Today is Saturday, May 23, the 144th day of 2020. There are 222 days left in the year.<\/p>\n
Todays highlight in history<\/p>\n
On May 23, 1984, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop issued a report saying there was very solid evidence linking cigarette smoke to lung disease in non-smokers.<\/p>\n
On this date<\/p>\n
In 1915, Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary during World War I.<\/p>\n
In 1934, bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, La.<\/p>\n
In 1945, Nazi official Heinrich Himmler committed suicide by biting into a cyanide capsule while in British custody in Luneburg, Germany.<\/p>\n
In 1984, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, starring Harrison Ford, was released by Paramount Pictures.<\/p>\n
In 2007, President George W. Bush, speaking at the U.S. Coast Guard commencement, portrayed the Iraq war as a battle between the U.S. and al-Qaida and said Osama bin Laden was setting up a terrorist cell in Iraq to strike targets in America.<\/p>\n
Ten years ago<\/p>\n
In a new al-Qaida video, U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (who would die in a U.S. drone attack in September 2011) advocated the killing of American civilians, accusing the U.S. of intentionally killing a million Muslim civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.<\/p>\n
Five years ago<\/p>\n
John Forbes Nash Jr., 86, a mathematical genius whose struggle with schizophrenia was chronicled in the 2001 movie A Beautiful Mind, and his wife, Alicia Nash, 82, were killed in a car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike.<\/p>\n
One year ago<\/p>\n
The U.S. filed new charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, accusing him of violating the Espionage Act by publishing secret documents containing the names of confidential military and diplomatic sources.<\/p>\n
Todays birthdays<\/p>\n
Actress Joan Collins, 87.<\/p>\n
International Tennis Hall of Famer John Newcombe, 76.<\/p>\n
Chess grandmaster Anatoly Karpov, 69.<\/p>\n
Boxing Hall of Famer Marvelous Marvin Hagler, 66.<\/p>\n
Actor-comedian-game show host Drew Carey, 62.<\/p>\n
Author Mitch Albom, 62.<\/p>\n
Singer Jewel, 46.<\/p>\n
Game show contestant Ken Jennings, 46.<\/p>\n
Actor Adam Wylie, 36.<\/p>\n
Golfer Morgan Pressel, 32.<\/p>\n
Folk\/pop singer\/songwriter Sarah Jarosz, 29.<\/p>\n
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