score of 2 goals to 1.

Births

• 1052 : Philippe Ier, king de France. († July 29th 1108).

• 1654 : Nicodemus Tessin the Young person, Swedish architect († April 10th, 1728).
• 1707 : Carl von Linné, Naturalist Swedish which posed the foundations of the modern Systématique († 1778).
• 1735 : Charles-Joseph de Ligne, 7th prince de Ligne, Prince d' Ambise and prince of the Large Holy roman Empire, of Spain. († December 13rd 1814).
• 1741 : Andrea Luchesi, Italian type-setter († 1801).
• 1790 : Jules Dumont d' Urville, Exploring navigator and French, († 1842)
• 1848: Otto Lilienthal, German Engineer, († 1896).
• 1907 : Ginette Mathiot, author of famous the " I know cuisiner" and Officer of the Legion of Honor († June 14th 1998)
• 1908:
• Helene Butcher, Aviatrice French, († 1934)
• John Bardeen, American Physicist, Nobel Prize of physics in 1956 and 1972, († 1991)
• 1910: Artie Shaw, Clarinettist, Type-setter, Leader of Jazz and American writer, († 2004).
• 1917 : Edward Norton Lorenz, American data processing specialist.
• 1921 : James Blish, writer of science fiction American, († 1975).
• 1924 : Flora Groult, writer French, († 2001).
• 1928 :
• Jean Markale, writer French specialist in the History and the Celtic Literature .
• Rosemary Clooney, American Actress, aunt of the actor Georges Clooney († June 29th 2002).
• 1929 : Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress († August 20th 1982).
• 1933 : Joan Hakes, British Actress .
• 1934 : Robert A. Moog, inventor of the synthetizer († 2005)
• 1938: Edem Kodjo, Togolese Prime Minister.
• 1948 : Myriam Boyer, French actress.
• 1951 : Anatoly Karpov, Russian player of failures.
• 1958 : Thomas Reiter, German spationaut
• 1961: Philippe Cockerel, French politician.
• 1962 : Emilio Muñoz, Spanish Matador .
• 1972 :
• Rubens Barichello, Brazilian runner automobile.
• Isabelle Fijalkowski, French player of basketball
• 1973: Juan Jose Padilla, Spanish Matador .

Death

• 1125 : Henri V, Germanic Roman Emperor with Utrecht

• 1336: Wacław, the duke of Płock.
• 1648 : Louis the Dwarf, French painter.
• 1829 : George Caley, Exploring Botanist and British, (° 1770).
• 1857 : Augustin Louis Cauchy, Mathematician French, (° 1789).
• 1894 : Brian Houghton Hodgson, colonial administrator, Ethnologist and British Naturalist , (° 1800).
• 1906 : Henrik Ibsen, playwright and Norwegian writer . (° March 20th 1828)
• 1908: François Coppée, Poet and Playwright elected with the French Academy, (° 1842).
• 1917 : Ranavalona III, last queen to reign with Madagascar (° November 22nd 1861)
• 1934: Bonnie and Clyde, criminal American. ( Bonnie Parker was born on October 1st 1910, Clyde Barrow was born the March 24th 1909).
• 1937 : John Rockefeller, industrial American. (° July 8th 1839)
• 1945: Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Gestapo of the Nazi Germany (° 1900).
• 1967 : Lionel Groulx, Historian Québécois, (° 1878).
• 1970 : Folco Lulli, Italian Actor.
• 1976 : Louis Merlin, founder of Europe 1.
• 1986 : Altiero Spinelli, appointed European Italian, one of the " Founding fathers " European Union. (° August 31st 1907)
• 1992: Giovanni Falcone, judge anti Maffia. (° May 18th 1939)
• 1992: Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentinian author-type-setter-interpète.
• 1999 : Owen Binder, Canadian professional fighter, (° 1965).
• 2003 : Jean Yanne, Actor, author, Realizer, producing and Type-setter French. (° July 18th 1933)
• 2004: Maxime Rodinson, Historian, Sociologist, Marxist and Self-educated Orientalist . (° January 26th 1915)
• 2006:
• max Meynier, organizer French of radio and television. (° January 30th 1938)
• Philippe Amaury, chairman of the Group Amaury specialized in the press and sports events, (° 1940).

Celebrations

First name

• Didier

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

• Didier de Langres, bishop of Langres († 407)
• Eutyche
• Mercurial
• Quintien
• William Rochester

Catholic saint of the day

• Yves of Chartres († 1115), canon of Saint-Quentin then bishop.

Orthodoxe saints of the day

• Euphrosynie de Polotsk († 1173).
• Païssios de Galitch († 1460).

See too

• May 23rd in sport
• May 23rd in the railroads

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