Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 23
This is a list of selected April 23 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| World Book Day; | refimprove |
| ; Children's Day in Turkey | refimprove section |
| 1827 – Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton presented his Theory of Systems of Rays. | refimprove section, unreferenced section |
| 1920 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey, the Turkish unicameral parliament, was founded in Ankara in the midst of the Turkish War of Independence. | empty sections |
| 1923 – Gdynia was inaugurated as a Polish seaport on the coast of Gdańsk Bay, a southwestern bay of the Baltic Sea. | refimprove |
| 1935 – Poland adopted a new constitution, introducing a presidential system with certain elements of authoritarianism. | Stubby |
| 1968 – Students protesting the Vietnam War at Columbia University in New York City took over administration buildings and shut down the university. | neutrality issues |
| 1982 – The City of Key West in Florida facetiously declared independence from the United States to protest a United States Border Patrol roadblock and inspection point along U.S. Route 1, the main road into the city. | refimprove, improper tone |
| 1985 – The Coca-Cola Company replaced its flagship soft drink, Coca-Cola, with "New Coke", which generated so much negative response that the company put the previous formula back on the market less than three months later. | inappropriate tone |
Eligible
- 1014 – Irish forces led by Brian Boru clashed with the Vikings in the Battle of Clontarf.
- 1348 – The first-ever appointments to the Order of the Garter, an order of chivalry founded by King Edward III of England, were announced.
- 1661 – Charles II, King of England, Ireland, and Scotland was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
- 1942 – Second World War: In retaliation for the Royal Air Force bombing of Lübeck several weeks prior, the Luftwaffe began a series of bombing raids in England, starting with Exeter.
- 1954 – Batting against Vic Raschi of the St. Louis Cardinals, Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit the first of his record-setting 755 home runs in Major League Baseball.
- 1961 – In the midst of the Algerian War, French President Charles de Gaulle delivered a televised speech calling on military personnel and civilians to oppose a coup d'état attempt against him.
- 1979 – Activist Blair Peach suffered fatal head injuries when he was knocked unconscious during an Anti-Nazi League demonstration in Southall, London, against a National Front election meeting in the town hall.
- 2009 – Gamma-ray burst GRB 090423 was detected, coming from the most distant known astronomical object of any kind at the time.
April 23: Saint George's Day in various countries
- 1016 – Edmund Ironside (pictured) became King of England, reigning for only seven months before the country was conquered by Cnut the Great.
- 1516 – The most well-known version of the Reinheitsgebot, the German Beer Purity Law was adopted across the entirety of Bavaria.
- 1918 – First World War: The British Royal Navy conducted a raid on the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
- 1951 – American journalist William N. Oatis was arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
- 2010 – Governor of Arizona Jan Brewer signed the controversial anti-illegal immigration bill SB 1070 into law.