23 May
Notable Births
Alexandra Eala
b. 2005
Filipino tennis player (born 2005)
Brennan Johnson
b. 2001
Wales international footballer (born 2001)
Felipe Drugovich
b. 2000
Brazilian racing driver (born 2000)
Israel Reyes
b. 2000
Mexican footballer (born 2000)
James Charles
b. 1999
American internet personality (born 1999)
Sandro Mamukelashvili
b. 1999
Georgian basketball player (born 1999)
Sérgio Sette Câmara
b. 1998
Brazilian racing driver (born 1998)
Salwa Eid Naser
b. 1998
Bahraini sprinter
Luca de la Torre
b. 1998
American soccer player (born 1998)
Pedro Chirivella
b. 1997
Spanish footballer (born 1997)
Joe Gomez
b. 1997
English footballer (born 1997)
Maximilian Kilman
b. 1997
English footballer (born 1997)
Gustaf Nilsson (footballer, born 1997)
b. 1997
Swedish footballer (born 1997)
Sam Timmins
b. 1997
New Zealand basketball player (born 1997)
Katharina Schmid
b. 1996
German ski jumper (born 1996)
Răzvan Marin
b. 1996
Romanian footballer (born 1996)
Çağlar Söyüncü
b. 1996
Turkish footballer (born 1996)
Laerte do Vando
b. 1992
Brazilian politician (born 1992)
H. Jon Benjamin
b. 1966
American actor and comedian (born 1966)
Joan Collins
b. 1933
English actress and writer (born 1933)
Notable Deaths
Morgan Spurlock
d. 2024
American filmmaker (1970–2024)
Ron Hill
d. 2021
British long-distance runner (1938–2021)
Eric Carle
d. 2021
American author and illustrator (1929–2021)
Hana Kimura
d. 2020
Japanese joshi puroresu wrestler (1997–2020)
Roger Moore
d. 2017
English actor (1927–2017)
John Forbes Nash Jr.
d. 2015
American mathematician and Nobel Laureate (1928–2015)
Anne Meara
d. 2015
American comedian and actress (1929–2015)
Aleksey Mozgovoy
d. 2015
Pro-Russian rebel and warlord in Eastern Ukraine
Alicia Nash
d. 2015
Salvadoran-American physicist (1933–2015)
Mikhail Alekseev (linguist)
d. 2014
Epy Guerrero
d. 2013
Georges Moustaki
d. 2013
Musical artist
Flynn Robinson
d. 2013
American basketball player (1941–2013)
Paul Fussell
d. 2012
American cultural and literary historian (1924–2012)
Xavier Tondo
d. 2011
Spanish cyclist (1978–2011)
José Lima
d. 2010
Dominican baseball player (1972–2010)
Simon Monjack
d. 2010
English screenwriter, film director and producer (1970–2010)
Bonnie and Clyde
d. 1934
American bank robbers in the 1930s
Bonnie and Clyde
d. 1934
American bank robbers in the 1930s
Henrik Ibsen
d. 1906
Norwegian playwright (1828–1906)
On This Day in History
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2022
Anthony Albanese of the Australian Labor Party is sworn in as the 31st Prime Minister of Australia after winning the 2022 Australian federal election, ending 9 years of conservative rule.
Anthony Albanese
2021
A cable car falls from a mountain near Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, killing 14 people.
Stresa–Mottarone cable car crash
2021
Ryanair Flight 4978 is forced to land by Belarusian authorities to detain dissident journalist Roman Protasevich.
Ryanair Flight 4978
2017
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declares martial law in Mindanao, following the Maute's attack in Marawi.
Rodrigo Duterte
2016
Two suicide bombings, conducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, kill at least 45 potential army recruits in Aden, Yemen.
Islamic State
2016
Eight bombings are carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Jableh and Tartus, coastline cities in Syria. One hundred eighty-four people are killed and at least 200 people injured.
Islamic State
2015
At least 30 people are killed as a result of floods and tornadoes in Texas, Oklahoma, and northern Mexico.
Tornado outbreak and floods of May 23–26, 2015
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.
2014 Isla Vista attacks
2013
A freeway bridge carrying Interstate 5 over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington.
Interstate 5 in Washington
2008
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.
International Court of Justice
2006
Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.
Stratovolcano
2002
The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
Kyoto Protocol
1998
The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with roughly 75% voting yes.
Good Friday Agreement
1995
The first version of the Java programming language is released.
Java (programming language)
1992
Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than two months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions.
Giovanni Falcone
1991
Aeroflot Flight 8556 crashes at Pulkovo Airport, killing 13.
Aeroflot Flight 8556
1980
The Shining, the psychological horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick, is premiered on 10 screens in New York City and Los Angeles on the Memorial Day weekend.
The Shining (film)
1978
A Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near the Russian town of Yegoryevsk, killing two.
Tupolev Tu-144
1971
Seventy-eight people are killed when Aviogenex Flight 130 crashes on approach to Rijeka Airport in present-day Rijeka, Croatia (then the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).
Aviogenex Flight 130
1971
The Intercontinental Hotel in Bucharest opens, becoming the second-tallest building in the city.
Grand Hotel Bucharest