TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – APRIL 23
1014 King Brian Boru of Ireland defeats Viking forces at Battle of Clontarf, freeing Ireland from foreign control
1348 The first English order of knighthood is founded.
1635 The Boston Public Latin School was established. It was the first public school building in the United States.
1661 Charles II is formally crowned king, returning the monarchy to Britain, albeit with greatly reduced powers.
1662 Connecticut chartered as an English colony
1856 Free Stater J.N. Mace in Westport, Kansas shoots pro-slavery sheriff Samuel Jones in the back.
1900 The word “hillbilly” was first used in print in an article in the “New York Journal.” It was spelled “Hill-Billie”.
1908 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt signed an act creating the U.S. Army Reserve.
1915 The ACA becomes the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA), the forerunner of NASA.
1924 The U.S. Senate passes the Soldiers’ Bonus Bill.
1945 Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated
1950 Chiang Kai-shek evacuates Hainan, leaving mainland China to Mao Zedong and the communists.
1968 The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church merged to form the United Methodist Church.
1984 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that Dr. Robert Gallo and his colleagues had found the cause of AIDS. It was a retrovirus labled HTLV-III.
1985 Coca-Cola releases New Coke
1988 Kanellos Kanellopoulos flies across the Aegean Sea in a human-powered aircraft
1992 McDonald’s opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China
1994 Libertarian party nominates Howard Stern for Governor of New York
2004 U.S. President George W. Bush eased sanctions against Libya in return for Moammar Gadhafi’s agreement to give up weapons of mass destruction.
2005 The first YouTube video is posted
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