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Thursday, May 23, 2013

This will be 143rd day of the year and 222 days will remain in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 14 Sivan 5773
Chinese calendar — the 14th day of the 4th month of 4711 (Kui Si)
Islamic calendar — (note)

May 23 Birthdays

Margaret Fuller
1810–50, American writer and lecturer, born in Cambridgeport (now part of Cambridge), Mass.

Carolus Linnaeus
botanist (1707)

Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr.
businessman and philanthropist (1875)

Douglas Fairbanks
actor (1883)

John Bardeen
physicist (1908)

Anatoly Karpov
chess master (1951)

Jewel
singer, songwriter (1974)

May 2013

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5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

May 23 in History

1430

Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians and subsequently sold to the English.

1788

South Carolina became the 8th state in United States.

1830

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad began the first passenger service in the United States.

1873

The North West Mounted Police force was formed in Canada. It would later be known as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

1911

The New York Public Library, at the time the largest marble structure ever built in the United States, was dedicated by President Taft in New York City after 16 years of construction.

1934

Bonnie (Parker) and Clyde (Barrow) were killed in a police shootout.

1945

Heinrich Himmler, head of Adolf Hitler’s Gestapo, committed suicide while in prison.

1949

The German Federal Republic came into existence.

1997

Moderate Mohammad Khatami was elected president of Iran.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.