May 23, 2013
Today is 143rd day of the year
223 days remain until the new year
223 days remain until the new year
Births Today
- 1718 - "William Hunter, Scottish anatomist"
- 1848 - "Otto Lilienthal, German glider builder"
- 1883 - "Douglas Fairbanks Snr, American film star"
- 1910 - "Scatman Crothers, American actor"
- 1918 - "Dennis Compton, Cricketer"
- 1921 - "Humphrey Lyttleton, Jazz musician"
- 1933 - Joan Collins Actress and soap star
- 1954 - "Marvin Hagler, American boxer"
events today
- 1618 - The Thirty Years War began
- 1886 - "Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian playwright, died"
- 1887 - The French crown jewels were sold off for six million francs
- 1903 - Rome and Paris were linked by telephone for the first time
- 1904 - "European ministers were stoned by mobs, in the Haiti capital Port-Au-Prince"
- 1923 - The Belgian airline 'Sabena' was formed
- 1926 - "The Lebanon, in the Middle East, became a republic"
- 1927 - "Charles Linbergh, the US aviator, was awarded the Legion Of Honour by the French"
- 1934 - "Bonnie & Clyde, the American bank robbers, were shot dead by Texas Rangers"
- 1945 - "Hitlers minister, Heinrich Himmler, comitted suicide"