On this day: April 23rd

On this day: April 23rd

There are many and several events on this day in history. Read and discover what happened on this day: On this day: April 23rd

On this day: April 23rd

Events On this day: April 23rd

• 1954: Hank Aaron hits his first major league home run.

  1956: Elvis Presley makes his first appearance in Las Vegas, Nevada.

• 1971: The Rolling Stones release Sticky Fingers. The album is often considered one of the British rock band’s best. It includes hits like “Brown Sugar” and “Wild Horses.”.
• 1984: The discovery of the virus causing AIDS is announced. French virologists Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of the HIV virus.
• 1985: Coca-Cola releases New Coke. The new formula was so unpopular that the original Coke was re-introduced as Coca-Cola Classic soon afterward.
• 1988: Kanellos Kanellopoulos flies across the Aegean Sea in a human-powered aircraft. The Greek Olympic cyclist flew a record-breaking 115 km (71 mi) from Crete to Santorini in the MIT Daedalus aircraft, which was named after the mythological inventor of aviation.
• 2001: Intel introduces the Pentium 4 Processor.
• 2005: The first YouTube video is posted. The 18-second clip “Me at the Zoo” shows co-founder Jawed Karim at San Diego Zoo. It has been viewed more than 84.8 million times (2020).

Birthdays On this day: April 23rd

• 1564: William Shakespeare (Writer)
• 1775: J.M.W. Turner (Artist)
• 1791: James Buchanan (15th US President)
• 1858: Max Planck (Scientist)
• 1891: Sergei Prokofiev (Russian pianist, composer, and conductor)
• 1928: Shirley Temple (Actress)
• 1936: Roy Orbison (Singer)
• 1940: Lee Majors (Actor)
• 1960: Valerie Bertinelli (Actress)
• 1961: George Lopez (Actor and comedian)

Deaths On this day: April 23rd

• 1616: William Shakespeare (English playwright, actor)
• 1992: Satyajit Ray (Indian director, producer, screenwriter)
• 1993: Cesar Chavez (American activist)
• 1998: Konstantinos Karamanlis (Greek politician, 3rd President of Greece)
• 2007: Boris Yeltsin (Russian politician, 1st President of Russia)

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