What Happened This Day In History... April 23

1348		The first English order of knighthood is founded.
1500		Pedro Cabal claims Brazil for Portugal.
1521		The Comuneros are crushed by royalist troops in Spain.
1661		Charles II is formally crowned king, returning the monarchy to Britain, albeit with greatly reduced powers.
1759		British forces seize Basse-Terre and Guadeloupe from France.
1789		President George Washington moves into Franklin House, New York.
1826		Missolonghi falls to Egyptian forces.
1856		Free Stater J.N. Mace in Westport, Kansas shoots pro-slavery sheriff Samuel Jones in the back.
1865		Union cavalry units continue to skirmish with Confederate forces in Henderson, North Carolina and Munsford Station, Alalbama.
1895		Russia, France, and Germany force Japan to return the Liaodong peninsula to China.
1896		Motion pictures premiere in New York City.
1915		The ACA becomes the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA), the forerunner of NASA.
1920		The Turkish Grand National Assembly has first meeting in Ankara.
1924		The U.S. Senate passes the Soldiers' Bonus Bill.
1945		The Soviet Army fights its way into Berlin.
1950		Chiang Kai-shek evacuates Hainan, leaving mainland China to Mao Zedong and the communists.
1954		The Army-McCarthy hearings begin.
1966		President Lyndon Johnson publicly appeals for more nations to come to the aid of South Vietnam.
1969		Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death for killing Senator Robert Kennedy.
1971		The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 10, becoming the first in Salyut 1 space station.
Born on April 23
1547		Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (Don Quixote).
1564		William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet.
1791		James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (1857-1861).
1813		Stephen A. Douglas, American politician.
1897		Lucius D. Clay, U.S. military governor of occupied Berlin.
1902		Halldór Laxness, Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic novelist (The Fish Can Sing, Paradise Reclaimed).
1926		J.P. Donlevey, American-born Irish writer (The Ginger Man).
1926		Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Mercury and Gemini astronaut, died in an accident on Apollo 1.
1928		Shirley Temple Black, child actress, later U.S. ambassador.
1932		Jim Fixx, runner and writer who popularized running as a form of exercise in the 1970s