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Events from History on April 23

1959 : "Destry Rides Again" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 472 perfs
1968 : "I'm Solomon" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 7 performances
1955 : "Kismet" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 583 performances
1963 : "She Loves Me" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 302 perfs
1992 : "Shirnada" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 performances
1961 : "Tenderloin" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 216 performances
1997 : "Titanic," opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
1977 : & only loses 10
1990 : 11th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1968 : 1st decimal coins issued in Britain (5 & 10 pence)
1878 : 1st Dutch test drive of steam tram
1348 : 1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of Garter)
1959 : 1st heliport in Britain opens in London
1900 : 1st know occurrence of word "hillbillie" (NY Journal)
1925 : 1st London performance of operetta "Fasquita" staged
1939 : 1st performance of B‚la Bart¢k's 2nd Concerto for violin
1960 : 1st performance of Ferde Grof‚'s "San Francisco Suite"
1962 : 1st US satellite to reach the moon launched
1987 : 28 construction workers killed in an apt collapse in Bridgeport, Ct
1997 : 32nd Academy of Country Music Awards: LeAnn Rines & Brooks & Dunn
1942 : 4-day allied bombing on Rostock begins
1988 : A Greek pedals self-powered aircraft, 74 miles
1969 : ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jim Chestney
1915 : ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA)
1977 : ADO The Hague soccer team forms
1984 : AIDS-virus identified (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
1904 : American Academy of Arts & Letters forms
1972 : Apollo 16 astronauts explores Moon surface
1861 : Arkansas troops seize Ft Smith
1994 : Army shoots to death 23-40 fishermen in Gonaives Haiti
1864 : Battle of Cane River, LA (Red River Expedition, Monett's Ferry)
1861 : Battle of San Antonio, TX
1918 : Battle of Zeebrugge ends
1991 : Bjorn Borg loses 6-2, 6-3 to Jordi Arrese after 8 year lay off
1946 : Bkln Dodger Ed Head no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
1871 : Blossom Rock in SF Bay blown up
1952 : Bob Cain of Browns & Bob Feller of Indians each pitch a one-hitter
1939 : Boston Red Sox Ted Williams hits his 1st HR
1943 : British & US offensive directed at Tunis/Bizerta
1924 : British Empire Exhibition opens at Wembley
1851 : Canada issues its 1st postage stamps
1949 : Chinese Red army conquerors Nanjing
1985 : Coca-Cola announced it is changing its secret flavor formula
1971 : Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike
1945 : Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated
1662 : Connecticut chartered as an English colony
1723 : Cornelis Steenoven elected archbishop of Utrecht
1949 : Courtesy mail boxes for motorists started in SF
1154 : Damascus surrenders to sultan Nur ad-Din van Aleppo
1940 : Dance hall fires kills 198 (Natchez Miss)
1983 : David Hookes scores his only Test Cricket century, 143* v Sri Lanka
1860 : Dem convention in Charleston SC divided over slavery
1908 : Denmark, Germany, Engld, France, Neth & Sweden signs North Sea accord
1918 : Dover Patrol overthrows Germany U-boat in East Sea
1933 : Dovo soccer team forms in Veenendaal
1977 : Dr Allen Bussey completes 20,302 yo-yo loops
1798 : Dutch emperor accepts new Constitution
1661 : English king Charles II crowned in London
1838 : English steamship "Great Western" crossing Atlantic docks in NYC
1993 : Eritrea votes to secede from Ethiopia
1988 : Federal smoking ban during domestic airline flights of 2 hrs or less
1985 : Flyers 5-Isles 3-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 3-0 lead
1953 : General Charles P Cabell, USAF, becomes deputy director of CIA
1994 : General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Norm Duke
1881 : Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Patience" produced in London
1991 : Gordon Greenidge scores 223 v Aus, his last Test Cricket knock at home
1986 : Grand Floridian Beach Resort groundbreaking
1941 : Greece Army surrenders to German Nazis
1954 : Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 1st of his 755 homers
1975 : Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land," premieres in London
1964 : Houston Colt 45s Ken Johnson becomes 1st major league pitcher to
1996 : Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Reno NV on KRZQ 96.5 FM
1910 : International Exhibition opens in Brussels
1963 : Jerry Bock & S Harnick's musical "She Loves Me," premieres in NYC
1891 : Jews are expelled from Moscow Russia
1883 : John Heemskerk Azn forms Dutch govt
1014 : King Brian Boru of Ireland beats Danes at Battle of Clontarf
1504 : King Maximilian I routes troops to Bavaria
1948 : KSTP TV channel 5 in St Paul-Minneapolis, MN (ABC) 1st broadcast
1953 : KTAR (now KPNX) TV channel 12 in Phoenix, AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting
1969 : LA Laker Jerry West scores 53 points
1965 : Launch of 1st Soviet communications satellite
1994 : Libertarian party nominates Howard Stern for Governor of NY
1916 : Lord Dunsany's "Night at an Inn," premieres in NYC
1942 : Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1993 : M”tley Cre's Mike Mars files for divorce from Emi-Canyn
1992 : Marion Berry (former mayor of Wash DC) let out of prison
1992 : McDonald's opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China
1977 : Milt workers kill 300-500 students in Addis Ababa
1826 : Missolonghi captured by Turks
1918 : National Urban League forms
1950 : Nationalist China evacuates Hainan Island
1949 : Netherlands annexes Elten & Tudderen
1616 : Netherlands buys De Briel/Vlissingen/Fort Rammekens from England
1985 : New Coke debuts
1964 : New York State Theater opens
1987 : NJ Devils farm team Maine Mariners (AHL) move to Utica (Devils) NY
1989 : Nolan Ryan blows a no hitter in 9th inning
1940 : NY Yankees dedicate a plaque to Jacob Rupert
1952 : Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias completed
1775 : Opera "Il R‚ Pastore" is produced (Salzburg)
1969 : Over 1000ý mi flooded in Shantung Province China
1925 : Pastor LH Perquin forms Union of Catholic Dutch Radio (KRO) forms
1500 : Pedro Cabral lands & annexes Brazil (Terra da Vera Cruz)
1993 : Peter Townshend's musical "Tommy," premieres in NYC
1501 : Portuguese navigator Pedro Cabral & 6 ships return to Lisbon
1896 : Premier of motion pictures (Koster & Bial's Music Hall, NYC)
1995 : Pres Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Okla City
1789 : President-elect George Washington moves into Franklin House, NY
1867 : Queen Victoria & Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel
1941 : RAF brings Greek king George II to Egypt
1962 : Ranger 4, 1st US satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral
1705 : Richard Steele's "Tender Husband," premieres in London
1932 : Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon
1969 : Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy
1996 : Sotherby begins 4 day auction of Jackie O stuff-take in $34.5 million
1980 : Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die
1967 : Soyuz 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes 1st in-flight casualty
1971 : Soyuz 10 launched; cosmonauts become 1st in Salyut 1 space station
1989 : Students in Beijing China announce class boycotts
1938 : Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self government
1633 : Sweden & Protestant German monarchy form Union of Heilbronn
1920 : Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets, in Ankara
1968 : United Methodist Church forms
1956 : US Supreme court ends race segregation on buses
1945 : US troops in Italy cross river Po
1991 : USSR grants republics right to secede under certain conditions
1974 : USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1896 : Vitascope system of movie projection 1st demonstrated (NYC)
1953 : WCOV TV channel 20 in Montgomery, AL (IND/CBS) begins broadcasting
1795 : William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason

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