May 23
1430
Joan of Arc is captured by the
Burgundians while leading an army to raise the
Siege of Compiθgne.
1701 After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore,
Captain William Kidd is hanged in London, England.
1934 The American bank robbers
Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
1939 The U.S. Navy submarine
USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.
1945 World War II:
Heinrich Himmler, the head of the
Schutzstaffel (SS), commits suicide while in Allied custody.
1958 The satellite
Explorer 1 ceases transmission.
1995 The first version of the
Java programming language is released.
2004 Part of Paris'
Charles de Gaulle Airport's
Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others.
2010 Jamaican police begin a manhunt for drug lord
Christopher Coke, after the United States requested his extradition, leading to
three days of violence during which at least 73 gunmen, policemen and bystanders are killed.
2013 The
Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington.
2014 Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed and another 14 injured in a
killing spree near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara.
2015 At least 46 people are killed as a result of floods caused by a tornado in Texas and Oklahoma.
If anyone could explain to me how a tornado can cause a flood, I'd be interested to hear them out.
Births
1707 Carl Linnaeus; 1820 James Buchanan Eads; 1824 Ambrose Burnside; 1883 Douglas Fairbanks; 1910 Scatman Crothers, Artie Shaw; 1912 John Payne; 1928 Rosemary Clooney; 1931 Barbara Barrie; 1933 Joan Collins; 1934 Robert Moog (invented the
Moog synthesizer); 1936 Charles Kimbrough (anchorman on "Murphy Brown"); 1942 Zalman King; 1946 Michael Morrison (porn actor); 1954 Marvin Hagler; 1956 Buck Showalter; 1958 Mitch Albom, Drew Carey; 1961 Karen Duffy ('Duff', MTV vj); 1963 Wally Dallenbach Jr.; 1973 Maxwell; 1974 Jewel, Ken Jennings
Deaths
1701 William Kidd; 1868 Kit Carson; 1906 Henrik Ibsen; 1934 Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker; 1937 John D. Rockefeller; 1945 Heinrich Himmler; 1975 Moms Mabley; 1981 George Jessel; 1986 Sterling Hayden; 1994
Joe Pass; 1999 Owen Hart; 2002 Sam Snead