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On this Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on April 23:
1484 Julius Cæsar Scaliger Italy, scholar (On the Subtlety of Things)
1551 Boris Godunov tsar of Muscovy (1598-1605) in Time of Troubles
1564 William Shakespeare Stratford-on-Avon England, bard (Hamlet, MacBeth, Julius Cæsar)
1697 George Baron Anson British Admiral/explorer
1728 Samuel Wallis explorer (Wallis Island)
1775 Joseph Mallord Turner England, landscape painter (Shipwreck)
1791 James Buchanan Cove Gap PA, (Federalist/Democrat), 15th US President (1857-61)
1813 Stephen Arnold Douglas [Little Giant] US Senator (Lincoln debates)
1818 John Gill Shorter Governor (Confederacy), died in 1872
1823 Abdül-Medjid 31st sultan of Turkey (1839-61)
1852 Edwin Markham US, poet (1st winner of Amer Academy of Poets Award 1937)
1858 Max Ludwig Planck German physicist (Quanta Physics, Planck Constant, Nobel 1918)
1891 Sergey Prokofiev Ukraine, composer (Peter & the Wolf)
1896 Margaret Kennedy novelist
1897 Lester Bowles Pearson (L) 14th Canadian PM (1963-68) (Nobel 1957)
1897 Lucius du Bignon Clay US, General (WWII)/Governor (West Germany)
1904 Duncan Renaldo Spain, actor (Cisco Kid)
1906 Maria Arnoldo [Adrianus Broeders], photographer/writer
1910 Simone Simon France, actress (All Money Can Buy, Ladies in Love)
1916 Bud Wilkinson college football coach (Oklahoma)
1917 Jacob Kistemaker nuclear physicist (ultra centrifuge)
1921 Warren Spahn left-handed pitcher (Boston/Milwaukee Braves)
1923 Nathan "Dambuzza" Mdledle singer (played a major role in the evolution of South African music)
1926 Virgil I [Gus] Grissom astronaut (Liberty Bell 7, Gemini 3)
1928 Shirley Temple Black Santa Monica CA, child actress (Heidi)/ambassador (UN)
1930 Michael Bowen Roman Catholic Archbishop (Southwark)
1932 Halston [R Halston Frowick] fashion designer (1972 Hall of Fame)
1932 Jim Fixx jogger/writer (Jim Fixx on Running)
1936 Roy Orbison Vernon TX, rocker (Oh Pretty Woman, Only The Lonely)
1938 Steven D Symms (Senator-Republican-ID, 1981- )
1939 Lee Majors [Harvey Lee Yearly] Wyandotte MI, TV actor (Big Valley, $6,000,000 Man, Fall Guy)
1939 Ray Peterson Denton TX, singer (Tell Laura I Love Her)
1940 Richard Monaco US, sci-fi author (Grail War, Final Quest)
1943 Herve Villechaize France, "Da Plane! Da Plane!" (Fantasy Island)
1943 Tony Esposito Ontario Canada, NHL goalie (Chicago Blackhawks)
1944 Sandra Dee [Alexandra Zuck] Bayonne NJ, actress (Gidget, A Summer Place, Tammy and the Doctor, Imitation of Life)
1947 Bernadette Devlin McAliskey Ireland, political "activist"
1949 Joyce DeWitt Wheeling WV, actress (Janet Wood-Three's Company)
1960 Steve Clark Hillsborough England, rock guitarist (Def Leppard-Hysteria)
1960 Valerie Bertinelli Wilmington DE, actress(One Day at a Time, Sydney)/ Mrs Eddie Van Halen

Deaths which occurred on April 23:
0034 Christ crucified, (according to Isaac Newton)
0303 George knight of Cappadocië/saint/patron of England, beheaded
0871 Ethelred I king of Wessex/brother of Alfred the Great, dies
1014 Brian Boru king of Ireland, dies in battle at 87
1014 Sweyn Forkbeard Viking king of England (1013-14), dies
1016 Aethelbred II "the Unready" king of England (979-1016), dies
1616 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Spanish writer (Don Quixote), dies at 69
1616 William Shakespeare English author (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet), dies on his 52nd birthday
1812 Franz Sebastian Handel composer, dies at 85
1865 James Dearing US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 24
1918 Percy Thomson Dean Lieutenant-commander, killed at Zeebrugge, dies
1960 Cornelis Jan Bakkerr Dutch/US nuclear physicist, dies
1960 Toyohiko Kagawa Japanese Christian-social reformer/writer, dies at 71
1962 Stirling Moss auto racer, killed while racing at 32
1970 Herb Shriner humorist/TV host (Herb Shriner Show), dies at 51
1973 Otto Eissfeldt German old testament scholar, dies at 85
1975 William Hartnell actor (Dr Who), dies at 67
1983 Buster Crabbe 400 meter US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932)/actor, dies from a heart attack in Scottsdale AZ at 76
1983 Selena Royale actress (Robot Monster), dies at 78
1985 Sam J Ervin Jr (Senator-Democrat-NC), dies at 88
1986 Otto Preminger director (Advise & Consent, Anatomy of Murder), dies at 79
1988 Arthur Michael Lord Ramsey/archbishop of Canterbury, dies
1990 Albert Salmi (Caddyshack), kills terminally ill wife & self at 62
1990 Paulette Goddard actress (Hazard), dies of heart failure in Ronco Switzerland at 78
1993 Lalith Athulathmudali Sri Lankan minister, murdered at 59
1995 Howard Cosell sportscaster (Monday Night Football), dies at 77
1995 John Stennis (Senator-Democrat-MS), dies at 93
1995 Lonesome Sundown blues singer/guitarist, dies at 66

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1966 DYCZKOWSKI ROBERT R.---BUFFALO NY.
1966 GOSS BERNARD JOSEPH---SYRACUSE NY.
[08/78 REMAINS RETURNED]
1970 EADS DENNIS K.---PROPHETSTOWN IL.
1970 GOMEZ ROBERT A.---JACKSONVILLE FL.
1970 LUCKI AUBIN E.---SALT LAKE CITY UT.
1970 LITTLE DANNY L.---ABILENE TX.
1970 MURPHY LARRON D.---DALTON GA.

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

On this day...
1014 King Brian Boru of Ireland beats Danes at Battle of Clontarf
1154 Damascus surrenders to sultan Nur ad-Din van Aleppo
1348 1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of the Garter)
1500 Pedro Álvarez Cabral lands & annexes Brazil (Terra da Vera Cruz)
1633 Sweden & Protestant German monarchy form Union of Heilbronn
1661 English king Charles II crowned in London
1662 Connecticut chartered as an English colony
1789 President-elect George Washington moves into Franklin House, New York
1795 William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason
1851 Canada issues its 1st postage stamps
1860 Democratic convention in Charleston SC divided over slavery
1861 Arkansas troops seize Fort Smith
1861 Battle of San Antonio TX
1864 Battle of Cane River LA (Red River Expedition, Monett's Ferry)
1867 Queen Victoria & Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel
1871 Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay blown up
1891 Jews are expelled from Moscow Russia
1896 Vitascope system of movie projection 1st demonstrated (Koster & Bial's Music Hall, NYC)
1900 1st known occurrence of word "hillbillie" (New York Journal)
1904 American Academy of Arts & Letters forms
1908 Denmark, Germany, England, France, Netherlands & Sweden signs North Sea accord
1915 ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA)
1916 Lord Dunsany's "Night at an Inn", premieres in NYC
1918 National Urban League forms
1919 Major leagues open a reduced 140-game season
1920 Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets, in Ankara
1932 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon
1938 Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self government
1939 1st performance of Béla Bartók's 2nd Concerto for violin
1941 Greece Army surrenders to German Nazi's RAF brings Greek king George II to Egypt
1942 4-day allied bombing on Rostock begins
1943 British & US offensive directed at Tunis/Bizerta
1945 Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated
1945 US troops in Italy cross river Po
1948 KSTP TV channel 5 in St Paul-Minneapolis MN (ABC) 1st broadcast
1949 Chinese Red army conquerors Nanjing
1950 Nationalist China evacuates Hainan Island
1952 New York Giant Hoyt Wilhelm wins his 1st relief game & hits his only homerun
1953 KTAR (now KPNX) TV channel 12 in Phoenix AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 1st of his 755 homers
1956 US Supreme court ends race segregation on buses
1959 "Destry Rides Again" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 472 performances
1962 New York Mets win their 1st game ever, after going 0-9, beat Pittsburgh Pirates 9-1
1965 Launch of 1st Soviet communications satellite
1967 Soyuz 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes 1st in-flight casualty when its parachute lines became tangled and the parachutes failed to open properly upon return to Earth
1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
1969 Over 1000 square miles flooded in Shantung Province China
1969 Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy
1971 Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike
1972 Apollo 16 astronauts explore Moon surface
1977 Czechoslovakian chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously & only loses 10
1977 Dr Allen Bussey completes 20,302 yo-yo loops
1980 Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die
1984 AIDS-virus identified (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
1985 Coca-Cola announced it is changing its secret flavor formula
1987 28 construction workers killed in an apartment building collapse in Bridgeport CT
1988 Federal smoking ban during domestic airline flights of 2 hours or less
1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plays his last game as a Los Angeles Laker
1991 USSR grants republics right to secede under certain conditions
1992 Marion Berry (former mayor of Washington DC) is released from prison
1992 McDonald's opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China
1993 Eritrea votes to secede from Ethiopia
1994 Libertarian party nominates Howard Stern for Governor of New York
1995 President Bill Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City bombing victims
1996 A Bronx civil-court jury ordered Bernhard Goetz to pay $43 million to Darrell Cabey, one of four young men he'd shot on a subway car in 1984.
1997 The military confirmed that two pieces of wreckage found on a snowy Rocky Mountain peak were from the Air Force warplane that had vanished on a training mission over Arizona.
2000 Elian Gonzalez spent a secluded Easter with his father at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, a day after the 6-year-old boy was removed from his Miami relatives' home in a pre-dawn raid by immigration agents.

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

England : St. Georges Day
Spain : Book Day/Lover's Day
Bermuda : Peppercorn Day
Turkey : National Sovereignty Day/Children's Day (1923)
US : National Lingerie Week (Day 6)
US : National Dream Weekend
Zoo and Aquarium Month.

Religious Observances
Ancient Rome : Vinalia (grape harvest), honoring Jupiter
Roman Catholic : Memorial of St George, dragon slayer, patron of England (optional)
Lutheran : Commemoration of Toyohiko Kagawa, renewer of society

Religious History
33 Christian tradition says the Jesus Christ, crucified three days earlier, was raised from the dead -- marking this date as the very first Easter. (The next time Easter falls on April 23rd will be in the year 2000.)
1586 Birth of Martin Rinkart, German clergyman and Latin scholar. Rinkart, a prolific writer, penned the German hymn which begins: "Nun danket alle Gott..." ("Now Thank We All Our God").
1779 Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: '"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.'
1789 What is believed to have been the first Catholic newspaper in America, "The Courier de Boston" published its first issue. (The periodical lasted only until October 15th of this same year.)
1968 In Dallas, the 10.3 million-member Methodist and the 750 thousand-member Evangelical United Brethren churches joined together to form the United Methodist Church. The merger made this the second largest Protestant denomination in the United States (after the Southern Baptists).

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

Thought for the day :
"Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"

Martha Stewart's Way vs. The Real Woman's Way...
Martha's Way #4: If you accidentally oversalt a dish while it's still cooking, drop in a peeled potato and it will absorb the excess salt for an instant "fix me up."
Real Woman's Way #4: If you oversalt a dish while you are cooking, that's just too bad. Please recite with me the Real Woman's motto: "I made it and you will eat it."

New State Slogans...
Vermont: Looks like New Hampshire, but upside-down.

Female Language Patterns...
"Uh huh." REALLY MEANS,
"Did you say something? Oh well, whatever it was it must not have been that important."

Male Language Patterns...
"Hey, I've read all the classics." REALLY MEANS,
"I've been subscribing to Playboy since 1972."