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 300 BC-AD 1899 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 was announced (it was 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 - The Merry Wives of Windsor is first performed; Queen Elizabeth I of England was 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 presented 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 1900-1999 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 1933 - The Gestapo is established in Germany. 1934 - An FBI raid in northern Wisconsin goes wrong when George Nelson, aka "Baby Face", kills Special Agent H. Carter Baum. 1942 - World War II: Baedeker Raids - German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York, England 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. 1983 - In Munich, Germany, Corinne Hermès 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, was 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. 2000-2099 2001 - Intel introduces the Pentium 4 Processor. 2003 - Beijing closes all schools for two weeks due to the SARS virus. Births 1100-1899 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) 1900-1999 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 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 later Christian martyr 1000-1899 1014 - Brian Boru, High King of Ireland during the Battle of Clontarf (b. c. 940) 1124 - King Alexander I of Scotland (b. 1078) 1616 (Julian calendar) - William Shakespeare, English playwright and actor (b. 1564) 1616 (Gregorian calendar) - Miguel Cervantes, Spanish author (b. 1547) 1792 - Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and adventurer (b. 1741) 1850 - William Wordsworth, English poet (b. 1770) 1900-1999 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) 2000- 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 Jurgi festival, in ancient Latvia Feast Day of Saint George: National Day of England celebrated as St. Jordi's Day in Catalonia, presents of books and roses. 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