Today is Saturday, April 23, the 113th day of 2011. There are 252 days left in the year.
1348 ― First English order of knighthood founded (Order of the Garter)
1867 ― Queen Victoria and Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel
1900 ― First known occurrence of word ``hillbillie" (New York Journal)
1932 ― Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon
1950 ― Nationalist China evacuates Hainan Island
1956 ― U.S. Supreme Court ends race segregation on buses
1965 ― Launch of first Soviet communications satellite
1969 ― Over 1,000 square miles flooded in Shandong Province, China
1969 ― Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy
1995 ― President Bill Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City bombing victims