May 23<\/p>\n
1430 \u2013 Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to raise the Siege of Compi\u00e8gne.<\/p>\n
1609 \u2013 The Second Virginia Charter a ” further Enlargement and Explanation of the said Grant, Privileges, and Liberties”<\/em>, for the London Company\u00a0 is ratified, more than doubling the area granted from the first charter.<\/p>\n 1701 \u2013 After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.<\/p>\n 1788 \u2013 South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the 8th American state.<\/p>\n 1846 \u2013 In response to the U.S. declaration of war on the 13th, Mexican President Mariano Paredes reciprocates with his first manifesto of defense.<\/p>\n 1895 \u2013 The libraries of the Astor and Lenox\u00a0 Foundations are merged, and using the funds of the Tilden Trust, form and build the New York Public Library.<\/p>\n 1900 \u2013 Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in the Assault on Battery Wagner in 1863, the first action where a black soldier would be awarded the Medal.<\/p>\n 1932 \u2013 In Brazil, 4 students are shot and killed during a protest against the Brazilian dictator Get\u00falio Vargas, which resulted in the outbreak of the Constitutionalist Revolution several weeks later.<\/p>\n 1934 \u2013 Bank robbers and murderers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.<\/p>\n 1939 \u2013 The U.S. Navy’s Sargo<\/em> class submarine, USS Squalus<\/em> sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive with the loss 26 of 59 sailors and civilian technicians aboard.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 Heinrich Himmler, head of the Nazi SS\u00a0 – Schutzstaffel –\u00a0 cheats the hangman, committing suicide by taking cyanide after being detained for investigation of his false identity documents by British forces.<\/p>\n 1949 \u2013 The Western occupying powers approve the ‘Basic Law’,\u00a0 Grundgesetz f\u00fcr die Bundesrepublik Deutschland<\/em>, which establishes a new German state, the Federal Republic of Germany.<\/p>\n 1960 \u2013 A tsunami caused by an 9.5 Moment Scale earthquake in Chile the previous day hits Hilo, Hawaii, killing 61 people.<\/p>\n 1995 \u2013 Sun Microsystems in\u00a0 Menlo Park, California releases the first version of the Java programming language.<\/p>\n 2006 \u2013\u00a0 Mount Cleveland on the western end of Chuginadak Island of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, erupts.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 A freeway bridge carrying Interstate Highway 5 over the Skagit River at Mount Vernon, Washington, collapses, precipitating 2 vehicles into the river, but with all 3 riders rescued.<\/p>\n 2014 \u2013 6 people are killed and 14 wounded by gunshot, stabbing and vehicle ramming in a killing spree by a lone perpetrator near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara before being shot by police, then committing suicide.<\/p>\n 2015 \u2013 46 people are killed in Texas and Oklahoma as a result of flooding caused by an extensive storm system moving through the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 23 1430 \u2013 Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to raise the Siege of Compi\u00e8gne. 1609 \u2013 The Second Virginia Charter a ” further Enlargement and Explanation of the said Grant, Privileges, and Liberties”, for the London Company\u00a0 is ratified, more than doubling the area granted from the … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68207"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93067,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68207\/revisions\/93067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}