
04-22-2004, 06:21 PM
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April 23rd
1348 ~ King Edward the Third of England established the Order of the Garter.
1564 ~ Traditional birthday of William Shakespeare, Playwright.
1772 ~ Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle wrote the French National Anthem, "La Marseillaise".
1858 ~ Birthday of Max Planck, Physicist. (1918 Nobel Prize)
1891 ~ Birthday of Sergei Prokofiev, Composer.
1933 ~ The Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei) established.
1936 ~ Birthday of Roy Orbison, Musician.
1948 ~ Birthday of Bernadette Devlin, MP.
1954 ~ Hank Aaron hit his first major league home run.
2003 ~ Beijing closed all schools for two weeks due to the SARS virus.
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