April 23 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 242 days remaining until the end of time.
1705 Richard Steele's "Tender Husband" premieres in London.
1871 Blossom Rock is blown up in San Francisco Bay, which, to my thinking, is a horrible thing to do to an old lady.
1900 1st know occurrence of word "hillbillie" (New York Journal)
1954 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits his first homerun. Babe Ruth starts spinning in his grave
1961 "Greatest Single Night in Show Business History:" Judy Garland performs at Carnegie Hall.
1977 Dr. Allen Bussey completes 20,302 yo-yo loops and inspires the YoYo Man.
1984 AIDS-virus is identified in a police line-up but mysteriously is not arrested.
1985 Coca-Cola introduces New Coke after changing its secret flavor formula
1991 U.S.S.R. grants republics right to secede under certain conditions, one being they never ever fly this flag
1992 Marion Berry, former mayor of Washington D.C., is let out of prison to run for mayor again.
1992 McDonald's opens its 1st restaurant in China. On behalf of my countrymen, I apologize, China!
1993 Eritrea votes to secede from Ethiopia which really pisses off Ethiopia. A look at the map can explain why.
1993 Peter Townshend's musical of the rock opera "Tommy" premieres in New York City
2009 The gamma ray burst GRB 090423 it's observed for 10 seconds as the most distant object of any kind and also the oldest known object in the universe.
303 George, knight/saint/patron of Aragon, Catalonia, England, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, and Russia, feels the flames and sees the light when the dragon gets him.
1616 William Shakespeare, English Dramatist, watches his too, too solid flesh melt
1915 Rupert Chawner Brooke, gay English poet (Lithuania), whose good looks prompted the Irish poet William Butler Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England," makes all the boys and girls cry.
1995 Howard Cosell, US attorney/sportscaster (Monday Night Football), provides color commentary to Judgment Day trials.
2007 Boris Yeltsin, first President of the Russian Federation, is not remembered as the “Father” of his country, but the “Mutha”
2011 Noxolo Nogwaza, South African lesbian activist/martyr, takes one for the home team.
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