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News & Politics - On This Day (April 23) 
MSFixR says: 1564 - William Shakespeare , (guessed to be born on this day) English poet and playwright (d. 1616) (Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.)
William Shakespeare (Chandos portrait) 1661 – Charles II was crowned King of England, Ireland, and Scotland at Westminster Abbey. 1827 – Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton presented his Theory of Systems of Rays. 1857 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo , Italian composer born. (d. 1919) (Leoncavallo was an Italian opera composer. His opera, Pagliacci, was and remains one of the most popular works in the operatic repertory, currently appearing as number 14 on Opera America's list of the 20 most-performed operas in North America.) 6R0iaRcUqDI
“Vesti la giubba” from Pagliacci, Placido Domingo 1858 - Max Planck , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate born. (d. 1947) (Planck was a German physicist. He is considered to be the founder of quantum theory, and one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century.) 1920 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey, the Turkish unicameral parliament, was founded in Ankara in the midst of the Turkish War of Independence. 1923 – Gdynia was inaugurated as a Polish seaport on the coast of Gdańsk Bay, a southwestern bay of the Baltic Sea. 1961 – Dressed in his 1940s-vintage general's uniform, President Charles de Gaulle delivered a televised speech calling on the military personnel and civilians of France to oppose the Algiers putsch, a coup d'état attempt against him. 1968 – Students protesting the Vietnam War at Columbia University in New York City took over administration buildings and shut down the university. 1985 - Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. (The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months.) 1986 - Otto Preminger , Austrian-born film director died. (b. 1906) (Preminger was a director who moved from the theatre to Hollywood, directing over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He rose to prominence for stylish film noir mysteries such as Laura (1944). In the 1950s and 1960s, he directed a number of high-profile adaptations of popular novels and stage works.)
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