Historical Events In April - 23

1969 Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy

1971 Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike

1971 Soyuz 10 launched; cosmonauts become first in Salyut 1 space station

1972 Apollo 16 astronauts explores Moon surface

1976 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2808

1977 Czech chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously and only loses 10

1977 Dr Allen Bussey completes 20,302 yo-yo loops

1980 Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die

1984 In Lancaster County, Pennsylvania a 4.2 quake was centered near Marticville. It caused minor damage at Conestoga

1985 C Shoemaker & E Shoemake discovers asteroid #3581 Alvarez

1985 New Coke debuts later to vanish

1985 P Jensen discovers asteroid #3318 Blixen

1987 28 construction workers killed in an apt collapse in Bridgeport, Ct

1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plays his last game as a Laker

1989 Students in Beijing China announce class boycotts

1992 "Shirnada" opens at Broadhurst theater on Broadway

1348 English order of knighthood founded

1661 King Charles II crowned the King of Great Britain and Ireland

1965 The USSR launch its first communications satellite

1967 Russian Vladimir Komarov becomes the first man to make two spaceflights

1984 The United States announce the discovery of the AIDS virus

1564 The birth of William Shakespeare, English playwright

1775 The birth of J.M Turner, English artist

1858 The birth of Max Planck, German physicist

1899 The birth of Vladimir Nabokov, Russian/American writer

1926 The birth of James Donleavey, Irish novelist

1928 The birth of Shirley Temple, American film star

2005 Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister of Italy, re-forms government after its dissolution three days earlier.

2005 Death of Sir John Mills, English actor (b. 1908)2007 Bogotá, Colombia, begins its term as World Book Capital.

2009 e gamma ray bur GRB 090423 it's observed for 10 seconds as e mo diant object of any kind and also e olde known object in e universe.

2009 e gamma ray bur GRB 090423 it's observed for 10 seconds as e mo diant object of any kind and also e olde known object in e universe.

2009 e gamma ray bur GRB 090423 it's observed for 10 seconds as e mo diant object of any kind and also e olde known object in e universe.

2009 e gamma ray bur GRB 090423 it's observed for 10 seconds as e mo diant object of any kind and also e olde known object in e universe.

2009 e gamma ray bur GRB 090423 it's observed for 10 seconds as e mo diant object of any kind and also e olde known object in e universe.

2009 e gamma ray bur GRB 090423 it's observed for 10 seconds as e mo diant object of any kind and also e olde known object in e universe.

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