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.
- 1343 –Estonia: St. George’s Night Uprising.
- 1348 –The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St George’s Day.
- 1521 –Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
- 1660 –Treaty of Oliwa is established between Sweden and Poland.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1935 –The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
- 1940 –The Rhythm Night Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
- 1941 –World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
- 1951 –American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
- 1961 –Algiers putsch by French generals.
- 1967 –Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) is a manned spaceflight, Launched into orbit carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov.
- 1968 –Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
- 1990 –Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1993 –Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
- 1997 –Omaria massacre in Algeria: 42 villagers are killed.
- 2003 –Beijing closes all schools for two weeks because of the SARS virus.
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