23 Mey

The 23rd o Mey is the 143rd day o the year (144t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 222 days ti come.

 Events 
 1568 - The Netherlands declare unthirldom frae Spain.
 1618 - The seicont Defenestration o Prague leads tae the Thirty Years' War.
 1788 - Sooth Carolina becomes the 8t state tae ratify the Unitit States Constitution.
 1844 - Declaration o the Bab in the Baha'i faith.
 1915 - Warld War I: Italy jyns the Allies.
 1945 - Nazi offeecial Heinrich Himmler commits suicide.
 1949 - The Federal Republic o Germany (then-Wast Germany) is foondit.
 1994 - Roman Herzog is electit Preses o Germany.
 1998 - The Guid Fryday Agreement is supportit bi 75% o voters in Northren Ireland in a referendum.
 1999 - Johannes Rau is electit Preses o Germany.
 2002 - Iceland ratifies the Kyoto Protocol.
 2009 - Umwhile Sooth Korean Preses Roh Moo-hyun commits suicide.
 2014 - The Glesga Schuil o Airt, designed bi Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is heavily damaged bi fire; it suffers a seicont major fire in Juin 2018.
 2016 - Bomb attacks in Wastren Sirie kill at least 100 fowk.
 2019 - Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Pairty wins a pairlamentar majority in Indie's general election.
 2019 - The Unitit Kinrick pairteecipates in the European Pairlament election, aicht weeks efter the oreeginal planned date for the kintra's exit frae the European Union.

 Births 
 1052 - Philip I o Fraunce (d. 1108)
 1707 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (d. 1778)
 1718 - William Hunter, Scots anatomist an medicinar (d. 1783)
 1790 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, French splorer (d. 1842)
 1848 - Otto Lilienthal, German aviator (d. 1896)
 1883 - Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (d. 1939)
 1897 - Jimmie Guthrie, Scots motorcycle racer (d. 1937)
 1900 - Hans Frank, German Nazi politeecian (d. 1946)
 1908 - John Bardeen, American pheesicist an ingineer (d. 1991)
 1925 - Joshua Lederberg, American biochemist (d. 2008)
 1928 - Rosemary Clooney, American sangster an actress (d. 2002)
 1933 - Joan Collins, Inglis actress
 1949 - Alan Garcia, Preses o Peru (d. 2019)
 1950 - Martin McGuinness, Northren Erse politeecian (d. 2017)
 1951 - Anatoly Karpov, Roushie chess player
 1956 - Ian Wallace, Scots fitbawer
 1958 - Drew Carey, American actor, comedian an telly host
 1971 - George Osborne, Inglis politeecian
 1972 - Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian racin driver
 1976 - Stephen Glass, Scots fitbawer
 1985 - Ross Wallace, Scots fitbawer
 1991 - Lena Meyer-Landrut, German sangster

 Daiths 
 1125 - Henry V, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 1081)
 1498 - Girolamo Savonarola, Italian Dominican friar (b. 1452)
 1857 - Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathemateecian (b. 1789)
 1906 - Henrik Ibsen, Norse writer an playwricht (b. 1828)
 1937 - John D. Rockefeller, American businessman (b. 1839)
 1945 - Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi war creeminal (b. 1900)
 2009 - Roh Moo-hyun, Preses o Sooth Korea (b. 1946)
 2015 - John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathemateecian (b. 1928)
 2017 - Roger Moore, Inglis actor (b. 1927)
 2019 - Joseph Devine, Roman Catholic Bishop o Mitherwall (b. 1937)

 Halidays 
 Students' Day (Mexico)
 Labour Day (Jamaica)
 Warld Turtle Day

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Category:Days o the year