May 23
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[edit] Events
- 1430 - Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne
- 1568 - Netherlands declared independence from Spain
- 1701 - After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
- 1813 - South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator").
- 1846 - Mexican-American War: Mexico declares war on the United States.
- 1873 - The Canadian Parliament establishes the North West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- 1949 - The Federal Republic of Germany is established
[edit] Births
- 1824 - Ambrose Burnside, American Union Civil War general (d. 1881)
- 1896 - Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (d. 1966)
- 1900 - Hans Frank, NSDAP lawyer (d. 1946)
- 1926 - Joe Slovo, South African communist politician (d. 1995)
- 1951 - Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
[edit] Deaths
- 1868 - Kit Carson, American trapper, scout, and Indian agent (b. 1809)
- 1906 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer (b. 1828)
- 1937 - John D. Rockefeller, American entrepreneur (b. 1839)
- 1945 - Heinrich Himmler, NSDAP official (b. 1900)
- 2006 - Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (b. 1921)
