WHAT HAPPENED TODAY IN HISTORY APRIL 23

PHOTO CREDITS- WIKIPEDIA/INTERNET ARCHIVE

1971 The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 10, becoming the first mission to the Salyut 1 space station.

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1969 Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death for killing Senator Robert Kennedy.

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1966 President Lyndon Johnson publicly appeals for more nations to come to the aid of South Vietnam.

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1954 The Army-McCarthy hearings begin.

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1950 Chiang Kai-shek evacuates Hainan, leaving mainland China to Mao Zedong and the communists.

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1945 The Soviet Army fights its way into Berlin.

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1932 Jim Fixx, runner and writer who popularized running as a form of exercise in the 1970s.

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1928 Shirley Temple Black, child actress, later U.S. ambassador.

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1926 Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Mercury and Gemini astronaut, died in an accident on Apollo 1.

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1926 J.P. Donleavy, American-born Irish writer (The Ginger Man).

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1924 The U.S. Senate passes the Soldiers’ Bonus Bill.

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1920 The Turkish Grand National Assembly has first meeting in Ankara.

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1915 The ACA becomes the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA), the forerunner of NASA.

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1914 The Federals defeat Kansas City 9-1 in the first major league game to be played in Chicago’s Weeghman Park, later renamed Wrigley Field.

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1902 Halldór Laxness, Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic novelist (The Fish Can Sing, Paradise Reclaimed).

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