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Movie events on the 23rd May

1430

Jeanne d'Arc decides to attack the fort of Margny with her small remaining band of loyalists. They are met by superior Bourguignon forces in an open field and Jeanne is quickly pulled from her mount. Lieutenant Jean de Luxmbourg, The Bastard of Wandonne requests she surrender, offering to "take [her] faith", which she gives resignedly. (Compiegne, France) (Joan the Maid: The Prisons)

1701

British privateer William Kidd, popularly known as Captain Kidd, is hanged for piracy and murder . (London, England) (Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl)

1933

Joan Collins is born. (London, England) (Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure)

1934

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are gunned down. (Texas) (Bonnie and Clyde)

1940

Frank Sinatra records "I'll Never Smile Again". (Sinatra)

1941

Lord Mountbatten, cousin to a king, sunk by German dive-bombers. (Mediterranean Sea) (Dieppe)

1960

Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion announces to the world that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann has been captured and will stand trial in Israel. (The Man Who Captured Eichmann)

1964

Walter E. Kurtz's transfer application is denied. (Apocalypse Now)

1966

Sakichi Sugita, associate of the powerful Tensei Coalition, is murdered in the streets of the Takeya District by two armed recruits under orders from yakuza family head Terukichi Ichioka. (Hiroshima, Japan) (The Yakuza Papers 5: Final Episode)

1996

Jenny escapes from the Sawyer family. (Texas) (The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre)

2000

At the school science fair, Frank DeTorre eats a bad oyster. Osmosis Jones activates the emergency puke, and Frank vomits on Mrs. Boyd, his daughter Shane's teacher. (Providence, Rhode Island) (Osmosis Jones)

Social deviants and captured political dissidents for experiments to create a virus to pose as a bio-terrorist attack. (Larkhill Detention Centre) (V for Vendetta)

2001

Eric Kirby and Ben Hildenrand go parasailing on Isla Sorna. After they crash-land on the island, Ben is killed by raptors, leaving Eric to eek out a meager existence on his own for the next 8 weeks. (Isla Sorna, Costa Rica) (Jurassic Park III)

2002

Oakland has won 20 games and lost 26 games by this time in American League West. (Moneyball)

2003

Dre Parker's height is measured. (Detroit, MI) (The Karate Kid)

2006

Bartleby is accepted by South Harmon Institute of Technology. (Ohio) (Accepted)

2007

Day 500: Tom is over Summer, and moves onto Autumn. (500 Days of Summer)

2012

Charlie Sheen's corpse stops partying. (Scary Movie 5)

2013

Turbo is video-recorded as he races in front of people. (San Fernando Valley, California) (Turbo)

2018

Kyle and Star are taken by a Harvester. Marcus meets Blair Williams. (Los Angeles Basin) (Terminator Salvation)

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