What Happened on May 24, 2023

Historical Events

Election of Interest

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' launch of his bid for the Republican presidential nomination on Twitter is marred by glitches and outages [1]

Censorship in Florida

Former US Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman's poem, “The Hill We Climb” is placed on a restricted reading list at Bob Graham Education Center, Miami Lakes, amid increasing censorship across Florida

Man with paralysis walks naturally for the first time in 12 years after a Swiss team created a neurological link between the brain and spinal cord, findings published in "Nature" [1]

Wagner Leaves Bakmut

Mercenary Wagner Group says it is handing over the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, after capturing it for Russia, in one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the war so far [1]

Oligarch and Mercenary Leader Yevgeny Prigozhin

Test for a possible alien transmission to earth to see if humans can decode it, sent from ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, the spacecraft orbiting Mars [1]

Events in 2023

Famous Deaths

Bill Lee, American session double-bassist, and film score composer (Do The Right Thing; She's Gotta Have It), dies at 94
George Maharis, American actor (Route 66 - "Buz"; The Happening; The Most Deadly Game), dies at 94 [1]
Jerry Krause, American Basketball HOF coach (Eastern Washington University; director basketball operations Gonzaga 1985-2015), dies of colon cancer at 87