In a May 23but from 1992, the anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone He is murdered in an attack along with his wife and three bodyguards, while traveling in a vehicle on the Sicilian highway in Palermo.
1822.- Work begins on the world’s first railway, which would link the English cities of Stockton and Darlington.
1823.- Entry into Madrid of the ‘One Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis’, a French expedition in charge of reestablishing the absolutism of Ferdinand VII.
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1926.- Constitution of the Republic of Greater Lebanon, which includes Syria and Lebanon.
1934.- The Louisiana police (USA) kill the famous criminals Bonnie and Clyde (Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow).
1974.- First commercial flight of the Airbus A300B2. Operated by Air France, it made the Paris-London route.
2008.- Signature in Brasilia of the Constitutive Treaty of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), between twelve South American countries.
2010.- British Petroleum agrees to pay compensation of 75 million dollars for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
2011.- Chile exhumes the remains of former president Salvador Allende, in an attempt to determine whether he took his own life or was assassinated in the 1973 military coup.
2014.- The International Criminal Court sentences Congolese ‘warlord’ Germain Katanga to 12 years in prison for war crimes committed in 2003.
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2015.- Beatification of Monsignor Óscar Arnulfo Romero, in San Salvador.
2016.- Barack Obama announces in Hanoi the lifting of the military embargo on Vietnam.
2021.- A cable car crashes to the ground in the Italian region of Piedmont, killing 14 people and seriously injuring a child.
2023.- Microsoft announces an artificial intelligence “personal assistant” for Windows 11.
1734.- Franz Anton Mesmer, German doctor, discoverer of animal magnetism and hypnotism.
1919.- Gayatri Devi, last Maharani of Jaipur, India.
1923.- Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist.
1930.- Jordi Solé Tura, Spanish politician and one of the drafters of the Spanish Constitution.
1933.- Joan Collins, British actress.
1949.- Alan García, Peruvian politician.
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1951.- Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player.
1972.- Rubens Barichello, Brazilian Formula 1 driver.
1974.- Mónica Naranjo, Spanish singer.
1627.- Luis de Góngora y Argote, Spanish poet.
1842.- José de Espronceda, Spanish poet.
1906.- Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright.
1937.- John D. Rockefeller, American businessman.
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1992.- Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer-songwriter and writer.
2008.- Cornell Capa, American photographer.
2013.- Georges Moustaki, Egyptian-French singer.
2015.- John Forbes Nash, American mathematician.
2017.- Roger Moore, British actor.
2018.- Luis Posada Carriles, Cuban terrorist, anti-Castro and former CIA agent.
2021.- Cristóbal Halffter, Spanish composer and conductor.
2025.- Sebastiao Salgado, Brazilian photographer.
