On This Day: May 23, 2012
Birthdays:| 1718 | William Hunter, Scottish anatomist | | 1848 | Otto Lilienthal, German glider builder | | 1883 | Douglas Fairbanks Snr, American film star | | 1910 | Scatman Crothers, American actor | | 1918 | Dennis Compton, Cricketer | | 1933 | Joan Collins Actress and soap star | | 1951 | Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player | | 1954 | Marvin Hagler, American boxer |
Events:| 1618 | The Thirty Years War began | | 1886 | Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian playwright, died | | 1887 | The French crown jewels were sold off for six million francs | | 1903 | Rome and Paris were linked by telephone for the first time | | 1904 | European ministers were stoned by mobs, in the Haiti capital Port-Au-Prince | | 1923 | The Belgian airline 'Sabena' was formed | | 1926 | The Lebanon, in the Middle East, became a republic | | 1934 | Bonnie & Clyde, the American bank robbers, were shot dead by Texas Rangers | | 1945 | Hitlers minister, Heinrich Himmler, comitted suicide | | 1997 | Mohammad Khatami is elected as President of Iran | | 2004 | Part of Paris Charles De Gaulle International Airport Terminal 2E collapses, killing five people |
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