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• ...that Madagascar dry deciduous forests (such as Anjajavy Forest, pictured right) contain many endangered and endemic species of lemurs, boas, and chameleons?
• ...that Robinow syndrome is an extremely rare genetic disorder whose facial deformities were described by Meinhard Robinow with the term fetal facies, due to the resemblance of some patients' faces to that of a fetus?
• ...that Jakub Uchański, a 16th-century primate of Poland, was suspected of heresy and summoned to appear before the inquisition in Rome?
• ...that Benjamin Franklin Tilley, the first American governor of American Samoa, was put on trial and removed from office for allegedly receiving a massage from a native?
• ...that a regional park established to protect Nevėžis River ecosystem in Lithuania also breeds wisents?
• ...that the motif of "La Paloma," written by Sebastián Iradier in Cuba around 1863, can be traced back to an episode during the Greco-Persian Wars in 492 BCE?

• Montenegro (arms pictured) approves independence from its state union with Serbia with 55.4% support.
• Sweden wins the Men's World Ice Hockey Championship, defeating the Czech Republic in the final.
• Monster rock band Lordi earns Finland's first ever victory in the Eurovision Song Contest.
• Structural work on the Three Gorges Dam is completed.
• Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the first permanent government in Iraq since 2003 take office, but with some key ministries still unfilled.
• The Nepali Parliament votes unanimously to strip King Gyanendra of many of his powers.

May 23: 100th anniversary of the death of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen

• 1430 - Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc was captured at the Siege of Compiègne.
• 1533 - The marriage of Henry VIII of England and his first wife Catherine of Aragon (pictured) was annulled.
• 1568 - The Eighty Years' War broke out when Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau invaded Friesland in the Battle of Heiligerlee.
• 1934 - American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.
• 1945 - End of World War II in Europe: Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz was captured and his Flensburg government was dissolved.
• 2002 - The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol was reached after its ratification by Iceland.

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