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,
- 1521 –Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
- 1635 –The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1660 –Treaty of Oliwa is established between Sweden and Poland.
- 1661 –King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1940 –The Rhythm Night Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
- 1942 –World War II: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
- 1949 –Chinese Civil War: Establishment of the People’s Liberation Army Navy.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2003 –Beijing closes all schools for two weeks because of the SARS virus.
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