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