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May 23rd
in history

1862: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson takes Front Royal, Virginia.

1864: Union General Ulysses Grant attempts to outflank Confederate Robert E. Lee in the Battle of North Anna, Virginia.

1900: Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney becomes the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, thirty-seven years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.

1901: American forces capture Filipino rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo.

1915: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.

Born May 23rd

1910: Artie Shaw, bandleader and clarinetist.

1920: Helen O'Connell, big band vocalist.

1928: Rosemary Clooney, singer.

1934: Robert A. Moog, electrical engineer, creator of the Moog synthesizer.

1947: Jane Kenyon, poet (Let Evening Come, Otherwise).