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Monday, April 23, 2018
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| 1509 | Henry VIII ascends the throne of England |
| 1526 | First known revolt occurs in what is now South Carolina |
| 1529 | Spain & Portugal divide eastern hemisphere in Treaty of Zaragoza |
| 1676 | Naval Battle off Etna, Dutch-Spanish vs French |
| 1769 | Madame du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress |
| 1778 | John Paul.Jones leads a landing party to raid Whitehaven, England |
| 1796 | Battle of Mondovi: Napoleon defeats the Piedmontese |
| 1861 | Robert E Lee named commander of Virginia forces |
| 1898 | USS Nashville captures Spanish ship Buena Ventura |
| 1898 | President McKinley orders blockade of Cuba |
| 1913 | Balkan Wars: Montenegrans capture Scutari, Albania |
| 1914 | Mexico severs diplomatic relations with US |
| 1915 | Second Battle of Ypres: Germany initiates use of poison gas |
| 1930 | London Conference: Great powers agree to further reduce naval forces |
| 1944 | U.S. Army troops land near Hollandia in New Guinea. |
| 1945 | Concentration Camp at Sachsenhausen liberated |
| 1952 | An atomic explosion is broadcast live on television for the first time |
| 1954 | Senate Army-McCarthy hearings are televised for the first time |
| 1967 | Military junta imposes martial law in Greece |
| 1972 | Apollo astronauts John Young & Charles Duke take a ride on the Moon |
| 1983 | Soyuz T-8 returns to Earth |
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| 0 | Feast of St. George, Patron of England and of Soldiers |
| 1014 | Battle of Clontarf: King Brian Boru of Ireland defeats the Danes |
| 1348 | First and greatest order of knighthood founded, Order of the Garter |
| 1795 | William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason |
| 1826 | Missolonghi, Greece, captured by Turks |
| 1861 | Texas forces capture U.S. Army base at San Antonio |
| 1861 | Arkansas troops seize Ft Smith |
| 1864 | Red River Expedition: Battle of Cane River/Monett's Ferry |
| 1918 | Dover Patrol sinks Germany U-boat in North Sea |
| 1918 | British raid Zeebrugge, Belgium |
| 1938 | Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self-government |
| 1941 | King George II of Greece flees to Egypt |
| 1943 | Sub Seawolf sinks a Japanese patrol vessel in the Yellow Sea. |
| 1943 | New Guinea: Aussie Kanga Force relieved by 3rd Div on the Mubo front. |
| 1945 | Balikpapan, Borneo: First US guided missile use: 2 BATs |
| 1945 | Allies in Italy reach Po River |
| 1949 | Red Chinese occupy Nanking |
| 1950 | Nationalist Chinese evacuate Hainan Island |
| 1967 | Soyuz 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes 1st in-flight casualty |
| 1980 | Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die |
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| 1288 | Jews of Troyes France are accused of ritual murder |
| 1547 | Battle of Muhlberg |
| 1778 | US Sloop-of-War Ranger captures HMS Drake |
| 1792 | Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle composes "La Marseillaise" |
| 1849 | French Expeditionary Force lands at Civitavecchia, advances on Rome |
| 1862 | Farragut runs the Confederate batteries on the Mississippi |
| 1863 | War Department GO No 100, The Law of Land Warfare, the first US ROE. |
| 1877 | Last US troops leave New Orleans: Reconstruction ends, Jim Crow begins |
| 1895 | Joshua Slocum completes the first solo around-the-world voyage in Spray |
| 1898 | Spain declares war on US |
| 1915 | Turks initiate widespread massacre of Armenians |
| 1916 | Easter Rebellion: Irish uprising British occupation |
| 1917 | US DD sail for Europe; 17 days after is declared on Germany (see May 4) |
| 1920 | Polish troops enter Ukraine |
| 1932 | Nazis gain 36.3% of votes in Prussian election |
| 1942 | Japanese troops advance on all fronts in Burma. |
| 1943 | U.S. 7th Infantry Div sails from San Francisco for Alaska |
| 1944 | Australian troops occupy Madang in New Guinea. |
| 1944 | 1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump" |
| 1953 | Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II |
| 1961 | Swedish warship Vasa, sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised |
| 1961 | JFK accepts "sole responsibility" for the Bay of Pigs |
| 1968 | Lenny Glynn sits in the Presidernt's chair at Columbia University |
| 1969 | US B-52 drops 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary |
| 1970 | China PR launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red" |
| 1980 | "Desert One": US operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die |
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