May 23: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1568 - The Netherlands declare their independence from Spain.
2. 1609 - Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.
3. 1788 - South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the 8th American state.
4. 1829 - Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire.
5. 1911 - The New York Public Library is dedicated.
6. 1915 - World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
7. 1934 - The American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.
8. 1951 - Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with China.
9. 1958 - Explorer 1 ceases transmission.
10. 1995 - The first version of the Java programming language is released.
11. Famous Birthdays: Carl Linnaeus (Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist), Pär Lagerkvist (Swedish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate), John Bardeen (American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate ), Edward Norton Lorenz (American mathematician and meteorologist), Joshua Lederberg (American biologist, Nobel Prize laureate)

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