Today is Tuesday, April 23, the 113th day of 2013. 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
1949 ― Chinese Red army conquerors Nanjing
1956 ― U.S. Supreme court ends race segregation on buses
1969 ― Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy
1977 ― Czechoslovakian chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously and only loses 10
1984 ― AIDS-virus identified (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
1985 ― Coca-Cola announced it is changing its secret flavor formula
1989 ― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plays his last game as a Los Angeles Laker
1993 ― Peter Townshend's musical “Tommy," premieres in NYC