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- 0215 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.
- 1014 The Battle of Clontarf ends Danish rule in Ireland, but a Dane kills the Irish king Brian Boru, 87
- 1343 St. George's Night Uprising
- 1348 First English order of knighthood founded (Order of the Garter)
- 1348 The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III of England is announced on St George's Day.
- 1521 Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
- 1597 Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in attendance.
- 1616 Funeral of Miguel de Cervantes, who died on April 22
- 1635 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.
- 1789 President George Washington moves into Franklin House, NY
- 1827 William Rowan Hamilton presents his Theory of systems of rays.
- 1850 Visitor posting - William Wordsworth died aged 80 - United Kingdom
- 1851 Civil engineer Sandford Fleming 1827-1915 designs the red Three-Pence Beaver stamp issued this day; the Province of Canada's first regular postage stamp
- 1861 Arkansas troops seize Fort Smith
- 1867 William Lincoln patents the zoetrope, a machine which government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution. The Grand National Assembly of Turkey was founded in Ankara.
- 1871 Blossom Rock in SF Bay blown up
- 1881 The opera "Patience or Bunthorne's Bride" is produced (London)
- 1896 Premier of motion pictures (Koster & Bial's Music Hall, NYC)
- 1896 Vitascope system of movie projection first demonstrated (NYC)
- 1904 American Academy of Arts & Letters forms
- 1906 The Alberta Legislature sets the provincial speed limit at 10 mph in the city and 20 mph in the country. , Now it's 100 in the city and 200 in the country it seems
- 1915 ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA)
- 1915 Lance-Cpl. Fredrick Fisher (Cdn. 13th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at St.Julien Belgium
- 1918 USS Stewart destroys German submarine off France
- 1920 Turkish Grand National Assembly first meets, in Ankara
- 1923 Inauguration ceremonies take place of Gdynia as a temporary military port and fishers' shelter.
- 1932 The 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, the Netherlands burns down.
- 1933 The Gestapo is established in Germany
- 1934 In first Navy movement through Panama Canal over 100 ships transitted
- 1935 Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
- 1940 Dance hall fires kills 198 (Natchez Miss)
- 1940 Rhythm Night Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi kills 198 people.
- 1941 World War II: Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the attacking Wehrmacht.
- 1942 World War II: Baedeker Blitz German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lbeck.
- 1945 In only U.S. use of guided missiles in WW II, 2 BAT missiles release at Balikiapan, Borneo
- 1947 HMS Warspite, to many this was the Royal Navy's most famous battleship. Her survival from her launch on 26th November 1913 to her loss on this date en-route to the breakers has to be at the very least a tribute to her builders for constructing a virtually indestructable ship. She formed part of the 5th Battle Squadron during the First World War. During the Second World War 1939-1946 she took part in the 2nd Battle of Narvik, and the Battle of Calabria in 1940, the battle of Matapan in 1941. This was followed by the bombardment of Normandy where she was damaged by a mine. Previously, in 1943 she was badly damaged by a glider bomb off Salerno. And all this in addition to countless other operations throughout the War. In 1946 she was sold for breaking up on the Clyde but en-route the tow parted and she went ashore in Prussia Cove, Cornwall. She was eventually broken up where she lay.
- 1948 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Haifa, the major port of Israel, is captured from Palestinian forces.
- 1949 Courtesy mail boxes for motorists started in SF
- 1949 Visitor posting - Today (Apr 23 2010) my mother would have been 61 years old - South Africa
- 1950 The first major league day game completed under lights (Phils 6, Braves 5)
- 1951 Battle of Kapyong, Korea starts
- 1955 The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.
- 1956 Project Vanguard, earth satellite launching program, assigned to DCNO (Air)
- 1961 Algiers putsch by French generals.
- 1962 Ranger 4, first US satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral
- 1964 Number one hit on UK music charts - Peter & Gordon - A World Without Love
- 1965 Launch of first Soviet communications satellite
- 1967 A group of young radicals are expelled from the Nicaraguan Socialist Party (PSN). This group goes on to found the Socialist Workers Party (POS).
- 1967 Soyuz 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes first in-flight casualty
- 1968 The United Kingdom produces its first decimalised coins, a 5p and a 10p coin.
- 1968 United Methodist Church forms
- 1968 Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university. see main article Columbia University protests of 1968
- 1969 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Beatles - Get Back
- 1969 Over 1000ý mi flooded in Shantung Province China
- 1969 Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy
- 1971 Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike
- 1971 Soyuz 10 launched; cosmonauts become first in Salyut 1 space station
- 1972 Apollo 16 astronauts explores Moon surface
- 1974 A Pan American World Airways Boeing 707 crashes in Bali, Indonesia, killing 107.
- 1974 Visitor posting - Eric Turner born this day in history - USA
- 1977 Czech chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously and only loses 10
- 1977 Dr Allen Bussey completes 20,302 yo-yo loops
- 1979 Fighting in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan Police's Special Patrol Group results in the death of protester Blair Peach.
- 1980 Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die
- 1982 Conch Republic established.
- 1982 The ZX Spectrum is released.
- 1984 In Lancaster County, Pennsylvania a 4.2 quake was centered near Marticville. It caused minor damage at Conestoga
- 1985 C Shoemaker & E Shoemake discovers asteroid #3581 Alvarez
- 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.)
- 1985 New Coke debuts later to vanish
- 1985 P Jensen discovers asteroid #3318 Blixen
- 1987 28 construction workers died when the L'Ambiance Plaza collapses while under construction in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
- 1988 Pink Floyd's album Dark Side of the Moon, after spending the record total of 741 consecutive weeks (over 14 years) on the Billboard 200, left the charts for its first time ever.
- 1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plays his last game as a Laker
- 1989 Students in Beijing China announce class boycotts
- 1990 Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1992 "Shirnada" opens at Broadhurst theater on Broadway
- 1993 Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
- 1994 Visitor posting - Randee May was born. My cat's name is Silver - USA
- 1995 Visitor posting - Linda Sophia Ovante\' was born at 4:23 am in Phoenix, Arizona. She was a beautiful baby, lokking like her father with beautiful brown eyes and a smile that lights up the world! Linda is kind and smart and spunky and trustworthy and she make this world a better place! - USA
- 1997 Omaria massacre in Algeria; 42 villagers killed.
- 2001 Visitor posting - Collin Jones was born today - USA
- 2003 Beijing closes all schools for two weeks due to the SARS virus.
- 2007 Visitor posting - The Crofton Lions Club in Hampshire established an annual "Festival of St.George" - United Kingdom [email protected]
- 2008 Visitor posting - Chris Lake's grandma passes away - USA
- 2010 Visitor posting - Steve Barnes was born this day at Ft. Carson in Colorado Springs - USA
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