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May 23 Birthdays

Margaret Fuller

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)

singer, songwriter (1974)

May 23 in History




South Carolina became the 8th state in United States.


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


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




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


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


The German Federal Republic came into existence.


Moderate Mohammad Khatami was elected president of Iran.

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