Interesting things that happened April 23rd:
Birthdays on this date:
In 1564 William Shakespeare, bard
In 1616 Miguel DeCervantes Saavedra dies.
+ William Shakespeare dies.
In 1791 James Buchanan, 15th President (1857-1861)
In 1813 Stephen Douglas, the "Little Giant", debated Lincoln
In 1891 Sergei Prokofiev, composer
In 1921 Janet Blair (in Altoona, PA), singer, actor (My Sister Eileen)
In 1928 ****rley Temple Black (in Santa Monica, CA), child actor, U.S.
ambassador
In 1932 Halston, fa****on designer
In 1936 Roy Orbison, musician
In 1940 Bernadette Devlin McAliskey (in Ireland), nationalist
+ Lee Majors, actor (Big Valley, Owen Marshall, Six Million Dollar
Man)
In 1942 Sandra Dee (in Bayonne, NJ), actor
+ Phil Esposito
In 1943 Herve Villechaize, actor (Man with the Golden Gun, Fantasy
Island)
In 1949 Joyce DeWitt (in Wheeling, WV), actor
In 1957 Jan Hooks (in Decatur, Georgia), actor (SNL)
In 1960 Valerie Bertinelli, actor (One Day at a Time)
Events worth noting:
In 1789 President George Wa****ngton moves into Franklin House, New York.
In 1861 Arkansas troops seize Fort Smith.
In 1871 Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay blown up.
In 1896 First "moving pictures" are shown on a public screen in New York
called the VITASCOPE system.
In 1920 The Turkish Grand National Assembly met for the first time.
In 1940 Yanks dedicate a plaque to Jacob Rupert.
In 1949 Courtesy Mail Boxes for motorists started in San Francisco.
In 1954 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits the first of his 755 homers.
In 1962 Ranger 4, First American spacecraft to reach moon launched from
Cape
Canaveral.
In 1967 Russia launches first Soyuz mission.
In 1968 The United Methodist Church founded.
In 1969 Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy.
In 1972 Apollo 16 astronauts explore the surface of the moon.
In 1985 New Coke debuts, tastes too much like Pepsi.
In 1999 NATO planes bomb civilian radio-TV headquarters in Belgrade.
And remember ...
America's Heartland Development Month
Cancer Control Month
Math Education Month
National Poetry Month
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