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May 23, 2003 Stanley Cup Finals, New Jersey Devils beat Ottawa Senators 4 games to 3 May 23, 1997 "King David," closes at New Amsterdam Theater New York City May 23, 1997 Mel Karmazin replaces Peter Lund as CEO of CBS TV May 23, 1996 Fred Norris of the Howard Stern show changes his name legally to Eric May 23, 1995 47th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, K Foster (Cubs)/M Freeman (Rocks) May 23, 1994 270 pilgrims dies in bustle round Mina Saudi-Arabia May 23, 1994 Roman Herzog elected president of Germany May 23, 1994 Star Trek The Next Generation, finale airs this week in syndication May 23, 1993 Val Skinner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open May 23, 1992 New York Yankees play in their 4th straight extra inning game May 23, 1992 President Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees May 23, 1991 Last Cubans troops leave Angola May 23, 1991 Phillie Tommy Greene no-hits Mont Expos, 2-0 May 23, 1991 San Diego Sockers win 4th consecutive Major Soccer League championship May 23, 1991 U.S. Supreme Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion May 23, 1990 A. 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Milan wins 35th Europe Cup 1 at Vienna May 23, 1990 Cost of rescuing savings and loan failures is put at up to $130 billion May 23, 1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,856.26 May 23, 1990 New York Yankees hit 6 home runs to beat Minnesota Twins 12-0 May 23, 1989 3rd American Comedy Award: Paula Poundstone May 23, 1989 Angela Visser, 22, of Holland, crowned 38th Miss Universe May 23, 1989 Lincoln Square in Bronx named May 23, 1989 Cleveland loses and drop to 21-22, this is the latest a sub .500 team is in 1st place (AL East) May 23, 1988 Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990 May 23, 1986 U.S. and West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa May 23, 1984 Anderlecht wins 13th UEFA Cup at London May 23, 1984 Detroit Tigers win AL record tying 16th straight road game May 23, 1983 Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air May 23, 1982 BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina May 23, 1982 Cathy Morse wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Classic May 23, 1982 Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles May 23, 1982 Pope John Paul II declares "Peerke" Donders divine May 23, 1981 Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage May 23, 1981 NASA launches Intelsat V May 23, 1980 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Neil Burton May 23, 1979 "Kids Are All Right" premieres May 23, 1979 1st edition of "Wisden Cricket Monthly" May 23, 1979 Borussia Monchengladbach wins 8th UEFA Cup at Dusseldorf May 23, 1979 Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy May 23, 1979 West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president May 23, 1978 AL approves transfer of Red Sox to Jean Yawkey for $15M May 23, 1978 General strike in Peru May 23, 1977 Benin adopts its constitution May 23, 1977 Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell May 23, 1977 Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren and 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Neth, children released May 27, siege ends June 11 May 23, 1976 Amy Alcott wins '76 LPGA Golf Classic May 23, 1974 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site May 23, 1974 Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed May 23, 1971 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationalionale May 23, 1971 Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands May 23, 1970 Grateful Dead's in England, 1st performance outside of U.S. May 23, 1970 San Diego Padres beat San Francisco Giants 17-16 in 15 innings May 23, 1970 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test (underground) May 23, 1969 BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus May 23, 1969 Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes May 23, 1969 Who release rock opera "Tommy" May 23, 1968 A. 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Milan wins 8th Europe Cup II in Rotterdam May 23, 1968 Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London May 23, 1967 Government bans submarines near South Africa May 23, 1966 Beatles release "Paperback Writer" May 23, 1965 Franz Jonas elected president of Austria May 23, 1965 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open May 23, 1965 Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawi, kills 150 May 23, 1964 Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45) May 23, 1963 NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000 May 23, 1962 Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee to hit 2 home runs in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio) May 23, 1962 OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life May 23, 1962 Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in U.S. Aurora 7 May 23, 1960 "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 12 performances May 23, 1960 "Got A Girl" by The Four Preps hits #24 May 23, 1960 Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina May 23, 1960 WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting May 23, 1960 WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan, PR 1st broadcast May 23, 1960 WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (New York City) May 23, 1959 "Party with Comden and Green" closes at John Golden New York City after 44 performances May 23, 1959 Presbyterian church accepts women preachers May 23, 1958 Mao Tse tung start "Great leap forward" movement in China May 23, 1956 World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, San Francisco May 23, 1955 Presbyterian Church begins accepting women ministers May 23, 1953 79th Preakness: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 1:57.8 May 23, 1953 Schools 1st use Cliff's Notes May 23, 1953 WHIZ TV channel 18 in Zanesville, OH (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting May 23, 1951 Peter Ustinov's "Love of Four Colonels," premieres in London May 23, 1949 Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day) May 23, 1948 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs May 23, 1948 Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel May 23, 1947 PC Hooft prize forms for literature May 23, 1945 British milt police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz May 23, 1945 German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British May 23, 1945 Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader and Chief of Police, committed suicide May 23, 1945 Lord Haw-Haw arrested at Danish boundary May 23, 1945 Winston Churchill resigns as British PM May 23, 1944 British/Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo Italy May 23, 1944 Chinese counter offensive at Hunan front May 23, 1944 Operation-Buffalo: Allied jailbreak out Anzio-bridgehead May 23, 1944 Polo Grounds host 1st New York City night game since 1941 May 23, 1943 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund May 23, 1943 In Dr. Faustus, Serenus Zeitblom begins his bio of Adrian Leverkuhn May 23, 1943 Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr. Faustus May 23, 1941 Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title May 23, 1941 Rudolf Harbig runs world record 1k (2:21.5) May 23, 1940 1st great dogfight between Spitfires May 23, 1939 British decoration, George Cross, 1st presented May 23, 1939 British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949 May 23, 1939 Dmitri Shostakovitch appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad May 23, 1939 Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland May 23, 1939 Submarine Squalis sank off Portsmouth NH, 26 die May 23, 1935 1st scheduled night game, postponed due to rain (Cincinnati) May 23, 1934 Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon (polymeer 66) May 23, 1932 Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman sets 24 hr record of 860 mi, 367 yds May 23, 1931 Whipsnade Zoo opens in Whipsnade Beds England May 23, 1928 Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die May 23, 1926 Hack Wilson is 1st to hit a home run off Wrigley Field scoreboard May 23, 1926 Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate May 23, 1923 1st flight of Sabena: Brussel-Lympne, Great Britain May 23, 1922 "Abie's Irish Rose" 1st of over 2,500 performances May 23, 1922 Harry Greb gave Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat May 23, 1922 Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films May 23, 1921 "Shuffle Along" 1st black musical comedy, opens in New York City May 23, 1920 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei May 23, 1918 King Oil/Shell refinery on Curacao officially opens May 23, 1917 Dutch 2nd Chamber okays 1908 conscription draft May 23, 1916 Heavy battles at Fort Douaumont Verdun May 23, 1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary and Germany during WW I May 23, 1911 New York Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft May 23, 1908 Dirigible explodes over San Francisco Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die May 23, 1908 Part of Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Washington May 23, 1903 1st automobile trip across U.S. from San Francisco to New York, ended April 1 May 23, 1903 1st direct primary election law in U.S. adopted, by Wisconsin May 23, 1901 35th Belmont: H Spencer aboard Commando wins in 2:21 May 23, 1901 Indians score 9 runs after 2 outs in 9th to beat Senators 14-13 May 23, 1901 Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent May 23, 1901 U.S. captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo May 23, 1900 Associated Press News Service forms in New York May 23, 1898 1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco May 23, 1894 William Love hosts ground breaking ceremonies for Love Canal May 23, 1887 1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver, BC May 23, 1884 12th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Knight of Ellerslie wins in 2:39 May 23, 1883 9th Kentucky Derby: William Donohue aboard Leonatus wins in 2:43 May 23, 1883 Baseball game between one-armed and one-legged players May 23, 1882 6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa May 23, 1878 Atty John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia May 23, 1876 1st NL no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston) May 23, 1873 1st Preakness: G Barbee aboard Survivor wins in 2:43 May 23, 1873 Canada's North West Mounted Police Force (RCMPF) forms May 23, 1873 Postal cards sold in San Francisco for 1st time May 23, 1867 Jesse James-gang rob bank in Richmond Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken) May 23, 1865 Flag flown at full staff over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot May 23, 1865 Grand Review begins in Washington D.C. May 23, 1864 Battle of Dallas, Georgia May 23, 1864 Battle of North Anna, Va, 1st of 3 days of fighting May 23, 1862 Battle at Front Royal, Virginia May 23, 1862 Valley Campaign-Stonewall Jackson takes Ft. Royal, Virginia May 23, 1861 3 fleeing slaves enter Fort Monroe Virginia May 23, 1861 Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession May 23, 1853 Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859) May 23, 1844 Declaration of Bab (Baha'i festival) ('Azamat 7, 1) May 23, 1788 South Carolina becomes 8th state to ratify U.S. constitution May 23, 1785 Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals May 23, 1774 Chestertown tea party occurs (tea dumped into Chester River) May 23, 1750 Carlo Goldoni's "Il Bugiardo," premieres in Mantua May 23, 1706 Battle of Ramillies-Marlborough defeats French; 17,000 killed May 23, 1667 King Afonso VI of Portugal flees May 23, 1660 King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England May 23, 1647 Willem II sworn in as viceroy of Holland May 23, 1644 Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists May 23, 1618 2nd Defenestration of Prague; beginning of 30 Years War May 23, 1618 Imperial civil servants thrown out a window of Prague Castle May 23, 1611 Matthias von Habsburg chosen king of Bohemia May 23, 1576 Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory May 23, 1568 Battle at Heiligerlee: Dutch rebels beat Spanish, 100s killed May 23, 1555 Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV May 23, 1544 German emperor Charles V recognizes king Christian III of Denmark May 23, 1536 Pope Paul III installs Portugese inquisition May 23, 1533 King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null and void May 23, 1493 King Charles VIII and Maximilian I of Austria signs Peace of Senlis May 23, 1430 Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne and sold to the British May 23, 1421 Jews of Austria imprisoned and expelled May 23, 1420 Jews of Syria and Austria expelled May 23, 1275 King Edward I of England orders cessation of persecution of French Jews May 23, 1059 Henri I crowns his son compassionate King Philip I of France |