The 23rd o Mey is the 143rd day o the year (144t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 222 days ti come.
| Aprile | Days in Mey | Juin |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | ||
- 1568 - The Netherlands declare unthirldom frae Spain.
- 1618 - The seicont Defenestration o Prague leads tae the Thirty Years' War.
- 1788 - Sooth Carolina becomes the 8t state tae ratify the Unitit States Constitution.
- 1844 - Declaration o the Bab in the Baha'i faith.
- 1915 - Warld War I: Italy jyns the Allies.
- 1945 - Nazi offeecial Heinrich Himmler commits suicide.
- 1949 - The Federal Republic o Germany (then-Wast Germany) is foondit.
- 1994 - Roman Herzog is electit Preses o Germany.
- 1998 - The Guid Fryday Agreement is supportit bi 75% o voters in Northren Ireland in a referendum.
- 1999 - Johannes Rau is electit Preses o Germany.
- 2002 - Iceland ratifies the Kyoto Protocol.
- 2009 - Umwhile Sooth Korean Preses Roh Moo-hyun commits suicide.
- 2014 - The Glesga Schuil o Airt, designed bi Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is heavily damaged bi fire; it suffers a seicont major fire in Juin 2018.
- 2016 - Bomb attacks in Wastren Sirie kill at least 100 fowk.
- 2019 - Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Pairty wins a pairlamentar majority in Indie's general election.
- 2019 - The Unitit Kinrick pairteecipates in the European Pairlament election, aicht weeks efter the oreeginal planned date for the kintra's exit frae the European Union.
- 1052 - Philip I o Fraunce (d. 1108)
- 1707 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (d. 1778)
- 1718 - William Hunter, Scots anatomist an medicinar (d. 1783)
- 1790 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, French splorer (d. 1842)
- 1848 - Otto Lilienthal, German aviator (d. 1896)
- 1883 - Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (d. 1939)
- 1897 - Jimmie Guthrie, Scots motorcycle racer (d. 1937)
- 1900 - Hans Frank, German Nazi politeecian (d. 1946)
- 1908 - John Bardeen, American pheesicist an ingineer (d. 1991)
- 1925 - Joshua Lederberg, American biochemist (d. 2008)
- 1928 - Rosemary Clooney, American sangster an actress (d. 2002)
- 1933 - Joan Collins, Inglis actress
- 1949 - Alan Garcia, Preses o Peru (d. 2019)
- 1950 - Martin McGuinness, Northren Erse politeecian (d. 2017)
- 1951 - Anatoly Karpov, Roushie chess player
- 1956 - Ian Wallace, Scots fitbawer
- 1958 - Drew Carey, American actor, comedian an telly host
- 1971 - George Osborne, Inglis politeecian
- 1972 - Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian racin driver
- 1976 - Stephen Glass, Scots fitbawer
- 1985 - Ross Wallace, Scots fitbawer
- 1991 - Lena Meyer-Landrut, German sangster
- 1125 - Henry V, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 1081)
- 1498 - Girolamo Savonarola, Italian Dominican friar (b. 1452)
- 1857 - Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathemateecian (b. 1789)
- 1906 - Henrik Ibsen, Norse writer an playwricht (b. 1828)
- 1937 - John D. Rockefeller, American businessman (b. 1839)
- 1945 - Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi war creeminal (b. 1900)
- 2009 - Roh Moo-hyun, Preses o Sooth Korea (b. 1946)
- 2015 - John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathemateecian (b. 1928)
- 2017 - Roger Moore, Inglis actor (b. 1927)
- 2019 - Joseph Devine, Roman Catholic Bishop o Mitherwall (b. 1937)
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