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Day Of The Week: April 23
April 23, 2025 is the 113th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 252 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Wednesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Taurus is your zodiac sign. Diamond is your modern birthstone. Opal is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: April 23
- 1016 –Edmund Ironside succeeds his father Æthelred the Unready as king of England,
- 1343 –Estonia: St. George’s Night Uprising.
- 1521 –Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
- 1661 –King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
- 1910 –Theodore Roosevelt made his The Man in the Arena speech.
- 1920 –The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara.
- 1932 –The 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, Netherlands burns down. It is rebuilt and reopens exactly 70 years later.
- 1951 –American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
- 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.
- 2003 –Beijing closes all schools for two weeks because of the SARS virus.
Who were born on April 23?
- 1746 –Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French physician and anatomist (d. 1794)
- 1889 –Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (d. 1942)
- 1899 –Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1979)
- 1903 –Guy Simonds, youngest general officer in the Canadian army (d. 1974)
- 1941 –Jacqueline Boyer, French singer
- 1941 –Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland 1995-2003
- 1943 –Frans Koppelaar, Dutch painter
- 1968 –Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (d. 2001)
- 1975 –Bobby Shaw, American football player
- 1985 –Angel Locsin, Filipina actress
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