Various events that happened on May 23

The significant events of daily life become history in time. Those events take place there, which are good, which are first, which are the curse-blessing of mankind.

The agenda of history has always been important to people. Keeping this importance in mind, Bangladesh regularly organizes 'Today's History' for its readers.

Today is 23 May 2024, Thursday. Take a look at the important events that happened on this day in history, the birth and death dates of prominent people and other important things.

Chronology:

1293 – Thirty thousand people die in an earthquake in Kamakura, Japan.

1498 – Portuguese sailor Vasco da Gama arrived at the Indian port of Calicut in Uttamasha.

1506 – Death of Christopher Columbus.

1609 – Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London.

1799 – Birth of Honoré de Balzac, French writer.

1806 – English philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill was born.

1902 – Cuba becomes an independent state and all US troops leave Cuba on this day.

1910 – The Tokyo government declares the Korean peninsula part of Japan.

1932 – Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

1932 – Death of Bipinchandra Pal, leader of the Swadeshi movement and prominent orator.

1934 – After the end of the war between Saudi Arabia and Yemen over a border dispute, the defeated Yemeni government signs the Treaty of Taif.

1939 – Pan American Airways begins service between America and Europe.

1940 – Death of Swedish Nobel laureate (1916) novelist Carl Gustaf von Heidenstom.

1983 – The HIV virus is first published in Science magazine.

1986 – West Bengal Bangla Academy was established.

2006 – Construction of the historic Three Gorges Dam to establish the world's largest hydroelectric power station in China is completed. Its work started in 1997.

Bangladesh /OA

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