Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 23
This is a list of selected May 23 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Giovanni Falcone
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Thomas Cranmer -
Bonnie and Clyde -
William Kidd -
Joan of Arc
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1498 – Girolamo Savonarola, the de facto ruler of Florence was executed for heresy, uttering prophecies, sedition, and other crimes. | refimprove section |
| 1533 – The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer annulled Henry VIII's marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, beginning a chain of events that would culminate in the English Reformation. | refimprove section |
| 1568 – The Dutch Revolt broke out when rebels led by Louis of Nassau invaded Friesland at the Battle of Heiligerlee. | refimprove section, unreferenced section |
| 1618 – In the Second Defenestration of Prague, Protestant members of the Bohemian aristocracy threw Catholic regents of Emperor Ferdinand II out the third-storey window of Prague Castle, precipitating the Thirty Years' War. | refimprove |
| 1701 – Scottish privateer William Kidd was executed for piracy. | multiple issues |
| 1945 – End of World War II in Europe: German president Karl Dönitz was captured and his Flensburg Government was dissolved. | refimprove |
| 1949 – The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany came into effect as the de facto constitution of West Germany. | refimprove |
| 1992 - Italian anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards were killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. | unreferenced section |
| 1995 – The Java programming language by James Gosling and colleagues was officially announced. | refimprove section |
| 2010 – Jamaica's military and police force began a manhunt for drug lord Christopher Coke, beginning three days of armed conflict with the Shower Posse cartel. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1430 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc was captured at the Siege of Compiègne.
- 1844 – Siyyid `Alí-Muhammad Shírází proclaimed that he was "the Báb", after a Shia religious concept, marking the beginning of Bábism, the forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith.
- 1895 – Representatives of the Astor Library and Lenox Library agreed to merge and form the New York Public Library, now the second-largest public library in the United States.
- 1934 – American criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed by police on a desolate road near their hideout in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
- 1934 – During a strike against the Electric Auto-Lite company in Toledo, Ohio, U.S., a mob of nearly 10,000 began a riot and a five-day running battle with the Ohio National Guard.
- 2008 – To resolve a 29-year-old territorial dispute, the International Court of Justice awarded Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca to Singapore.
- Born/died this day: Ruth Fernández (b. 1919) · Heinrich Himmler (d. 1945) · Florence Violet McKenzie (d. 1982)
- 1555 – Giovanni Pietro Carafa became Pope Paul IV, beginning a short but tumultuous papacy, during which the Papal States suffered a serious military defeat.
- 1706 – War of the Spanish Succession: Led by the Duke of Marlborough, the allied forces of England, the Dutch Republic, and Denmark–Norway defeated the Franco-Spanish-Bavarian army in Ramillies, present-day Belgium.
- 1873 – The North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, was established to bring law and order to, and assert Canadian sovereignty over, the Northwest Territories.
- 1951 – Delegates of the 14th Dalai Lama and the government of the newly established People's Republic of China signed the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet, affirming Chinese sovereignty over Tibet.
- 2013 – An oversize load struck several support beams on the bridge carrying Interstate 5 over the Skagit River in the U.S. state of Washington, leading to its immediate collapse (pictured).
Elias Ashmole (b. 1617) · Margaret Fuller (b. 1810) · David Lewis (d. 1981)