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23 Mey:

• 1430 – Joan o Arc is capturt bi the Burgundians while leadin an airmy tae raise the Siege o Compiègne.
• 1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is birned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
• 1533 – The mairiage o Keeng Henry VIII tae Catherine o Aragon (picturt) is declared null an vyde.
• 1945 – Warld War II: Heinrich Himmler, heid o the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
• 1995 – The first version o the Java programmin leid is released.

Carolus Linnaeus (b. 1707) · Henrik Ibsen (d. 1906) · John Forbes Nash, Jr. (b. 2015)