April 23: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 215 BC - A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
2. 1635 - The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
3. 1661 - King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
4. 1910 - American President Theodore Roosevelt makes his "The Man in the Arena" speech.
5. 1945 - World War II Adolf Hitler's designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz.
6. 1967 - Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союэ 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.
7. 1968 - Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
8. 1985 - Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months.
9. 1990 - Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
10. 1993 - Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
11. Famous Birthdays: James Buchanan (American politician, 15th President of the United States), Max Planck (German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate), Johannes Fibiger (Danish physician, Nobel Prize laureate), Bertil Ohlin (Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate), Myron Waldman (American animator)

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