April 23
April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years ). There are 252 days remaining.
Events
215 BC - A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasum .
AD 303 - Saint George is put to death because of his strong faith in Christianity .
1014 - Battle of Clontarf : Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.
1348 - The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III of England is announced on (St George's Day ).
1521 - Battle of Villalar : King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros .
1533 - The Church of England annuls the marriage between Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII of England .
1597 - Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor Elizabeth I of England in attendance.
1660 - Treaty of Oliva between Sweden and Poland .
1661 - King Charles II of England , Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey .
1827 - William Rowan Hamilton presents his Theory of systems of rays .
1867 - William Lincoln patents the zoetrope , a machine which shows animated pictures by mounting a strip of drawings in a wheel.
1876 - April Uprising in Perushtitsa , Bulgaria
1920 - The national council in Turkey denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution.
1923 - Ceremonial inauguration of Gdynia Seaport.
1932 - Windmill De Adriaan burns down in Haarlem , the Netherlands
1934 - An FBI raid in northern Wisconsin goes wrong when George Nelson , aka "Baby Face", kills Special Agent H. Carter Baum.
1935 - Polish Constitution of 1935 is passed
1940 - A fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi kills 198 people.
1942 - World War II : Baedeker Raids - German bombers hit Exeter , Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck .
1948 - 1948 Arab-Israeli War : Haifa , the major port of Israel , is captured from Palestinian forces.
1954 - Hank Aaron hits his first major league home run .
1956 - Elvis Presley makes his first appearance in Las Vegas, Nevada .
1967 - Soyuz 1 is launched into orbit, carrying a single cosmonaut , Colonel Vladimir Komarov , who is killed when the spacecraft crashes after returning to earth.
1968 - The United Kingdom produces its first decimalised coins, a 5p and a 10p coin.
1968 - Vietnam War : Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
1971 - The Rolling Stones release the classic album Sticky Fingers 1974 - A Pan American World Airways Boeing 707 crashes in Bali , Indonesia killing 107.
1975 - Vietnam War: At Tulane University , U.S. President Gerald Ford states that the war is over as far as the United States is concerned.
1979 - Fighting in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan Police 's Special Patrol group results in the death of protestor Blair Peach .
1982 - The Conch Republic declares independence.
1983 - In Munich , Germany , Corinne Hermčs wins the twenty-eighth Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg singing "Si la vie est cadeau" (If life is a gift).
1985 - New Coke , a marketing disaster is introduced.
1990 - Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the British Commonwealth .
1993 - Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations -monitored referendum.
1994 - Physicists discover the top quark subatomic particle .
1997 - Omaria massacre in Algeria ; 42 villagers killed.
2001 - Intel introduces the Pentium 4 Processor.
2003 - Beijing closes all schools for two weeks due to the SARS virus.
Births
1185 - King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1233 )
1516 - Georg Fabricius , German poet , historian and archaeologist (d. 1571 )
1564 - William Shakespeare , English playwright, actor - traditional birth date, Actual date unknown (d. 1616 )
1598 - Maarten Tromp , admiral in the Dutch navy (d. 1653 )
1676 - King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751 )
1720 - The Vilna Gaon
1775 - William Turner , painter (d. 1851 )
1791 - James Buchanan , 15th President of the United States (d. 1868 )
1792 - John Thomas Romney Robinson , Irish astronomer and physicist (d. 1882 )
1813 - Stephen A. Douglas , Senator from Illinois , candidate for President of the United States (d. 1861 )
1823 - Abd-ul-Mejid , future Ottoman sultan (d. 1861 )
1858 - Max Planck , physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1918 (d. 1947 )
1861 - Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby , British general (d. 1936 )
1882 - Albert Coates , British composer (d. 1953 )
1889 - Karel Doorman , Dutch admiral
1891 - Sergei Prokofiev , Soviet composer (d. 1953 )
1893 - Allen Dulles , CIA director (d. 1969 )
1893 - Frank Borzage , director (d. 1952 )
1897 - Lester B. Pearson , fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1972 )
1899 - Dame Ngaio Marsh , author (d. 1982 )
1901 - E.B. Ford British ecological geneticist (d. 1988 )
1902 - Halldór Laxness , author (d. 1998 )
1916 - Bud Wilkinson , American football coach
1921 - Warren Spahn , Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 2003 )
1923 - Dolph Briscoe , former governor of Texas
1923 - Avram Davidson , science fiction writer (d. 1993 )
1926 - Ruth Leuwerik , actress
1928 - Shirley Temple (Shirley Temple Black), American actress and politician
1932 - Halston , fashion designer (d. 1990 )
1935 - Bunky Green , jazz musician
1936 - Roy Orbison , American singer and musician (d. 1988 )
1939 - Lee Majors , actor
1941 - Paavo Lipponen , Prime Minister of Finland
1941 - Jacqueline Boyer , French singer, Eurovision Song Contest winner
1942 - Sandra Dee , actress
1947 - Christer Pettersson , suspected assassin of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme (d. 2004 )
1949 - Joyce DeWitt , actress
1954 - Michael Moore , filmmaker
1955 - Judy Davis , actress
1955 - Tony Miles , chess player (d. 2001 )
1960 - Steve Clark , Def Leppard guitarist
1960 - Valerie Bertinelli , actress
1961 - George Lopez , actor, comedian
1968 - Timothy McVeigh , American terrorist (d. 2001 )
1972 - Patricia Manterola , Mexican singer
1979 - Jaime King , actress
Deaths
303 - Saint George , soldier of the Roman Empire and Christian martyr
725 - Wihtred , king of Kent
871 - Ethelred of Wessex 1014 - Brian Boru , High King of Ireland during the Battle of Clontarf (b. c. 940 )
1016 - Ethelred II of England .
1124 - King Alexander I of Scotland (b. 1078 )
1616 (Julian calendar ) - William Shakespeare , English playwright and actor (b. 1564 )
1616 - Miguel Cervantes , Spanish author (b. 1547 )
1792 - Karl Friedrich Bahrdt , German theologian and adventurer (b. 1741 )
1850 - William Wordsworth , English poet (b. 1770 )
1951 - Charles G. Dawes , Vice President of the United States for Calvin Coolidge (b 1865 )
1975 - William Hartnell , actor (b. 1908 )
1979 - Blair Peach , anti-fascism campaigner (b. 1946 )
1983 - Buster Crabbe , Olympics swimming gold medalist, actor
1986 - Otto Preminger , film director (b. 1906 )
1986 - Jim Laker , cricketer (b. 1922
1990 - Paulette Goddard , actress
1992 - Satyajit Ray , Indian filmmaker (b. 1921 )
1993 - César Chávez , labor activist (b. 1927 )
1995 - Howard Cosell , sports journalist (b. 1918 )
1996 - Pamela L. Travers , author (b. 1899 )
1997 - Denis Compton , English cricketer (b. 1918 )
1998 - James Earl Ray , assassin (b. 1928 )
2002 - Linda Lovelace , pornographic film star (b. 1949 )
2003 - James H. Critchfield , CIA Cold Warrior
2003 - Bernard Katz , biophysicist, Nobel Prize winner
Holidays and observances
External links
April 22 - April 24 - March 23 - May 23 -- listing of all days
