TODAY in HISTORY
Today is Wednesday, May 23, the 143nd day of 2018. There are 222 days left in the year.
1430 Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to raise the Siege of Compiegne.
1533 The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
1568 Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg, and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War.
1618 The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War.
1706 John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy at the Battle of Ramillies.
1788 South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state.
1829 Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire. Mexican– American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.
1846 The General German Workers' Association, Germany is founded in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony. 1911 The New York Public Library is dedicated. 1948 Thomas C. Wasson, the US ConsulGeneral, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.
1960 A tsunami caused by an earthquake in Chile the previous day kills 61 people in Hilo, Hawaii.
1992 Italy's most prominent anti- mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half- ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino is killed shortly after.
2002 The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland. 2008 The International Court of Justice ( ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca ( Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29- year territorial dispute between the two countries.
2010 Inter Milan beat Bayern Munich 2- 0 in the Uefa Champions League final in Madrid, Spain to become the first, and so far only, Italian team to win the historic treble ( Serie A, Coppa Italia, Champions League). Their arch- rivals Juventus would have equalled this record in 2015 and 2017, but they were beaten in both Uefa Champions League finals by Barcelona and Real Madrid respectively.
2017 Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law in Mindanao after Maute’s attack.