On This Day for May 23 - Tibet annexed by China, Captain Kidd is featured, and more

Created: 2020-05-23 10:04 Updated: 2020-05-23 10:04 Notebook: On this Day in History

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May 23

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Captain Kidd

FEATURED EVENT

1951

Tibet annexed by China

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2015: American mathematician John Nash , who won the 1994 Nobel Prize for Economics for his landmark work on game theory and who struggled with paranoid schizophrenia, died at age 86. [ Test your knowledge of the Nobel Prize.]

2000: American rapper Eminem released The Marshall Mathers LP , which became the fastest-selling album in the history of rap. [Take our hip-hop quiz.]

1934: Bonnie and Clyde, notorious American outlaws, were killed in a police shoot-out near Gibsland, Louisiana. [Test your knowledge of famous outlaws.]

1915: Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary, entering World War I on the side of the Allies. [Sort fact from fiction in our World War I quiz.]

1707: Swedish botanist and explorer Carolus Linnaeus, the first to frame principles for defining genera and species of organisms and to create a uniform system for naming them, was born in Råshult. [ Test your knowledge of botany.]

John Closterman: John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough

1706: Allied (Anglo-Dutch) forces led by the duke of Marlborough recorded a major victory over the French at the Battle of Ramillies, a turning point in the War of the Spanish Succession. [ Match the battle with the war in our quiz.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1928

Rosemary Clooney
American actress and musician

1933

Joan Collins
English actress

1707

Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist

1971

George Osborne
British politician

1912

John Payne
American actor