About April 23
April 23, 2024 is the 114th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 252 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 281 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 23
- 215 BC –A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
- 1014 –Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.
- 1016 –Edmund Ironside succeeds his father Æthelred the Unready as king of England,
- 1343 –Estonia: St. George’s Night Uprising.
- 1635 –The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1661 –King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
- 1910 –Theodore Roosevelt made his The Man in the Arena speech.
- 1918 –World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
- 1920 –The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara.
- 1920 –The national council in Turkey denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution.
- 1927 –Turkey becomes the first country to celebrate Children’s Day as a national holiday.
- 1932 –The 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, Netherlands burns down. It is rebuilt and reopens exactly 70 years later.
- 1935 –The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
- 1941 –World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
- 1942 –World War II: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
- 1951 –American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
- 1955 –The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.
- 1961 –Algiers putsch by French generals.
- 1968 –Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
- 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 3 months.
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