📜 This Day in History

May 23

• 1430Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc was captured by Burgundian forces at the Siege of Compiègne.
• 1568The Dutch Revolt broke out when rebels led by Louis of Nassau invaded Friesland at the Battle of Heiligerlee.
• 1873The North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, was established to bring law and order to and assert Canadian sovereignty over the Northwest Territories.
• 1974The Airbus A300, the first twin-engined wide-body airliner, went into service with Air France.
• 2008The International Court of Justice awarded the Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca to Singapore, resolving a 29-year-old territorial dispute in the Singapore Strait.
• 2021Ryanair Flight 4978 was forced to land by Belarusian authorities, who detained dissident journalist Roman Protasevich.

Born on this day

• 1707Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (died 1778)
• 1891Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1974)
• 1908John Bardeen, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)
• 1951Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player