History for May 23 - On-This-Day.com:
Margaret Fuller (Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli) 1810 - Journalist, critic, women's rights activist, Scatman Crothers (Benjamin Sherman "Scatman" Crothers) 1910 - Actor, musician, singer, dancer, Rosemary Clooney 1928 - Singer, actress
Joan Collins 1933 - Actress ("Dynasty"), Robert Moog 1934 - Musician, Drew Carey 1958 - Actor, game show host
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.
1879 - The first U.S. veterinary school was established by Iowa State University.
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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.
1937 - Industrialist John D. Rockefeller died.
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.
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