Sunday, 23 May 2021: 23 May 2013: On this day in 2013, Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic, who died on 21 March 2013 was buried at Ogidi, his home town, in Idemili North local government area.
2000 May 23, In Nigeria Christians and Muslims clashed for a 2nd day in Kaduna and the death toll mounted to 100.
2006 May 23, Congo arrested a group of foreign security guards on suspicion of plotting a coup ahead of national elections. Interior Minister Theophile Mbemba said there were three Americans, 10 Nigerians and 12 South Africans among the group of 32 taken into custody. Mbemba said all the men had received visits from their respective ambassadors.
2010 May 23, In Nigeria fresh violence between Muslims and Christians in Jos left one person dead and another seriously wounded, a day after three others were killed. 15 suspects were arrested for the previous day’s killings. Gunmen in the delta seized 3 Chinese technicians. The men were freed on May 29.
2011 May 23, In Nigeria a Borno State policeman on patrol was killed in a drive-by shooting near St. Mary Catholic Church in the city of Maiduguri. Boko Haram, a radical Muslim sect, was blamed for the killing.
2015 May 23, Nigerian airlines grounded flights and radio stations were silenced as a months-long fuel shortage worsened, aggravated by a strike disrupting fuel deliveries in Africa's biggest oil producer.
1934 U.S.A. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow
1934:Bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and gunned down with over 100 rounds of ammunition by police in Black Lake, Louisiana. Following the deaths of Bonnie and Clyde slain in Louisiana by federal agents, their bodies are being transported back to Texas and are to be buried in separate graves in different parts of Dallas. They were inseparable in life committing robberies and murders side by side across the nation but in death Bonnie's mother has stated Clyde took her daughter away from her but she will take her daughter back in death against Bonnie's last wishes.
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were notorious during the great depression years as outlaws, they were featured in newspapers throughout the country because of their escapades robbing banks, small stores and gas stations. They became notorious not because they robbed and killed so many but because of the authority’s inability to catch them. Many thought them as heroes because of their status as a modern day "Robin Hood" but reality is they killed ordinary people and did not "Give to The Poor".
1940 U.S.A. "I'll Never Smile Again"
1940: "I'll Never Smile Again" was recorded by Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey and the Pied Pipers. The song was the first #1 hit on the weekly Billboard Best Selling Singles chart. Since then, it has been a popular standard for many artists in a variety of genres.
1929 Australia Gold Rush
1929: A new gold rush is starting in Australia as gold has been found just 3 feet below the surface and claims are now being made all over the area in South West.
Born This Day in History 23rd May
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Joan Collins: British actress
Born: May 23rd, 1933 London, England
Known For: British actress Joan Collins began her career in the 1950s. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s she continued her film career as well as making notable television appearances, often portraying a villain. In the 1980s she got her breakout role as Alexis Colby on the U.S. soap opera Dynasty. She was nominated for and won several Golden Globes and Emmy awards for her work on Dynasty. Collins continues to act, making cameos in films and television. She is well-known for her charity work and was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2015.
1937 U.S.A. John D. Rockefeller
1937: John D. Rockefeller the American industrialist once the world’s richest man before he gave his millions away has died at 97 yrs old, he went from a $4.50 clerk to the world’s richest man only to give most of it away in the last 30 years for philanthropic deeds.
1945 World War II Heinrich Himmler: Heinrich Himmler, Hitler's second in command, committed suicide while in Allied custody by using a tiny vial of poison in his mouth at the time of his capture.
1977 Netherlands Children Hostage: South Moluccan militants armed with machine guns hold 105 children and six teachers hostage in a primary school in northern Holland. A second band of gunmen held about 50 persons on a train about 10 miles from the school in Bovensmilde.
1981 Syria Warns Israel:Syria has warned Israel that if it attacks Syria or Lebanon it will attack in the heart of Israel and was prepared to go to war to protect its country, and could lead to a full-scale middle east war.
2005 United Kingdom BBC Workers Go on Strike:BBC workers staged a twenty-four-hour strike over nearly four thousand proposed job cuts. The BBC stated that the broadcast unions had nearly forty-percent of workers join the walkout, and although many services were diminished, much of the television and radio news and entertainment organization was able to function at a minimal level. The BBC called on unions to resume talks.
2012 Art Owned by Gunter Sachs Auctioned for Over $40 million:Art that had been owned by late billionaire playboy Gunter Sachs was sold at Sotheby's in London for over $40 million. Some of the collection included a portrait of Brigitte Bardot, who had been married to Sachs, done by Andy Warhol as well as other works by the artist and a complete set of pop art furniture made by Allen Jones.
