Thursday May 23, 2013

US date format: 5/23/2013, UK date format: 23/5/2013

It was Thursday, under the sign of Gemini (see zodiac on May 23, 2013). The US president was Barack Obama (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was David Cameron (Conservative), Pope Francis was leading the Catholic Church. In that special week of May people in US were listening to Can't Hold Us by Macklemore. Rapture-Palooza, directed by Paul Middleditch, was one of the most viewed movies released in 2013 while Life After Life by Kate Atkinson was one of the best selling books. On TV people were watching Blood Ties. If you liked videogames you were probably playing FIFA 14 or Blood of the Werewolf.
But much more happened that day: find out below..

You can also have a look at the year 2013, at May 23 across the years or at May 2013 calendar.

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Historical Events

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Holidays

World Turtle Day
Saint Desiderius
Saint Guibert of Gemblours
Saint Montana
Bah�'f Faith: Declaration of the B�b
Discordianism: Day of Disunity
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Events

Syrian Civil War:: Friends of Syria calls on Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah to withdraw from Syrian territory. (Ynet)
Friends of Syria calls on Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah to withdraw from Syrian territory. (Ynet)
Riots continue for a fourth night in suburbs of the Swedish capital Stockholm heavily populated by immigrants with unrest spreading. (Irish Times)
Code Pink's Medea Benjamin condemns Barack Obama's use of drones and the Guantanamo hunger strikes during Obama's speech outlining U.S. drone policy. (AP) (The Hill) (Business Insider)
Two suicide bombers strike in the northern Niger towns of Agadez and Arlit with twenty-one dead and ten more people killed in a gun battle between soldiers and Islamist fighters. (Euronews)
The Boy Scouts of America vote to allow openly gay youth to join. (Time)
Ford Motor Company announces the closure of its Australian manufacturing operations in October 2016, including a car factory in Broadmeadows and an engine plant in Geelong with a loss of 1,200 jobs. (The Australian)
Five people are killed and thirty eight injured in a road accident in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. (Xinhua)
The Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River collapses in the US town of Mount Vernon, Washington, dumping vehicles in the river but with no fatalities. (KOMO News), (CBC News Canada), (AP via ABC News America)
Most of the population in Montreal, Canada, is advised to boil water before drinking after sediments are found in the reservoir of a major water treatment plant. (CBC)
A cluster of mysterious and serious respiratory illnesses that affected Southeast Alabama and killed 2 people was nothing more than the ordinary common cold, mostly rhinovirus, and seasonal influenza A. (NBC)
Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, visits the Democratic Republic of the Congo as fighting continues near the eastern city of Goma. (BBC)
The victim of yesterday's attack in London is confirmed to have been a serving British soldier, and named as Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. (BBC)
Abdul-Baki Todashev, the father of Ibragim Todashev (the man who had confessed to the FBI the day before in Orlando, Florida, to working with Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the deceased older brother in the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, in a previously unsolved 2011 triple homicide, and subsequently while being questioned attacked an agent with a knife and was killed) claims that his son is innocent and that federal investigators are biased against Chechens and made up their case against him. (NBC)
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