This was nearly completed May 23, 1901 with a promise of lights by June 10, but the first light did not go on until September 28.

The '49 team was off to a so-so 5-5 beginning, then fell as low as 12-17 on May 23 before finishing with 96 victories.

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (, Anatolij Evgen ' evič Karpov ; born May 23, 1951 ) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion.

Karpov was born on May 23, 1951 at Zlatoust in the Urals region of the former Soviet Union, and learned to play chess at the age of four.

On May 23, 1845, Abby May was granted a sum from her father's estate which was put into a trust fund, granting minor financial security.

" The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else ," Capp philosophically wrote ( in Life magazine on May 23, 1960 ), " was to be indifferent to that difference.

‘ Abdu ’ l-Bahá (‎; 23 May 1844 – 28 November 1921 ), born ‘ Abbás Effendí, was the eldest son of Bahá ' u ' lláh, the founder of the Bahá ' í Faith.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá was born in Tehran, Iran on 23 May 1844 ( 5th of Jamadiyu ' l-Avval, 1260 AH ), the eldest son of Bahá ' u ' lláh and Navváb.

23 May 1844

In a break with tradition, a " home " fixture against Argentina took place at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on 23 May 2005, before the Lions went to New Zealand.

On May 7, 2008, Borland announced the sale of CodeGear division to Embarcadero Technologies for an expected $ 23 million price and $ 7 million in CodeGear accounts receivables retained by Borland.

The Battle of Ramillies (), fought on 23 May 1706, was a major engagement of the War of the Spanish Succession.

Initial attack at the Battle of Ramillies, 23 May 1706.

* " Special Section: Ranch Apocalypse " in Spectrum issue 23: 1 ( May 1993 ), and Responses in Spectrum 23: 3 ( October 1993 ), p56 – 59

#** Prince Louis Napoléon Murat ( Paris, December 22, 1851-Paris, September 22, 1912 ), married in Odessa, 23 November, 1873 Eudoxia Mikhailovna Somova ( Kharkov, February 17, 1850-Nice, May 6, 1924 ), related to Orest Somov, and had issue now extinct in male line ( great-grandfather of actor René Auberjonois )

Chaplin also concentrated on his family, to which he and Oona added three more children, Jane Cecil ( b. 23 May 1957 ), Annette Emily ( b. 3 December 1959 ) and Christopher James ( b. 8 July 1962 ).

Carl Linnaeus ( Swedish original name Carl Nilsson Linnæus, 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778 ), also known after his ennoblement as, was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature.

Carl Linnaeus was born in the village of Råshult in Småland, Sweden on 23 May 1707.

She is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, and departed the International Space Station on May 23, 2011, as a crew member of Expedition 27 after logging 159 days in space.

Soyuz TMA-20 / Expedition 26 / 27 ( December 15, 2010, to May 23, 2011 ) was an extended duration mission to the International Space Station.

Charles Robert Malden ( 9 August 1797 – 23 May 1855 ), was a nineteenth century British naval officer, surveyor and educator.

Czech is also one of the 23 official languages in the European Union ( since May 2004 ).

Derleth also changed Alhazred's final fate, as described in his short story " The Keeper of the Key ", first published in May 1951.

* 1951 – Peter May, Scottish novelist and scriptwriter

On 20 May 1951, Fulham played one of their first ever games in North America in an exhibition match against Celtic F. C.

David Remez was the first signatory to pass away, dying in May 1951, while Meir Vilner, the youngest signatory at just 29, was the longest living, serving in the Knesset until 1990 and dying in June 2003.

Jeffry Ross Hyman ( May 19, 1951 – April 15, 2001 ), best known by his stage name Joey Ramone, was an American musician, vocalist and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the punk rock band the Ramones.

His entrance into RADA was delayed until May 1951 by appendicitis.

In early May 1951, Burgess got three speeding tickets in a single day – then pleaded diplomatic immunity, causing an official complaint to be made to the British Ambassador.

The SIS planned to interrogate Maclean on 28 May 1951.

* Boy's Life includes a continuing strip story " Old Timer Tales of Kit Carson " from March 1951 to May 1953.

Charles Mason Remey ( May 15, 1874 – February 4, 1974 ) was a prominent and controversial American Bahá ' í who was appointed in 1951 a Hand of the Cause, and president of the International Bahá ' í Council.

The first episode was broadcast on 28 May 1951 on the BBC Home Service.

On May 15, 1951, Williams became the 11th player in major league history to hit 300 career home runs.

In May 1951, both Lockheed and Convair were awarded contracts in the attempt to design, construct, and test two experimental VTOL fighters.

The RAF's then-current jet bomber the English Electric Canberra, introduced in May 1951 and designed during the war, could only have reached the Soviet border and had a capacity of 6, 000 lb ( 2, 720 kg ).

* May 31 – Jack Holt, American actor ( d. 1951 )

* May 6 – Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir-apparent of Emperor Wilhelm II ( d. 1951 )

* May 2 – Eddie Collins, baseball player ( d. 1951 )

* May 11 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist ( d. 1951 )

In May 1951, during Operation Greenhouse, the explosions of devices " George " and " Item " proved that a fission explosion could trigger non-sustaining fusion reactions in a mixture of deuterium and tritium.

Opening on 24 November 1951 on Broadway at the Fulton Theatre, the play ran for 219 performances ( finishing on 31 May 1952 ) and Hepburn's debut on Broadway earned her a Theatre World Award.

She appeared in several high-profile films from the 1950s to 1970s, including The Hucksters ( 1947 ), Show Boat ( 1951 ), The Snows of Kilimanjaro ( 1952 ), The Barefoot Contessa ( 1954 ), Bhowani Junction ( 1956 ), On the Beach ( 1959 ), Seven Days in May ( 1964 ), The Night of the Iguana ( 1964 ), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean ( 1972 ), Earthquake ( 1974 ), and The Cassandra Crossing ( 1976 ).

The King was well enough to open the Festival of Britain in May 1951, but on 23 September 1951, he underwent a pneumonectomy where his left lung was removed following the discovery of a malignant tumour.