WikiRug:Selected anniversaries/April 23
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Charles de Gaulle
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Edmund Ironside
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Hall of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
The Golden Dome at the University of Notre Dame, built following the 1879 fire
William Rowan Hamilton
Jan Brewer
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| World Book Day; | refimprove |
| National Sovereignty and Children's Day in Turkey | 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, unreferenced section |
| 1920 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey, the Turkish unicameral parliament, was founded in Ankara in the midst of the Turkish War of Independence. | refimprove section |
| 1923 – Gdynia was inaugurated as a Polish seaport on the coast of Gdańsk Bay, a southwestern bay of the Baltic Sea. | refimprove section, 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 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, the main road into the city. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1014 – Irish forces led by Brian Boru clashed with the Vikings in the Battle of Clontarf.
- 1016 – Edmund Ironside became King of England, reigning for only seven months before the country was conquered by Cnut the Great.
- 1661 – Charles II, King of England, Ireland, and Scotland, was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
- 1918 – First World War: The British Royal Navy conducted an unsuccessful raid on the German-occupied port of Bruges-Zeebrugge in Belgium.
- 1927 – Cardiff City defeated Arsenal 1–0 to win the FA Cup, the only time the trophy has been won by a team outside England.
- 1942 – Second World War: In retaliation for the Royal Air Force bombing of Lübeck several weeks prior, the Luftwaffe began a series of bombing raids in England, starting with Exeter.
- 1951 – American journalist William N. Oatis was arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
- 1954 – Batting against Vic Raschi of the St. Louis Cardinals, Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit the first of his record-setting 755 home runs in Major League Baseball.
- 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.
- 2010 – Governor of Arizona Jan Brewer signed the controversial anti-illegal immigration bill SB 1070 into law, much of which was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Born/died this day: Joan of France (b. 1464) · Karl Friedrich Bahrdt (d. 1792) · Shirley Temple (b. 1928) · Kathy Lynch (b. 1957) · Satyajit Ray (d. 1992)
- 1348 – The first appointments to the Order of the Garter, an order of chivalry founded by King Edward III of England, were announced.
- 1516 – The best-known version of the Reinheitsgebot, the German Beer Purity Law, was adopted across the entirety of Bavaria.
- 1879 – A fire destroyed the second version of the Main Building (pictured) of the University of Notre Dame.
- 1979 – Activist Blair Peach suffered fatal head injuries when he was knocked unconscious during an Anti-Nazi League demonstration in Southall, London, against a National Front election meeting in the town hall.
- 2009 – Gamma-ray burst GRB 090423 was detected, coming from the most distant astronomical object of any kind known at the time.
William Shakespeare (d. 1616) · Pandita Ramabai (b. 1858) · Halston (b. 1932)