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Events on May 23

• 1430 During the siege of Compiègne, Jeanne d’Arc falls into the hands of the Burgundians in the Hundred Years’ War. The French king Charles VII, who owed his coronation to her, had already turned away from her before that.
• 1498 The preacher of repentance Girolamo Savonarola, who was excommunicated by Pope Alexander VI as a “heretic, schismatic and despiser of the Holy See,” is first hanged and then burned on a pyre on the Piazza della Signoria in Florence together with two fellow friars before a large crowd.
• 1863 Ferdinand Lassalle founds the General German Workers’ Association (ADAV) in Leipzig together with delegates from Leipzig, Hamburg, Harburg, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Elberfeld, Barmen, Solingen, Frankfurt am Main, Mainz and Dresden, the origin of the present-day SPD.
• 1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary as a result of the Treaty of London, which dissolved the Triple Alliance de jure. This marks the beginning of the Alpine War, and the twelve Battles of the Isonzo follow during the First World War.
• 1930 In Berlin, Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s anti-war film Westfront 1918 premieres.
• 1945 The Dönitz government—the acting Reich government appointed by Reich President Karl Dönitz (the Schwerin von Krosigk cabinet), with its provisional seat in the Mürwik special area—is declared removed from office and arrested by the Allies. This is regarded as the end of the Nazi state (Third Reich).
• 1949 The Parliamentary Council in West Germany proclaims the Basic Law. Through this step, the Federal Republic of Germany is founded. The Basic Law initially applies only to the Western Zone known as the Trizone, with the exception of Saarland.
• 1984 The feature film Paris, Texas, by German director Wim Wenders and starring Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski and Dean Stockwell in the leading roles, is awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
• 1995 At the SunWorld Conference, the computer manufacturer Sun Microsystems presents the programming language Java to the public for the first time as part of the Java technology.
• 2001 At the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium in Milan, FC Bayern München defeats FC Valencia 5:4 in a penalty shootout to win the UEFA Champions League for the first time.
• 2006 In New York, the new 7 World Trade Center is opened with a large concert on the site of the old World Trade Center complex destroyed in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
• 2009 After a 5:1 win over Werder Bremen on the final matchday of the 2008/2009 Bundesliga season, VfL Wolfsburg becomes German football champion for the first time.

Born on May 23

• 1873 Leo Baeck, German rabbi, representative of liberal Judaism
• 1883 Douglas Fairbanks Sr., American actor
• 1900 Hans Frank, German jurist and politician, war criminal
• 1920 Annette von Aretin, the first female television announcer of Bavarian Broadcasting
• 1930 Friedrich Achleitner, Austrian writer
• 1951 Anatoli Jewgenjewitsch Karpow, Russian chess player
• 1972 Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian racing driver
• 1980 Theofanis Gekas, Greek footballer
• 1981 Janine Wissler, German politician
• 1991 Lena Meyer-Landrut, German singer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „23. Mai“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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