Nicosia, Cyprus. The following are some of the major events to have occurred on April 23, spanning cultural commemorations, wartime developments, political milestones, and notable deaths.
1928
The life and death of playwright William Shakespeare were celebrated.
1941
King George of the Hellenes and the Greek government fled the Greek mainland as German forces advanced in World War Two, and the Greek army surrendered.
1998
James Earl Ray, convicted of the 1968 assassination of U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, died aged 70.
1999
Indonesia and Portugal completed an agreement paving the way for the people of East Timor to vote on their future.
2002
Argentina’s fifth economy minister in just over a year quit, dealing a severe blow to President Eduardo Duhalde as he struggled to avert a banking collapse.
2002
The world’s first topical treatment for erectile dysfunction was unveiled at a news conference in Hong Kong.
2005
British actor Sir John Mills, who won an Oscar in 1971 for his portrayal of a mute village idiot in the film “Ryan’s Daughter,” died aged 97.
2007
Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin died aged 76; Yeltsin was Russia’s first democratically elected head of state and helped build the rudiments of a market economy in the country.
2008
German patient Monique Pachalek was the first to have the cardiac re-synchronisation therapy defibrillator device ‘Consulta CRT-D’ implanted.
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