Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 23
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Skanderbeg
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Charles de Gaulle
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Hank Aaron
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Hank Aaron
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Hall of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
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The Golden Dome at the University of Notre Dame, built following the 1879 fire
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The Main Administration Building of the University of Notre Dame, which burned down on April 21, 1879
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William Rowan Hamilton
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Jan Brewer
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Can of New Coke
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ZX Spectrum
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Medal depicting Charles II
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1927 FA Cup programme
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| World Book Day; | refimprove |
| Saint George's Day in various countries; | refimprove section |
| 1827 – Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton presented his Theory of Systems of Rays. | refimprove section |
| 1879 – A fire destroyed the second version of the Main Building of the University of Notre Dame, one of the oldest Catholic universities in the United States. | incomplete citations/page numbers missing |
| 1923 – Gdynia was inaugurated as a Polish seaport on the coast of Gdańsk Bay, a southwestern bay of the Baltic Sea. | expansion |
| 1935 – Poland adopted a new constitution, introducing a presidential system with certain elements of authoritarianism. | Stubby, no footnotes |
| 1961 – In the midst of the Algerian War, French President Charles de Gaulle delivered a televised speech calling on military personnel and civilians to oppose a coup d'état attempt against him. | refimprove section |
| 1968 – Students protesting the Vietnam War at Columbia University in New York City took over administration buildings and shut down the university. | neutrality issues, refimprove section |
| 1982 – The ZX Spectrum (pictured), Britain's best-selling microcomputer, was released. | Lots of uncited material |
| 1982 – The city of Key West, Florida, facetiously declared independence from the United States to protest a United States Border Patrol roadblock and inspection point along [[U.S. Route 1|U.S. Template:Nowrap]], the main road into the city. | refimprove section |
| * 1516 – The best-known version of the Reinheitsgebot, a German law on the purity of beer, was adopted in Bavaria. | Number of uncited parts |
| * 1016 – Edmund Ironside became King of England, reigning for only seven months before the country was conquered by Cnut the Great. | Section tagged for referencing |
| * 1985 – The Coca-Cola Company replaced its flagship soft drink, Coca-Cola, with "New Coke", which generated so much negative response that the company put the previous formula back on the market less than three months later. | Citations needed |
| Shirley Temple |b|1928 | tag |
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- 1348 – The first knights of the Order of the Garter, an order of chivalry founded by King Edward III of England, were appointed.
- 1467 – Albanian commander Skanderbeg entered Krujë, breaking a 10-month siege by Ottoman forces.
- 1661 – Charles II was crowned King of England, Scotland and Ireland at Westminster Abbey.
- 1685 – Succeeding Charles II, his late brother, James II was crowned King of England, becoming last Catholic to hold the title.
- 1724 – Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104, illustrating the topic of the Good Shepherd in pastoral music.
- 1891 – Chilean Civil War: The armored frigate Blanco Encalada was sunk at the Battle of Caldera Bay, the first ironclad warship lost to a self-propelled torpedo.
- 1918 – First World War: The British Royal Navy launched unsuccessful raids on Ostend and Zeebrugge in German-occupied Belgium.
- 1920 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey, the country's unicameral legislature, first met in Ankara in the midst of the Turkish War of Independence.
- 1927 – Cardiff City defeated Arsenal Template:Nowrap in the FA Cup final (match programme pictured) in the only time the FA Cup has been won by a non-English team.
- 1942 – Second World War: In retaliation for the Royal Air Force's bombing of Lübeck, the Luftwaffe began a series of air raids across England, beginning with Exeter.
- 1951 – American journalist William N. Oatis was arrested for espionage by the communist government of Czechoslovakia.
- 1954 – Batting for the Milwaukee Braves against Vic Raschi of the St. Louis Cardinals, Hank Aaron hit the first of his 755 home runs in Major League Baseball.
- 1971 – The Rolling Stones released Sticky Fingers, the first album on their own label, Rolling Stones Records.
- 2009 – The gamma-ray burst GRB 090423 was detected coming from the most distant astronomical object of any kind known at the time.
- 2010 – Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed into law the controversial anti–illegal immigration bill SB 1070, much of which was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
- 2019 – A landslide triggered the collapse of a jade mine in Hpakant, Myanmar, resulting in six confirmed deaths and presumed dozens more.
- Born/died this day: | Wihtred of Kent |d|725| Béla III of Hungary |d|1196| Joan of Acre |d|1307| Karl Friedrich Bahrdt |d|1792| Jim Bottomley |b|1900| Halston |b|1932| Roy Orbison |b|1936| Kathy Lynch |b|1957| Leni Robredo|b|1965| summit1g|b|1987
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April 23: National Sovereignty and Children's Day in Turkey (1920) Template:Main page image/OTD
- 1467 – Ottoman wars in Europe: Albanian leader Skanderbeg defeated an Ottoman army under Ballaban Badera to raise the siege of Krujë.
- 1945 – World War II: The US Army's 90th Infantry Division liberated Flossenbürg concentration camp (pictured) in Germany, freeing 1,500 prisoners.
- 1976 – The American band the Ramones released their debut album, which became highly influential on the emerging punk rock movement.
- 1979 – Blair Peach, a New Zealand teacher, was fatally injured while taking part in an Anti-Nazi League demonstration against a National Front election meeting in Southall, London.
- 2018 – A man intentionally struck pedestrians with a van on Yonge Street in Toronto, Canada, leading to 11 deaths.