About April 23
April 23, 2022 is the 113th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 252 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 274 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.
- 1016 –Edmund Ironside succeeds his father Æthelred the Unready as king of England,
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1927 –Turkey becomes the first country to celebrate Children’s Day as a national holiday.
- 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.
- 1955 –The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.
- 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.
- 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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