Today in History
23 April
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| 1014 Brian Boru, high king of Ireland, was killed repelling Viking invaders at the battle of Clontarf. | ||
| 1154 Damascus surrenders to sultan Nur ad-Din van Aleppo | ||
| 1348 1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of Garter) | ||
| 1464 Johanna van Valois, Queen of France WAS BORN | ||
| 1500 Pedro Cabral lands & annexes Brazil (Terra da Vera Cruz) | ||
| 1501 Portuguese navigator Pedro Cabral & 6 ships return to Lisbon | ||
| 1504 King Maximilian I routes troops to Bavaria | ||
| 1547 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quioxite) was born | ||
| 1564 The birth of William Shakespeare, England's greatest playwright, is traditionally celebrated on this date. He died on the same date in 1616. | ||
| 1616 Netherlands buys De Briel/Vlissingen/Fort Rammekens from England | ||
| 1616 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish novelist and playwright died in Madrid; he is famed for "Don Quixote," considered to be one of the greatest modern novels. | ||
| 1625 Frederick Henry became Stadtholder or ruler of the Netherlands after the death of Maurice of Nassau. | ||
| 1629 John Commelin, director (Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam) was born | ||
| 1633 The League of Heilbronn was established. It united South German Protestants with Sweden and France against the Catholic League and the Imperialists | ||
| 1661 Charles II was crowned king of England | ||
| 1662 Connecticut chartered as an English colony | ||
| 1697 George Baron Anson, British admiral/explorer was born | ||
| 1708 Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (Versuch einiger Poem) was born | ||
| 1723 Cornelis Steenoven elected archbishop of Utrecht | ||
| 1728 Samuel Wallis, explorer (Wallis Island) was born | ||
| 1789 President-elect George Washington moves into Franklin House, NY | ||
| 1795 William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason | ||
| 1798 Dutch emperor accepts new Constitution | ||
| 1810 Thomas Wright, historian was born | ||
| 1823 Abdul-Medjid, 31st sultan of Turkey (1839-61) was born | ||
| 1826 Missolonghi captured by Turks | ||
| 1838 Alfred J Verwee, Flemish painter was born | ||
| 1851 Canada issues its 1st postage stamps | ||
| 1861 Arkansas troops seize Ft Smith | ||
| 1867 Queen Victoria & Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel | ||
| 1878 1st Dutch test drive of steam tram | ||
| 1881 Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Patience" produced in London | ||
| 1891 Jews are expelled from Moscow Russia | ||
| 1904 American Academy of Arts & Letters forms | ||
| 1908 Denmark, Germany, Engld, France, Neth & Sweden signs North Sea accord | ||
| 1910 International Exhibition opens in Brussels | ||
| 1915 ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA) | ||
| 1918 Dover Patrol overthrows Germany U-boat in East Sea | ||
| 1918 The British Navy under Admiral Keyes raided the German submarine base at Zeebrugge. | ||
| 1920 Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets, in Ankara | ||
| 1924 British Empire Exhibition opens at Wembley | ||
| 1932 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon | ||
| 1938 Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self government | ||
| 1940 Dance hall fires kills 198 (Natchez Miss) | ||
| 1941 Greece Army surrenders to German Nazis | ||
| 1941 King George of the Hellenes and the Greek government fled the Greek mainland from the advancing Germans; the Greek army also surrendered | ||
| 1942 4-day allied bombing on Rostock begins | ||
| 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter | ||
| 1943 British & US offensive directed at Tunis/Bizerta | ||
| 1945 The Russian army liberated the Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrueck concentration camps. | ||
| 1945 US troops in Italy cross river Po | ||
| 1949 Chinese Red army conquerors Nanjing | ||
| 1949 Netherlands annexes Elten & Tudderen | ||
| 1950 Nationalist China evacuates Hainan Island | ||
| 1952 Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias completed | ||
| 1953 General Charles P Cabell, USAF, becomes deputy director of CIA | ||
| 1956 US Supreme court ends race segregation on buses | ||
| 1959 1st heliport in Britain opens in London | ||
| 1962 1st US satellite to reach the moon launched | ||
| 1964 New York State Theater opens | ||
| 1968 1st decimal coins issued in Britain (5 & 10 pence) | ||
| 1969 Over 1000ý mi flooded in Shantung Province China | ||
| 1971 Soyuz 10 launched; cosmonauts become 1st in Salyut 1 space station | ||
| 1972 Apollo 16 astronauts explores Moon surface | ||
| 1977 ADO The Hague soccer team forms | ||
| 1977 Milt workers kill 300-500 students in Addis Ababa | ||
| 1980 Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die | ||
| 1984 AIDS-virus identified (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) | ||
| 1985 Coca-Cola announced it is changing its secret flavor formula | ||
| 1985 New Coke debuts | ||
| 1987 28 construction workers killed in an apt collapse in Bridgeport, Ct | ||
| 1988 A Greek pedals self-powered aircraft, 74 miles | ||
| 1988 Federal smoking ban during domestic airline flights of 2 hrs or less | ||
| 1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plays his last game as a Laker | ||
| 1989 Students in Beijing China announce class boycotts | ||
| 1990 Chinese Premier Li Peng arrived in Moscow on an official visit to the Soviet Union, the most senior Chinese leader to visit Moscow since 1964. | ||
| 1991 USSR grants republics right to secede under certain conditions | ||
| 1992 McDonald's opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China | ||
| 1993 Eritrea votes to secede from Ethiopia | ||
| 1993 A lone gunmen shot and killed Lalith Athulathmudali, a prominent Sri Lankan opposition leader, at an election rally outside the capital Colombo. | ||
| 1994 General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Norm Duke | ||
| 1995 Hideo Murai, No. 2 official in the Aum Shinri Kyo sect accused of involvement in various gas attacks in Tokyo, was assassinated outside the sect's headquarters. | ||
| 1996 Former Australian Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating resigned from parliament, ending a political career of 27 years. | ||
| 1997 The presidents of Russia and China signed a declaration opposing the domination of one superpower in the post-Cold War world. | ||
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