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What are the important events that happened on May 23? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
May 23: Facts & Myths About This Day
May 23 is the 143rd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 222 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 10, 2022 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 459,240 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectatetracontatrigon’ day.
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Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 244 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 3,440 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 23 Historical Events
- 1498 –Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy, on the orders of Pope Alexander VI.
- 1618 –The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years’ War.
- 1829 –Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna.
- 1945 –World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
- 1951 –Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with the People’s Republic of China.
Who were born on May 23?
- 1887 –Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1963)
- 1898 –Scott O'Dell, American author (d. 1989)
- 1946 –H. Paul Shuch, American SETI scientist
- 1953 –Dick Stellingwerf, Dutch politician
- 1977 –Annabel Kosten, Dutch freestyle swimmer
Who died on May 23?
- 1749 –Graf Valentin Potocki, Polish Jewish nobleman
- 1813 –Geraud Duroc, French general (b. 1772)
- 1981 –George Jessel, American actor (b. 1898)
- 1989 –Karl Koch, West German hacker (b. 1965)
- 2008 –Utah Phillips, American folksinger and activist (b. 1935)
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