About April 23
April 23, 2021 is the 113th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 252 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 284 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.
- 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.
- 1910 –Theodore Roosevelt made his The Man in the Arena speech.
- 1920 –The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara.
- 1932 –The 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, Netherlands burns down. It is rebuilt and reopens exactly 70 years later.
- 1940 –The Rhythm Night Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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