This Day in History for 23rd April

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 175

215 BC - A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
1014 - King Brian Boru of Ireland beats Danes at Battle of Clontarf
1154 - Damascus surrenders to sultan Nur ad-Din van Aleppo
1229 - Ferdinand III of Castile conquers Cáceres.
1343 - St. George's Night Uprising.
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)
First US President George Washington 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 - 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
Playwright William Shakespeare 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 1st game beating Wash Senators 7-2
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)
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
Baseball Player Hank Aaron 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

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 271

1170 - Isabelle of Hainaut, queen of France (d. 1190)
1185 - King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1223)
1464 - Johanna van Valois, Queen of France
1464 - Robert Fayrfax, composer
1484 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italy, scholar (On the Subtlety of Things)
1500 - Alexander Alesius, [Aless/Alane], System theologist/physician
1500 - Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (d. 1565)
1516 - Georg Fabricius, German poet, historian, and archaeologist (d. 1571)
1564 - William Shakespeare, Stratford upon Avon, English Poet and playwright, traditionally regarded as his birthdate
1598 - Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, naval commander
1621 - William Penn, English admiral (d. 1670)
1623 - Jan Adam Reincken, composer
1628 - Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (d. 1704)
1629 - John Commelin, director (Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam)
1649 - Andreas Kneller, composer
1676 - King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751)
1697 - George Baron Anson, British admiral/explorer
1708 - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (Versuch einiger Poem)
1715 - Johann Friedrich Doles, composer
1720 - Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (d. 1797)
1725 - Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (d. 1755)
1728 - Samuel Wallis, explorer (Wallis Island)
1735 - Ildephons Haas, composer
1746 - Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French physician and anatomist (d. 1794)
1747 - Alexandre-Auguste Robineau, composer
1756 - Alexander Reinagle, composer
1775 - Joseph Mallord Turner, England, landscape painter (Shipwreck)
US President James Buchanan (1791) 1791 - James Buchanan, Cove Gap PA, (Fed/Dem), 15th US president (1857-61)
1791 - W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter/cartoonist
1792 - John Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist (d. 1882)
1794 - Wei Yuan, Chinese scholar (d. 1856)
1803 - Jules J baron d'Anethan, Belgian minister of Justice
1804 - Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (Triangulatie of Belgium)
1809 - Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer
1810 - Thomas Wright, historian
1812 - Louis-Antoine Julien, conductor
1813 - Stephen Arnold Douglas, (Little giant), US senator (Lincoln debates)
1813 - Frédéric Ozanam, French scholar (Society of Saint Vincent de Paul) (d. 1853)
1818 - James Anthony Froude, historian
1818 - John Gill Shorter, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1872
1821 - Pierre Dupont, song writer
1823 - Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1861)
1827 - Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German Catholic lawyer
1828 - Albert FA, king of Saxon (1873-1902)
1838 - Alfred J Verwee, Flemish painter
1852 - Edwin Markham, US, poet (1st winner of American Acad of Poets Award 1937)
1853 - Winthrop M. Crane, 40th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1920)
1857 - Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (I pagliacci/Zaza)
1858 - Max K E Ludwig Planck, German physicist (Planck Constant, Nobel 1918)
1861 - Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st viscount Allenby of Megiddo/Fieldmarshal
1865 - Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (d. 1943)
1867 - Simon Abramsz, Dutch teacher/writer (For the Young Ones)
1872 - Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, British musician (d. 1951)
1876 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (d. 1925)
1877 - Arthur Farwell, composer
1881 - Claude Carter, South African slow lefty cricketer (1912-22)
1881 - Otakar Sini, composer
1882 - Albert Coates, St Petersburg Russia, conductor/composer (Eagle)
1882 - Max [G M J] Winders Maximilien, Belgium, architect (WW II)
1888 - Georges Vanier, French-Canadian soldier and diplomat (d. 1967)
1889 - Charles Warrell, big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher
1890 - Donald Nichols Tweedy, composer
1890 - Marcel L'Herbier, French director/screenwriter (El Dorado)
1891 - Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Sontsovka, Ukraine, composer (Peter and the Wolf)
1892 - Minus van Looi, [Benjamin van der Voort], Flemish writer
1892 - R Huelsenbeck, writer
1893 - Frank Borzage, Salt Lake City, director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo)
1894 - Basil Sydney, England, actor (Hamlet, Jassy, Simba, Farmer's Wife)
1894 - George Renevant, Paris, actor (Moulin Rouge, Scotland Yard, Comrade X)
1894 - Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (d. 1955)
1895 - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand writer (d. 1982)
1896 - Margaret Kennedy, novelist
1897 - Harold French, director (Encore)/actor
1897 - John Wengraf, Vienna Austria, actor (12 to Moon, Pride & Passion)
1897 - Lester Bowles Pearson, (L) 14th Canadian PM (1963-68) (Nobel 1957)
1897 - Lucius du Bignon Clay, US, general (WW II)/gov (West Germany)
1898 - Edwin E Dwinger, German writer (General Vlassov)
1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, St Petersburg, Russia, novelist (Lolita, Ada)
1900 - Ary Verhaar, composer
1900 - Henry Barraud, composer
1900 - Joseph Green, film maker
1900 - Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1901 - E.B. Ford, British ecological geneticist (d. 1988)
1902 - Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1903 - Guy Simonds, youngest general officer in the Canadian army (d 1974)
1904 - Duncan Renaldo, Spain, actor (Cisco Kid)
1904 - Leslie French, actor/singer (More than a Miracle)
1905 - Lord Carew, Ireland, judge (dressage)
1906 - Marcel Hillaire, Cologne Germany, actor (Adv in Paradise)
1906 - Maria Arnoldo, [Adrianus Broeders], photographer/writer
1907 - Baroness Dudley
1908 - Frederick Hawkins, dancer
1908 - Herbert Telley, British actuary
1908 - Myron Waldman, American animator (d. 2006)
1909 - Thomas Padmore, senior civil servant
1911 - Ronald Neame, director (1st Monday in Oct, Poseidon Adventure)
1911 - Simone Simon, France, actress (All Money Can Buy, Ladies in Love)
1913 - Jan Meyerowitz, composer
1914 - Andrew Martin, Lord-Lt (Lechestershire England)
1914 - John Hubbard, Indiana Harbor Indiana, actor (Don't Call Me Charlie)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 2

1927 - Mary Barbara Hamilton (25,)best-selling British romantic author, marries 1st husband Alexander McQorquodale
2006 - "Rascal Flatts" guitarist Joe Don Rooney (30) weds Playboy's 2005 Playmate of The Year Tiffany Fallon (31) in an intimate ceremony held on the beach at San Jose del Cabo, Mexico

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 2 of 2

1992 - British Princess Anne (the Princess Royal)and her 1st husband Captain Mark Phillips divorce after 19 years
1993 - Motley Crue's Mike Mars files for divorce from Emi-Canyn

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 124

34 - Christ, crucified, according to Isaac Newton
303 - Saint George, Greek officer in the Roman army, beheaded. Patron saint of many lands including England
725 - Wihtred, King of Kent
871 - Ethelred I, king of Wessex/brother of Alfred the Great, dies
990 - Ekkehart II, [Palatinus], monk to St-Gallen/poet, dies
997 - Vojtech "Adalbert" of Prague, 2nd bishop of Prague/apostle, dies at 40
1014 - Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, dies in battle at Clontarf
1016 - Æthelred II "the Unready", king of England (979-1016), dies
1151 - Queen Adeliza of England (b. 1103)
1217 - King Inge II of Norway (b. 1185)
1407 - Olivier de Clisson, French soldier (b. 1326)
1416 - Blaise/Blasius of Parma, Ital astrologist/philosopher/algebra, dies
1605 - Boris Godunov, chief adviser to Tsar Fyodor I and Tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies after a lengthy illness and a stroke at approximately 20
1616 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quixote), dies at 69
1616 - William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright (b. 1564) (Julian calendar) dies aged 52
1616 - El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Peruvian writer (b. 1539)
1625 - Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, dies at 57
1670 - Loreto Vittori, composer, dies at 69
1691 - Jean-Henri D'Anglebert, composer, dies
Playwright William Shakespeare (1616) 1695 - Henry Vaughan, poet (Silex Scintillans), dies at 72
1702 - Margaret Fell, English Quaker leader (b. 1614)
1728 - Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco, composer, dies at 83
1732 - Cajetan Kolberer, composer, dies at 63
1740 - Thomas Tickell, poet, dies
1742 - Mihael Omerza, composer, dies at 62
1762 - Johann Samuel Endler, composer, dies at 67
1774 - Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, painter, dies
1781 - James Abercrombie, British general (b. 1706)
1786 - Alexander Cozens, English water colors painter, dies at about 68
1792 - Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and adventurer (b. 1741)
1794 - Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (executed) (b. 1721)
1812 - Franz Sebastian Haindl, composer, dies at 85
1827 - Johanna C Wattier-Ziesenis, actress (Phaedra/Lady MacBeth), dies at 65
1838 - John W Janssens, gov-gen of Cape Colony/Dutch-Indies, dies at 75
1839 - Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French explorer (b. 1768)
1847 - Erik Gustaf Geijer, composer, dies at 64
1850 - William Wordsworth, poet, dies at 80
1853 - Auguste Laurent, chemist, dies
1865 - James Dearing, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 24
1878 - Friedrich Preller, landscape painter, dies
1880 - Guess Saleh, [Sarief Bastaman], Javanese painter, dies
1885 - William Henry Holmes, composer, dies at 73
1889 - Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (b. 1808)
1895 - Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig, physiologist, dies
1895 - Carl Ludwig, German physician (b. 1815)
1897 - Clement Harris, composer, dies at 25
1905 - Karel Komzak, composer, dies at 54
1905 - Gédéon Ouimet, Quebec politician (b. 1823)
1907 - Alfred Packer, American Cannibal (b. 1842)
1915 - Rupert Chawner Brooke, English poet (Lithuania), dies at 27
1918 - Percy Thomson Dean, lt-commander, killed at Zeebrugge, dies
1925 - Andre Caplet, French composer (Le miroir de Jesus), dies at 45
1926 - Joseph Pennell, artist/author, dies
1929 - Rudolf W Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen), dies at 28
1936 - Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (b. 1889)
1942 - Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, pres of Argentina (1922-28), dies at 73
1945 - Albrecht Haushofer, writer, dies at 42
1946 - Jesus Castillo, composer, dies at 68
1951 - Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865)
1952 - Elisabeth Schumann, singer, dies
1952 - Minus van Looi, [Benjamin van der Neart], Flemish writer, dies at 60
1952 - Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (b. 1887)
1955 - Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-First-Member of parliament, dies at 76
1957 - William Orlamond, actor (Flesh & Devil, Words & Music), dies at 89
1960 - Cornelis Jan Bakkerr, Dutch/US nuclear physicist, dies
1960 - Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese Christian-social reformer/writer, dies at 71
1965 - Josephina J "Fien" de la Mar, Dutch actress (Pygmalion), dies at 67
1969 - Krzystzof Komeda, composer, dies at 37
1970 - Herb Shriner, humorist/TV host (Herb Shriner Show), dies at 51
1971 - William Tubman, president of Liberia (1944-71), dies at 76
1973 - Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar, dies at 85
1975 - Pete Ham, rocker (Badfinger), commits suicide by hanging himself at 27
1975 - R D Brinkmann, writer, dies
1975 - William Hartnell, actor (Dr Who), dies at 67
1976 - James Flavin, actor (Man With a Camera), dies at 69
1976 - Ronald Radd, actor (King Lear, Up Jumped a Swagman), dies at 47
1976 - Shimen Ruskin, actor (Meyer-Corner Bar), dies at 68
1979 - Blair Peach, New Zealand-born anti-fascist (b. 1946)
1981 - Josep Pla, Catalan journalist and writer (b. 1897)
1983 - Buster Crabbe, 400m US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932), dies at 73
1983 - Selena Royale, actress (Robot Monster), dies at 78
1984 - August "Guus" Oster, actor/director (Carrie), dies at 68
1985 - Kent Smith, actor (Peyton Place, Invaders), dies at 78
1985 - Sam J Ervin Jr, (Sen-D-NC), dies at 88
1986 - Harold Arlen, [Hyman Arluck], US composer, murdered at 81
1986 - Jim Laker, cricketer (193 wkts for England at 21 24), dies
1986 - Otto Preminger, dir (Advise & Consent, Anatomy of Murder), dies at 79
1988 - Arthur Michael, Lord Ramsey/archbishop of Canterbury, dies
1990 - Albert Salmi, (Caddyshack), kills terminally ill wife & self at 62
1990 - Palmer Deane, actor (Still of the Night), dies
1990 - Paulette Goddard, actress (Hazard), dies in Switzerland at 78
1991 - Peter Bailey, Graphic designer/calligrapher, dies
1991 - Johnny Thunders, American musician (b. 1952)
1992 - Deron Johnson, 1965 NL run leader, dies of cancer at 53
1992 - Satyajit Ray, Indian director (Distant Thunder/Agantuk), dies at 70
1992 - Victoria Kellem Lederman, model, dies of amyloidosis at 52
1993 - Bertus Aafjes, poet/writer (World is a Muze), dies at 78
1993 - Lalith Athulathmudali, Sri Lankan minister, murdered at 59
1994 - Cassidy Clinton Cremer, author (John Cremer), murdered at 30
1994 - Cecile Dreesmann, son of Anton Dreesmann, dies at 74