History for May 23

History for May 23 - On-This-Day.com
Scatman Crothers (Benjamin Sherman "Scatman" Crothers) 1910 - Actor, musician, singer, dancer, Joan Collins 1933 - Actress ("Dynasty"), Robert Moog 1934 - Musician, 


Lauren Chapin 1945 - Actress ("Father Knows Best"), "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler 1952 - Boxer, Drew Carey 1958 - Actor, game show host 


1618 - The Thirty Years War began when three opponents of the Reformation were thrown through a window. 


1701 - In London, Captain William Kidd was hanged after being convicted of murder and piracy. 


1785 - Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter that he had invented bifocals. 


1873 - Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established. The organization's name was changed to Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920. 


1900 - Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney became the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, 37 years after the Battle of Fort Wagner. 


1934 - In Bienville Parish, LA, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed by Texas Rangers. The bank robbers were riding in a stolen Ford Deluxe. 


1945 - In Luneburg Germany, Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi Gestapo, committed suicide while imprisoned by the Allied forces. 


1960 - Israel announced the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.