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THIS DAY IN U.S. HISTORY: May 23rd

Posted by hannahadams on May 23, 2022 in Blogs, Featured, Latest News, This Day in US History, What's Hot, What's New

These historical events took place on May 23rd:

1785: Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals.

1788: South Carolina becomes 8th state to ratify United States constitution.

1845: New York City Police Department (NYPD) is formed, replacing an old night watch system.

1865: Flag flown at full mast over White House for the first time since Lincoln was shot.

1878: Attorney John Henry Smyth named United States minister to Liberia.

1900: William Harvey Carney becomes the first African-American soldier awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Civil War at the Battle of Fort Wagner.

1903: First automobile trip across United States leaves San Francisco for New York and arrives on July 26th.

1934: American outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow – Bonnie and Clyde – are killed by police in an ambush near Sailes, Louisiana.

1939: Submarine USS Squalus sinks in the Gulf of Maine, drowning 26, 33 remaining crew rescued from a depth of 243 ft (74 m) by divers using newly developed heliox air systems, divers later awarded the Medal of Honor.

1970: Grateful Dead’s first performance outside United States, as part of ‘The Hollywood Rock Music Festival’, in Newcastle under Lyme, England.

1977: United States Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman & John Mitchell.

1984: “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”, second in the film series, directed by Stephen Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford, opens in the United States.

Posted in Blogs, Featured, Latest News, This Day in US History, What's Hot, What's New | Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Bonnie and Clyde, Ehrlichman, First automobile, Flag down, Grateful Dead, Haldeman, Indiana Jones, John Henry Smyth, Mitchell, NYPD, South Carolina, William Harvey Carney

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