Quick glance of 23 April in the pages of History

April 23: Here are the major events that occurred on 23 April….

• 23 April, 1016: Upon the death of King Ethelred II of England, his son claimed the throne as Edmund II.
• 23 April, 1504: Guru Angad, Sikh Guru, was born.
• 23 April, 1751: Gilbert Aliat Minto, governor general of East India Company, was born
• 23 April, 1774: British Commander Colonel Chapman defeated Rohilla’s army and captured Ruhelkhand.
• 23 April, 1858: Pandita Ramabai, Indian social reformer, was born. 

• 23 April, 1858: East India Company gave Warren Hastings a grant of the money and he was honourably acquitted of the charges.
• 23 April, 1906: Russian Tsar Nicholas II promulgated the Fundamental Laws, which marked the end of unlimited autocracy but fell short of the reforms promised in the October Manifesto.
• 23 April, 1913: Dhananjay Vithal Keer, famous biogropher, was born.
• 23 April, 1926: Madhavrao Sapre, great political leader, passed away.
• 23 April, 1927: Annapurna Devi, Hindustani classical musician, was born 

• 23 April, 1938: Viceroy Lord Linlithgow opens the hydro-electric scheme at Malakand.
• 23 April, 1955: Political Committee of Asian-African Conference at Bandung adopted an Indian resolution calling for a ban on atomic weapons.
• 23 April, 1959: Peking Radio reports say that Chinese troops defeated rebels in south-eastern Tibet and have closed Tibet’s borders with India and Burma.
• 23 April, 1969: Manoj Bajpai, Indian film actor, was born

• 23 April, 1984: U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret Heckler announced that researchers had found what was believed to be the virus that causes AIDS; the infectious agent was later named HIV.
• 23 April, 1985: The Coca-Cola Company introduced New Coke, a reformulated soft drink meant to replace its flagship beverage; due to public outrage, however, the previous version of Coke was brought back as “Coca-Cola Classic” less than three months later

• 23 April, 1992: Satyajit Ray, internationally famous Indian film producer-director, Bharat Ratna Awardee, passed away at the age of 70.
• 23 April, 1993: On this day in 1993, after a long history of foreign rule and decades of war, the small East African country of Eritrea began three days of voting on a referendum to make official its independence from Ethiopia.
• 23 April, 2005: The first video—which was of YouTube cofounder Jawed Karim’s visit to the San Diego Zoo—was uploaded on the YouTube Web site; approximately one year later the site had some 100 million videos.