On This Day for May 23 - Tibet annexed by China, Captain Kidd is featured, and more

This message contains graphics. If you do not see the graphics, click here to view. May 23 FEATURED BIOGRAPHY Captain Kidd READ MORE   FEATURED EVENT 1951 Tibet annexed by China READ MORE   Advertisement Advertisement   MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY 2015: American mathematician John Nash , who won the 1994 Nobel Prize for Economics for his landmark work on game theory and who struggled with paranoid schizophrenia, died at age 86. [ Test your knowledge of the Nobel Prize.] 2000: American rapper Eminem released The Marshall Mathers LP , which became the fastest-selling album in the history of rap. [Take our hip-hop quiz.] 1934: Bonnie and Clyde, notorious American outlaws, were killed in a police shoot-out near Gibsland, Louisiana. [Test your knowledge of famous outlaws.] 1915: Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary, entering World War I on the side of the Allies. [Sort fact from fiction in our World War I quiz.] 1707: Swedish botanist and explorer Carolus Linnaeus, the first to frame principles for defining genera and species of organisms and to create a uniform system for naming them, was born in Råshult. [ Test your knowledge of botany.] 1706: Allied (Anglo-Dutch) forces led by the duke of Marlborough recorded a major victory over the French at the Battle of Ramillies, a turning point in the War of the Spanish Succession. [ Match the battle with the war in our quiz.] SEE ALL EVENTS ON THIS DAY ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY 1928 Rosemary Clooney American actress and musician 1933 Joan Collins English actress 1707 Carolus Linnaeus Swedish botanist 1971 George Osborne British politician 1912 John Payne American actor 1883 Douglas Fairbanks American actor SEE ALL BIOS ON THIS DAY   Advertisement   FOLLOW: To unsubscribe from Britannica e-mails, click here. Encyclopædia Britannica 325 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 200 Chicago, Illinois 60654 United States © 2020 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Privacy Policy • Help