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Events on the 23rd of April in history

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23 Apr 0215 A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
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23 Apr 0599 Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico, defeating queen Yohl Ik'nal and sacking the city.
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23 Apr 0711 Dagobert III is crowned King of the Franks.
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23 Apr 1014 Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.
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23 Apr 1014 King Brian Boru of Ireland beats Danes at Battle of Clontarf
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23 Apr 1016 Edmund Ironside succeeds his father Æthelred the Unready as king of England.
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23 Apr 1154 Damascus surrenders to sultan Nur ad-Din van Aleppo
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23 Apr 1343 St. George's Night Uprising commences in the Duchy of Estonia.
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23 Apr 1348 The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St. George's Day.
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23 Apr 1348 1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of the Garter)
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23 Apr 1500 Pedro Cabral lands and annexes Brazil (Terra da Vera Cruz)
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23 Apr 1500 Pedro
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23 Apr 1501 Portuguese navigator Pedro Cabral and 6 ships return to Lisbon
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23 Apr 1504 King Maximilian I routes troops to Bavaria
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23 Apr 1516 The Bayerische Reinheitsgebot (regarding the ingredients of beer) is signed in Ingolstadt.
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23 Apr 1521 Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
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23 Apr 1616 Netherlands buys De Briel / Vlissingen / Fort Rammekens from England
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23 Apr 1633 Sweden & Protestant German monarchy form Union of Heilbronn
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23 Apr 1635 The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston.
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23 Apr 1635 Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School founded
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23 Apr 1655 The Siege of Santo Domingo begins during the Anglo-Spanish War, and fails seven days later.
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23 Apr 1660 Treaty of Oliva is established between Sweden and Poland.
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23 Apr 1661 King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
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23 Apr 1661 English king Charles II crowned in London
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23 Apr 1662 Connecticut chartered as an English colony
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23 Apr 1705 Richard Steele's "Tender Husband", premieres in London
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23 Apr 1723 Cornelis Steenoven elected archbishop of Utrecht
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23 Apr 1775 The opera "Il R
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23 Apr 1789 President-elect George Washington moves into Franklin House, New York
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23 Apr 1795 William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason
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23 Apr 1798 Dutch emperor accepts new Constitution
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23 Apr 1815 The Second Serbian Uprising: A second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire.
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23 Apr 1826 Missolonghi captured by Turks
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23 Apr 1838 English steamship "Great Western" crossing Atlantic docks in New York City
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23 Apr 1851 Canada issues its 1st postage stamps
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23 Apr 1860 Democratic convention in Charleston SC divided over slavery
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23 Apr 1861 Battle of San Antonio, Texas
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23 Apr 1861 Arkansas troops seize Fort Smith
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23 Apr 1864 Battle of Cane River LA (Red River Expedition, Monett's Ferry)
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23 Apr 1867 Queen Victoria & Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel
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23 Apr 1871 Blossom Rock in SF Bay blown up
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23 Apr 1871 Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay blown up
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23 Apr 1878 1st Dutch test drive of steam tram
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23 Apr 1881 Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Patience or Bunthorne's Bride" produced in London
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23 Apr 1883 John Heemskerk Azn forms Dutch government
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23 Apr 1891 Jews are expelled from Moscow Russia
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23 Apr 1896 Vitascope system of movie projection 1st demonstrated (NYC)
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23 Apr 1896 Vitascope system of movie projection 1st demonstrated (Koster & Bial's Music Hall, NYC)
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23 Apr 1900 1st know occurrence of word "hillbillie" (NY Journal)
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23 Apr 1900 1st known occurrence of word "hillbillie" (New York Journal)
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23 Apr 1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) win their 1st game beating Washington Senators 7-2
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23 Apr 1904 American Academy of Arts & Letters forms
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23 Apr 1908 Denmark, Germany, England, France, Netherlands & Sweden signs North Sea accord
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23 Apr 1910 American President Theodore Roosevelt makes his "The Man in the Arena" speech.
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23 Apr 1910 International Exhibition opens in Brussels
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23 Apr 1914 First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park in Chicago.
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23 Apr 1915 ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA)
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23 Apr 1916 Lord Dunsany's "Night at an Inn", premieres in NYC
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23 Apr 1918 World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
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23 Apr 1918 Battle of Zeebrugge ends
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23 Apr 1918 Dover Patrol overthrows Germany U-boat in East Sea
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23 Apr 1918 National Urban League forms
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23 Apr 1919 Major leagues open a reduced 140-game season
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23 Apr 1920 The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara, Turkey. It denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces the preparation of a temporary constitution.
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23 Apr 1920 Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets, in Ankara
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23 Apr 1921 Charles Paddock runs world record 100 meter (10.4 seconds)
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23 Apr 1924 British Empire Exhibition opens at Wembley
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23 Apr 1925 1st London performance of operetta "Fasquita" staged
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23 Apr 1925 Pastor LH Perquin forms Union of Catholic Dutch Radio (KRO) forms
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23 Apr 1927 Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.
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23 Apr 1932 The 153-year-old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, Netherlands burns down. It is rebuilt and reopens exactly 70 years later.
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23 Apr 1932 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon
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23 Apr 1933 Dovo soccer team forms in Veenendaal
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23 Apr 1935 The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
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23 Apr 1936 Carl Hubbell's 1st start of season is his 17th straight win
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23 Apr 1938 Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self government
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23 Apr 1939 1st performance of B
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23 Apr 1939 Boston Red Sox Ted Williams hits his 1st homerun
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23 Apr 1940 Dance hall fires kills 198 (Natchez, Mississippi)
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23 Apr 1940 The Rhythm Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
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23 Apr 1940 New York Yankees dedicate a plaque to Jacob Rupert
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23 Apr 1941 World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
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23 Apr 1941 Greece Army surrenders to German Nazi's RAF brings Greek king George II to Egypt
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23 Apr 1942 World War II: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
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23 Apr 1942 4-day allied bombing on Rostock begins
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23 Apr 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
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23 Apr 1943 British and US offensive directed at Tunis / Bizerta
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23 Apr 1945 World War II: Adolf Hitler's designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz.
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23 Apr 1945 Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated
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23 Apr 1945 US troops in Italy cross river Po
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23 Apr 1946 Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
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23 Apr 1946 Brooklyn Dodger Ed Head no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
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23 Apr 1948 KSTP TV channel 5 in St Paul-Minneapolis MN (ABC) 1st broadcast
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23 Apr 1949 Chinese Civil War: Establishment of the People's Liberation Army Navy.
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23 Apr 1949 Courtesy mail boxes for motorists started in San Francisco
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23 Apr 1949 Chinese Red army conquerors Nanjing
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23 Apr 1949 Netherlands annexes Elten & Tudderen
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23 Apr 1950 Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat the New York Rangers, 4 games to 3
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23 Apr 1950 1st major league day game completed under lights (Phillies 6, Braves 5)
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23 Apr 1950 4th NBA Championship Minneapolis Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 4 games to 2
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23 Apr 1950 Nationalist China evacuates Hainan Island
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23 Apr 1951 American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
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23 Apr 1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Richmond Women's Golf Open
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23 Apr 1952 Bob Cain of Browns and Bob Feller of Indians each pitch a one-hitter
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23 Apr 1952 Bob Cain of St Louis Browns & Bob Feller of Cleveland Indians each pitch a one-hitter
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23 Apr 1952 New York Giant Hoyt Wilhelm wins his 1st relief game & hits his only homerun
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23 Apr 1952 Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias completed
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23 Apr 1953 WCOV TV channel 20 in Montgomery, AL (IND / CBS) begins broadcasting
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23 Apr 1953 General Charles P Cabell, USAF, becomes deputy director of CIA
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23 Apr 1953 KTAR (now KPNX) TV channel 12 in Phoenix AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting
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23 Apr 1954 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 1st of his 755 homers
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23 Apr 1954 NBA adopts the 24-second shot clock rule
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23 Apr 1955 "Kismet" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 583 performances
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23 Apr 1955 The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.
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23 Apr 1955 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Carrollton Golf Open
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23 Apr 1956 US Supreme court ends race segregation on buses
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23 Apr 1958 Gil Hodges hits his 300th homerun & Pee Wee Reese plays in 2,000th game
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23 Apr 1959 "Destry Rides Again" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 472 performances
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23 Apr 1959 1st heliport in Britain opens in London
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23 Apr 1960 1st performance of Ferde Grof
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23 Apr 1961 "Tenderloin" closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 216 performances
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23 Apr 1961 Algiers putsch by French generals.
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23 Apr 1961 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
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23 Apr 1962 New York Mets win their 1st game ever, after going 0-9, beat Pittsburgh Pirates 9-1
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23 Apr 1962 Ranger 4, 1st US satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral
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23 Apr 1962 1st US satellite to reach the moon launched
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23 Apr 1963 Jerry Bock & S Harnick's musical "She Loves Me", premieres at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 302 performances
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23 Apr 1964 Houston Colt 45s Ken Johnson becomes 1st major league pitcher to lose a 9 inning no-hitter, Cincinnati Reds win 1-0
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23 Apr 1964 James Baldwin's "Blues for Mr Charlie", premieres in NYC
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23 Apr 1964 New York State Theater opens
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23 Apr 1965 Launch of 1st Soviet communications satellite
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23 Apr 1967 Soyuz 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes 1st in-flight casualty
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23 Apr 1967 Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.
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23 Apr 1967 Soyuz 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes 1st in-flight casualty when its parachute lines became tangled and the parachutes failed to open properly upon return to Earth
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23 Apr 1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
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23 Apr 1968 Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
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23 Apr 1968 United Methodist Church forms
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23 Apr 1968 "I'm Solomon" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 7 performances
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23 Apr 1968 1st decimal coins issued in Britain (5 & 10 pence)
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23 Apr 1969 Over 1000 square miles flooded in Shantung Province China
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23 Apr 1969 Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy
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23 Apr 1969 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jim Chestney
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23 Apr 1969 Los Angeles Laker Jerry West scores 53 points
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23 Apr 1971 Soyuz 10 launched; Cosmonauts become 1st in Salyut 1 space station
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23 Apr 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army and Razakars massacre approximately 3,000 Hindu emigrants in the Jathibhanga area of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
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23 Apr 1971 Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike
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23 Apr 1971 Soyuz 10 launched; soft docked with Salyut 1
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23 Apr 1972 26th Tony Awards: Sticks and Bones and 2 Gentlemen of Verona win
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23 Apr 1972 Apollo 16 astronauts explore Moon surface
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23 Apr 1972 Betty Burfeind wins LPGA Birmingham Centennital Golf Classic
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23 Apr 1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
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23 Apr 1975 Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land", premieres in London
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23 Apr 1977 Czechoslovakian chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously & only loses 10
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23 Apr 1977 Dr Allen Bussey completes 20,302 yo-yo loops
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23 Apr 1977 ADO The Hague soccer team forms
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23 Apr 1977 Military workers kill 300-500 students in Addis Ababa
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23 Apr 1978 Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic
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23 Apr 1978 Cincinnati Red Joe Morgan ends record streak of 91 cons errorless games at 2nd
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23 Apr 1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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23 Apr 1980 Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die
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23 Apr 1983 David Hookes scores his only Test Cricket century, 143 vs Sri Lanka
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23 Apr 1984 AIDS-virus identified (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
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23 Apr 1985 Flyers 5-Isles 3 - Patrick Division Finals - Flyers hold 3-0 lead
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23 Apr 1985 Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
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23 Apr 1985 Brooklyn College soccer team wins Nepal's invitational
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23 Apr 1985 New Coke debuts
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23 Apr 1985 Philadelphia Flyers 5-New York Islanders 3-Patrick Division Finals-Flyers hold 3-0 lead
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23 Apr 1985 Coca-Cola announced it is changing its secret flavor formula
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23 Apr 1986 Grand Floridian Beach Resort groundbreaking
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23 Apr 1986 Madrid-Nelli Cooman runs world record 60 meter indoor (7 seconds)
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23 Apr 1987 28 construction workers killed in an apt collapse in Bridgeport, Connecticut
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23 Apr 1987 New Jersey Devils farm team Maine Mariners (AHL) move to Utica (Devils), New York
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23 Apr 1987 28 construction workers killed in an apartment building collapse in Bridgeport CT
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23 Apr 1988 A Greek pedals self-powered aircraft, 74 miles
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23 Apr 1988 Federal smoking ban during domestic airline flights of 2 hours or less
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23 Apr 1988 Karolina Szabo runs female world record 25k (1:29:30)/30k (1:47:06)
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23 Apr 1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plays his last game as a Los Angeles Laker
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23 Apr 1989 Students in Beijing China announce class boycotts
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23 Apr 1989 Betsy King wins LPGA USX Golf Classic
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23 Apr 1989 Nolan Ryan blows a no hitter in 9th inning
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23 Apr 1990 Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
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23 Apr 1990 11th Emmy Sports Award presentation
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23 Apr 1991 Bjorn Borg loses 6-2, 6-3 to Jordi Arrese after 8 year lay off
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23 Apr 1991 Gordon Greenidge scores 223 vs Australia, his last Test Cricket knock at home
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23 Apr 1991 USSR grants republics right to secede under certain conditions
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23 Apr 1992 "Shirnada" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 performances
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23 Apr 1992 Marion Berry (former mayor of Washington DC) is released from prison
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23 Apr 1992 McDonald's opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China
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23 Apr 1993 Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali is assassinated while addressing a gathering, approximately four weeks ahead of the Provincial Council elections for the Western Province.
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23 Apr 1993 Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
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23 Apr 1993 Eritrea votes to secede from Ethiopia
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23 Apr 1993 M
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23 Apr 1993 Peter Townshend's musical "Tommy", premieres in NYC
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23 Apr 1994 Army shoots to death 23-40 fishermen in Gonaives Haiti
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23 Apr 1994 General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Norm Duke
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23 Apr 1994 Libertarian party nominates Howard Stern for Governor of New York
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23 Apr 1995 President Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Okla City
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23 Apr 1995 Laura Davis wins LPGA Chick-fil-A Charity Golf Championship
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23 Apr 1995 President Bill Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City bombing victims
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23 Apr 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Reno NV on KRZQ 96.5 FM
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23 Apr 1996 Sotherby begins 4 day auction of Jackie O stuff-takes in $34.5 million
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23 Apr 1997 "Titanic, " opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater, New York City
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23 Apr 1997 Omaria massacre in Algeria: Forty-two villagers are killed.
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23 Apr 1997 "Titanic", opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
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23 Apr 1997 32nd Academy of Country Music Awards LeAnn Rines, Brooks & Dunn win
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23 Apr 2005 First YouTube video uploaded, titled "Me at the zoo".
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23 Apr 2013 At least 28 are dead and more than 70 are injured as violence breaks out in Hawija, Iraq.
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