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What happened in history on this day: April 23?
On April 23 in ...
- 1783 - Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris submits examples of pattern 1783 Nova Constellatio coins to Congress.
- 1861 - Arkansas troops seize Fort Smith.
- 1861 - Battle of San Antonio, Texas.
- 1864 - Battle of Cane River, Louisiana (Red River Expedition, Monett's Ferry).
- 1865 - James Dearing, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at age 24.
- 1871 - Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay is blown up.
- 1896 - Vitascope system of movie projection first demonstrated (Koster and Bial's Music Hall, New York City).
- 1898 - US President William McKinley calls for 125,000 volunteers for war duty.
- 1900 - First known occurrence of word "hillbillie" (New York Journal).
- 1904 - American Academy of Arts and Letters forms.
- 1915 - ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA).
- 1918 - The Pittman Silver Coinage Act is approved, mandating the melting of up to 350 million silver dollar coins, and sale of silver bullion from US Treasury stock.
- 1940 - Dance hall fire kills 198 in Natchez, Mississippi, USA.
- 1943 - British and US offensive directed at Tunis/Bizerta.
- 1945 - US troops in Italy cross river Po.
- 1953 - General Charles P Cabell, US Air Force, becomes deputy director of US Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1956 - US Supreme court ends race segregation on buses.
- 1962 - Ranger 4, first US satellite to reach Moon, launched from Cape Canaveral.
- 1964 - New York State Theater opens.
- 1969 - Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing US Senator Robert Kennedy.
- 1971 - Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike.
- 1972 - 26th Tony Awards: Sticks and Bones and Two Gentlemen of Verona win.
- 1982 - Dennis Wardlow, Mayor of Key West, Florida, declares the independent Conch Republic for a day.
- 1984 - In Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, a magnitude 4.4 earthquake occurs.
- 1985 - Coca-Cola changes its secret flavor formula and releases New Coke.
- 1987 - 28 construction workers are killed in an apartment building (under construction) collapse in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
- 1988 - US Federal smoking ban begins during domestic airline flights of two hours or less.
- 1992 - Marion Berry (former mayor of Washington DC) is released from prison.
- 1995 - President Bill Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City bombing victims.
- 1997 - 32nd Academy of Country Music Awards: LeAnn Rines, Brooks and Dunn win.
- 2003 - US President George W. Bush signs legislation authorizing changes to the design of the 5-cent coin through 2005, to commemorate the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark expedition.
- 2010 - The X-37B unmanned military prototype spaceplane is launched atop an Atlas V rocket into orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The 9m long reusable spaceplane is about one-quarter the size of the space shuttle.
- 2023 - American retailer Bed Bath & Beyond files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and announces plans to close its 360 stores.
Births on April 23
- 1791 - Birth of James Buchanan in Cove Gap, Pennsylvania, USA; Federalist/Democrat, 15th US President (1857-61).
- 1893 - Birth of Frank Borzage in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo).
- 1914 - Birth of John Hubbard in Indiana Harbor, Indiana, USA; actor (Don't Call Me Charlie).
- 1921 - Birth of Janet Blair in Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Leave it to the Girls, Smith Family).
- 1924 - Birth of Arthur Frackenpohl in Irving, New Jersey, USA; composer (Natural Superiority of Music).
- 1926 - Birth of James P Donleavy in Brooklyn, New York, USA; novelist (The Ginger Man, Onion Eaters).
- 1928 - Birth of Shirley Temple Black in Santa Monica, California, USA; child actress (Heidi)/ambassador (United Nations).
- 1930 - Birth of Alan Oppenheimer in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Six Million Dollar Man, Eischied).
- 1936 - Birth of Roy Orbison in Vernon, Texas, USA; rocker ("Pretty Woman", "Only The Lonely") (dies 1988).
- 1937 - Birth of Don Massengale in Jackson, Texas, USA; PGA golfer (1966 Bing Crosby Celebrity).
- 1939 - Birth of David Birney in Washington DC, USA; actor (Brigette Loves Bernie, St. Elsewhere).
- 1939 - Birth of Lee Majors [Harvey Lee Yearly] in Wyandotte, Michigan, USA; TV actor (Big Valley, The Six Million Dollar Man, Fall Guy).
- 1939 - Birth of Ray Peterson in Denton, Texas, USA; singer ("Tell Laura I Love Her").
- 1944 - Birth of Sandra Dee [Alexandra Zuck] in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA; actress (Gidget, A Summer Place, Tammy and the Doctor, Imitation of Life).
- 1949 - Birth of Blair Brown in Washington DC, USA; actress (Altered States, Molly Dodd).
- 1949 - Birth of Joyce DeWitt in Wheeling, West Virginia, USA; actress (Janet Wood - Three's Company).
- 1952 - Birth of Lionel Johnston in Augusta, Georgia, USA; actor (Sons and Daughters).
- 1952 - Birth of Narada Michael Walden in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA; rocker/producer ("I Don't Want Nobody Else", "I Shoulda Loved Ya").
- 1953 - Birth of Fred Upton; American politician (Representative-Republican-Michigan).
- 1953 - Birth of James Russo in New York City, New York, USA; actor (My Own Private Idaho, China Girl).
- 1956 - Birth of Peter Teravainen in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; Australasia golfer.
- 1957 - Birth of Jan Hooks in Decatur, Georgia, USA; comedienne actress (Saturday Night Live, Designing Women).
- 1960 - Birth of Joseph Martin Mudd in Louisville, Kentucky, USA; PGA golfer (1988 Federal Express).
- 1960 - Birth of Valerie Bertinelli in Wilmington, Delaware, USA; actress (One Day at a Time, Sydney).
- 1964 - Birth of Dan Frischman in Whippany, New Jersey, USA; actor (Arvid Engen - Head of the Class).
- 1966 - Birth of Richard Greenwood in Los Angeles, California, USA; Canadian Tour golfer (1990 Napa Valley).
- 1967 - Birth of Melina Kanakaredes in Akron, Ohio, USA; actress (Dr Sydney Hanson - Providence, Eleni Andros - Guiding Light).
- 1968 - Birth of Susan Emily Savastano in East Providence, Rhode Island, USA; Miss Rhode Island-America (1991).
- 1971 - Birth of Chuck Adams in Pacific Palisades, California, USA; tennis star (1989 USTA Boys).
- 1987 - Birth of Emily Fox; American cupstacking champion.
Deaths on April 23
- 1865 - James Dearing, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at age 24.
- 1951 - Death of Charles Keck in New York City, New York, USA; American sculptor (Stonewall Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, James Duke, Booker T. Washington, Liberty Monument, Boy with Fish, Pandora's Box, statue of Mohammed), coin designer (US 1915 Panama-Pacific gold dollar, 1927 Vermont Sesquicentennial half dollar, 1936 Lynchburg Sesquicentennial half dollar).
- 1960 - Cornelis Jan Bakkerr, Dutch/US nuclear physicist, dies.
- 1974 - Carl Barnett dies at age 59 of a heart attack while conducting Bach's Come, Sweet Death at the Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- 1983 - Buster Crabbe, 400 metre US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932)/actor, dies from a heart attack in Scottsdale, Arizona at age 76.
- 1985 - Sam J Ervin Junior, American politician (Senator-Democrat-North Carolina) dies at age 88.
- 1986 - Harold Arlen [Hyman Arluck], American music composer, murdered at age 81 (born 1905).
- 1995 - John Stennis, American politician (Senator-Democrat-Mississippi), dies at age 93.
- 1998 - Death of James Earl Ray, convicted American assassin of Martin Luther King Junior. (born 1928).
- 2022 - Death of Wynn Bruce at age 50 after setting himself on fire the previous day in Washington DC; environmental activist.
- 2022 - Death of Orrin Hatch at age 88; US Republican Senator from Utah.
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