History Events on May 23

In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a manifestation against the Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas, which resulted in the outbreak of the Constitutionalist Revolution several weeks later.

#Brazil

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy at the Battle of Ramillies.

#John_Churchill,_1st_Duke_of_Marlborough

Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.

#Bank_robbery

The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

#North-West_Mounted_Police

Mexican-American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.

#Mexican-American_War

Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.

#Stratovolcano

At least 46 people are killed as a result of floods caused by a tornado in Texas and Oklahoma.

#2015_Texas-Oklahoma_flood_and_tornado_outbreak

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law in Mindanao, following the Maute's attack in Marawi.

#Rodrigo_Duterte

The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.

#Kyoto_Protocol

American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.

#American_Civil_War

Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire.

#Accordion

Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.

#Battle_of_Famars

The New York Public Library is dedicated.

#New_York_Public_Library

Official ratification of the Second Virginia Charter takes place.

#Second_Virginia_Charter

Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg, and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War.

#Louis_of_Nassau

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

After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.

#Piracy

A tsunami caused by an earthquake in Chile the previous day kills 61 people in Hilo, Hawaii.

#Tsunami

Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.

#Girolamo_Savonarola

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

World War II: The Flensburg Government under Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are captured and arrested by British forces.

#Flensburg_Government

Declaration of the Báb the evening before the 23rd: A merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith; Bahá'ís celebrate the day as a holy day.

#Báb

Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to raise the Siege of Compiègne.

#Joan_of_Arc

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.

#United_States_Navy

Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.

#Thomas_C._Wasson

The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.

#List_of_English_monarchs

World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.

#World_War_I

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_killings

The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with roughly 75% voting yes.

#Good_Friday_Agreement

British nuclear testing in the United States of nuclear test Fallon for Chevaline under the Polaris (UK nuclear programme), named after the South African Roan antelope in the London zoo, on request of Lord Carrington.

#British_nuclear_testing_in_the_United_States

Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with China.

#Tibet

Cold War: The Western occupying powers approve the Basic Law and establish a new German state, the Federal Republic of Germany.

#Allied-occupied_Germany

World War II: Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody.

#World_War_II

South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state.

#South_Carolina

Eight bombings were carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Jableh and Tartus, coastline cities in Syria. One hundred eighty-four people were killed and at least 200 people injured.

Two suicide bombings, conducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, killed at least 45 potential army recruits in Aden, Yemen.

A freeway bridge carrying Interstate 5 over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington.

The first version of the Java programming language is released.

The Auto-Lite strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.

The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.

The General German Workers' Association, a precursor of the modern Social Democratic Party of Germany, is founded in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony.

The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War.