Notable Historical Events on April 23rd
April 23rd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
215 |
A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene. |
BC AD | |
1014 |
King Brian Boru of Ireland defeats Viking forces at Battle of Clontarf freeing Ireland from foreign control |
1154 |
Damascus surrenders to sultan Nur ad-Din van Aleppo |
1229 |
Ferdinand III of Castile conquers Cáceres. |
1343 |
St. George's Night Uprising in Estonia |
1348 |
1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of Garter) |
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 |
1597 |
William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in attendance. |
1616 |
Netherlands buys De Briel/Vlissingen/Fort Rammekens from England |
1633 |
Sweden & Protestant German monarchy form Union of Heilbronn |
1635 |
Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School founded |
1660 |
Treaty of Oliwa is established between Sweden and Poland. |
1661 |
English king Charles II crowned in London |
1662 |
Connecticut chartered as an English colony |
1705 |
Richard Steele's "Tender Husband" premieres in London |
1723 |
Cornelis Steenoven elected archbishop of Utrecht |
1775 |
Opera "Il Ré Pastore" is produced (Salzburg) |
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 |
1826 |
Missolonghi captured by Turks |
1827 |
William Rowan Hamilton presents his Theory of systems of rays. |
1838 |
English steamship "Great Western" crossing Atlantic docks in NYC |
1851 |
Canada issues its 1st postage stamps |
1860 |
Dem convention in Charleston SC divided over slavery |
1861 |
Robert E. Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces (US Civil War) |
1861 |
Arkansas troops seize Ft Smith |
1864 |
Battle of Cane River, LA (Red River Expedition, Monett's Ferry) |
1867 |
Queen Victoria & Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel |
1871 |
Blossom Rock in SF Bay blown up |
1878 |
1st Dutch test drive of steam tram |
1881 |
Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Patience" produced in London |
1883 |
John Heemskerk Azn forms Dutch government |
1891 |
Jews are expelled from Moscow Russia |
1896 |
Vitascope system of movie projection 1st shown at Koster & Bial's Music Hall (NYC) |
1900 |
1st know occurrence of word "hillbillie" (NY Journal) |
1903 |
NY Highlanders (Yankees) win their 2nd game beating Wash Senators 7-2 |
1904 |
American Academy of Arts & Letters forms |
1908 |
Denmark, Germany, Britain, France, Netherlands & Sweden sign North Sea accord |
1910 |
International Exhibition opens in Brussels |
1915 |
ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA) |
1916 |
Lord Dunsany's "Night at an Inn" premieres in NYC |
1918 |
Battle of Zeebrugge ends |
1918 |
Dover Patrol overthrows Germany U-boat in East Sea |
1918 |
National Urban League forms |
1919 |
Major leagues open a reduced 140-game season |
1920 |
Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets, in Ankara |
1920 |
The national council in Turkey denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution. |
1921 |
Charles Paddock runs world record 100m (10.4 secs) |
1923 |
Inauguration ceremonies take place of Gdynia as a temporary military port and fishers' shelter. |
1924 |
British Empire Exhibition opens at Wembley |
1925 |
1st London performance of operetta "Fasquita" staged |
1925 |
Pastor LH Perquin forms Union of Catholic Dutch Radio (KRO) forms |
1932 |
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon |
1932 |
The 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, the Netherlands burns down. |
1933 |
Dovo soccer team forms in Veenendaal |
1935 |
Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted. |
1936 |
Carl Hubbell's 1st start of season is his 17th straight win |
1938 |
Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self government |
1939 |
1st performance of Béla Bartok's 2nd Concerto for violin |
1939 |
Boston Red Sox Ted Williams hits his 1st HR |
1940 |
Dance hall fires kills 198 (Natchez Miss) |
1940 |
NY Yankees dedicate a plaque to Jacob Rupert |
1941 |
Greece Army surrenders to German Nazis RAF brings Greek king George II to Egypt |
1942 |
4-day allied bombing on Rostock begins |
1942 |
Luftwaffe bombs Exeter |
1943 |
British & US offensive directed at Tunis/Bizerta |
1945 |
Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated |
1945 |
US troops in Italy cross river Po |
1946 |
Bkln Dodger Ed Head no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0 |
1948 |
KSTP TV channel 5 in St Paul-Minneapolis, MN (ABC) 1st broadcast |
1949 |
Chinese Red army conquerors Nanjing |
1949 |
Courtesy mail boxes for motorists started in SF |
1949 |
Netherlands annexes Elten & Tudderen |
1950 |
1st major league day game completed under lights (Phils 6, Braves 5) |
1950 |
4th NBA Championship: Min Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 4 games to 2 |
1950 |
Nationalist China evacuates Hainan Island |
1950 |
Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat NY Rangers, 4 games to 3 |
1951 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Richmond Women's Golf Open |
1952 |
Bob Cain of Browns & Bob Feller of Indians each pitch a one-hitter |
1952 |
NY Giant Hoyt Wilhelm wins his 1st relief game & hits his only HR |
1952 |
Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias completed |
1953 |
General Charles P Cabell, USAF, becomes deputy director of CIA |
1953 |
KTAR (now KPNX) TV channel 12 in Phoenix, AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
WCOV TV channel 20 in Montgomery, AL (IND/CBS) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 1st of his 755 homers |
1955 |
"Kismet" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 583 performances |
1955 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Carrollton Golf Open |
1958 |
Gil Hodges hits his 300th HR & Pee Wee Reese plays in 2,000th game |
1959 |
"Destry Rides Again" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 472 perfs |
1959 |
1st heliport in Britain opens in London |
1960 |
1st performance of Ferde Grofe's "San Francisco Suite" |
1961 |
"Tenderloin" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 216 performances |
1961 |
Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
1961 |
Algiers putsch by French generals. |
1962 |
1st US satellite to reach the moon launched |
1962 |
NY Mets win their 1st game ever, after going 0-9, beat Pirates 9-1 |
1962 |
Ranger 4, 1st US satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral |
1963 |
"She Loves Me" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 302 perfs |
1963 |
Jerry Bock & S Harnick's musical "She Loves Me" premieres in NYC |
1964 |
James Baldwin's "Blues for Mr Charlie" premieres in NYC |
1964 |
New York State Theater opens |
1964 |
Houston Colt 45s Ken Johnson becomes 1st major league pitcher to lose a 9 inning no-hitter, Reds win 1-0 |
1965 |
Launch of 1st Soviet communications satellite |
1967 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational |
1967 |
Soyuz 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes 1st in-flight casualty |
1968 |
"I'm Solomon" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 7 performances |
1968 |
1st decimal coins issued in Britain (5 & 10 new pence, replacing shilling and two-shilling pieces) |
1968 |
United Methodist Church forms |
1969 |
ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jim Chestney |
1969 |
LA Laker Jerry West scores 53 points |
1969 |
Over 1000 square miles flooded in Shantung Province China |
1969 |
Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy |
1969 |
The Unionist Parliamentary Party votes by 28 to 22 to introduce universal adult suffrage in local government elections in Northern Ireland; the demand for 'one man, one vote' had been one of the most powerful slogans of the civil rights movement |
1971 |
Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike |
1971 |
Soyuz 10 launched; cosmonauts become 1st in Salyut 1 space station |
1972 |
26th Tony Awards: Sticks & Bones & 2 Gentlemen of Verona win |
1972 |
Apollo 16 astronauts explores Moon surface |
1972 |
Betty Burfeind wins LPGA Birmingham Centennital Golf Classic |
1972 |
The Sunday Times Insight Team publish their account of the events of 'Bloody Sunday' |
1974 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR |
1975 |
Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land" premieres in London |
1977 |
ADO The Hague soccer team forms |
1977 |
Dr Allen Bussey completes 20,302 yo-yo loops |
1977 |
Milt workers kill 300-500 students in Addis Ababa |
1977 |
Czech chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously & only loses 10 |
1978 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic |
1978 |
Reds Joe Morgan ends record streak of 91 cons errorless games at 2nd |
1978 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1979 |
Fighting in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan Police Special Patrol Group results in the death of protester Blair Peach. |
1980 |
Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die |
1982 |
Conch Republic is established - secession of the Florida Keys from the United States of America |
1982 |
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum is released. |
1983 |
David Hookes scores his only Test Cricket century, 143* v Sri Lanka |
1984 |
AIDS-virus identified (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) |
1985 |
Brooklyn College soccer team wins Nepal's invitational |
1985 |
New Coke debuts; Coca-Cola announced it is changing its secret flavor formula |
1985 |
Flyers 5-Isles 3-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 3-0 lead |
1986 |
Grand Floridian Beach Resort groundbreaking |
1986 |
Madrid-Nelli Cooman runs world record 60m indoor (7 sec) |
1987 |
28 construction workers killed in an apt collapse in Bridgeport, Ct |
1987 |
NJ Devils farm team Maine Mariners (AHL) move to Utica (Devils) NY |
1988 |
A Greek pedals self-powered aircraft, 74 miles |
1988 |
Federal smoking ban during domestic airline flights of 2 hrs or less |
1988 |
Karolina Szabo runs female world record 25k (1:29:30)/30k (1:47;06) |
1989 |
Betsy King wins LPGA USX Golf Classic |
1989 |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plays his last game as a Laker |
1989 |
Nolan Ryan blows a no hitter in 9th inning |
1989 |
Students in Beijing China announce class boycotts |
1990 |
11th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
1991 |
Bjorn Borg loses 6-2, 6-3 to Jordi Arrese after 8 year lay off |
1991 |
Gordon Greenidge scores 223 v Aus, his last Test Cricket knock at home |
1991 |
USSR grants republics right to secede under certain conditions |
1992 |
"Shirnada" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 performances |
1992 |
Marion Berry (former mayor of Wash DC) let out of prison |
1992 |
McDonald's opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China |
1993 |
Eritrea votes to secede from Ethiopia |
1993 |
Peter Townshend's musical "Tommy" premieres in NYC |
1994 |
Army shoots to death 23-40 fishermen in Gonaives Haiti |
1994 |
General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Norm Duke |
1994 |
Libertarian party nominates Howard Stern for Governor of NY |
1995 |
Laura Davis wins LPGA Chick-fil-A Charity Golf Championship |
1995 |
President Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City |
1996 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Reno NV on KRZQ 96.5 FM |
1996 |
Sotherby begins 4 day auction of Jackie O stuff-take in $34.5 million |
1997 |
"Titanic," opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC |
1997 |
32nd Academy of Country Music Awards: LeAnn Rines & Brooks & Dunn |
1997 |
Omaria massacre in Algeria: 42 villagers are killed. |
2003 |
Beijing closes all schools for two weeks because of the SARS virus. |
2009 |
The gamma ray burst GRB 090423 it's observed for 10 seconds as the most distant object of any kind and also the oldest known object in the universe. |
2011 |
Zach Daniels defeated Rick Michaels to become the new TNT Heavyweight Champion. |
2012 |
Netherlands Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, tenders resignation, paving the way for early elections |
2012 |
Rangers F.C. owner, Craig Whyte, is banned for life from any involvement in Scottish football |
2012 |
38,000 London Marathon entrants have their home and email contacts published in a data protection breach |
2013 |
28 people are killed and 70 are injured during clashes between police and Sunni Muslims in Hawija, Iraq |
2013 |
21 people are killed during violent unrest in Xinjiang, China |
2013 |
A 1% flash crash hits the US stock market after a news agency was hacked and claimed injury to President Obama |
2013 |
The French National Assembly passes an amended bill legalizing same-sex marriage |
2013 |
West Indian cricketer, Chris Gayle, smashes the fastest century in history (30 balls) |
2014 |
60 people are killed & 80 are injured after a train crashes in The Democratic Republic of the Congo |
2015 |
Chile's Calbuco volcano erupts for first time in more than 40 years |
2016 |
UN Urges US and Russia to Act Quickly to Save Syria Peace Talks |
2016 |
China, US pledge to ratify Paris climate deal this year |
2016 |
UN envoy calls for major Syria meeting to save truce and peace talks |
2016 |
Obama says Britons should visit US states despite LGBT laws |
2016 |
Virginia governor signs order restoring voting rights for felons |
2016 |
Eight family members killed in Ohio gun rampage |
2017 |
Japanese ships join US carrier for drills as it nears Korean waters |
2017 |
Michigan doctors charged in first genital mutilation case in US |
2017 |
More Than 100 Dead In Taliban Attack On Afghan Army Base |
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