Death of Henry V, leaving Matilda a widowed Empress
Emperor Henry V died on 23 May 1125, leaving Matilda a childless widow and freeing her for recall to England.
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Emperor Henry V died on 23 May 1125, leaving Matilda a childless widow and freeing her for recall to England.
View detailsJoan of Arc is captured by Burgundian forces outside Compiègne.
View detailsArchbishop Cranmer declares Catherine's marriage to Henry VIII null and void.
View detailsMargaret Fuller was born on May 23, 1810, in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts.
View detailsArabella Mansfield was born near Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa.
View detailsAt the Brooklyn Bridge's formal dedication on May 23, 1883, Emily Warren Roebling was honored on the dedication plaque for her decade of supervisory engineering work.
View detailsCeija Stojka was born on May 23, 1933, in Kraubath, Austria.
View detailsBonnie Parker is killed in an ambush along with Clyde Barrow.
View detailsMink was the first Asian American woman to run for U.S. president.
View detailsMoms Mabley passed away on May 23, 1975, in White Plains, New York.
View detailsJill Pipher earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
View detailsKatherine Dunham received a Kennedy Center Honor on May 23, 1983, recognizing her lifetime contributions to American dance and culture.
View detailsSummited Mount Everest on May 23, 2001, her first eight‑thousander climb.
View detailsKrush became the first American woman awarded the Grandmaster title.
View detailsPhyllis Ann Fox died in Berkeley, California, after a storied career in computer science.
View detailsElizabeth Blackburn featured in a series highlighting transformative women in science.
View detailsCarla Hayden received the 2018 Melville Dewey Medal for creative leadership in library management and classification.
View detailsTIME named Maya Lin among the 100 most influential people of 2022.
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