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On This Day: April 23

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On April 23, 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for assassinating New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment.

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On April 23, 1858, Max Planck, the German Nobel Prize winner who developed the quantum theory, was born. Following his death on Oct. 4, 1947, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

1616	The Spanish poet Cervantes died in Madrid.
1789	President-elect George Washington and his wife moved into the first executive mansion, the Franklin House in New York City.
1791	James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States, was born in Franklin County, Pa.
1940	About 200 people died in a dance-hall fire in Natchez, Miss.
1954	Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit the first of his 755 major-league home runs in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals. (Aaron's career total is second only to Barry Bonds.)
1968	Leftist students at Columbia University in New York City began a weeklong occupation of several campus buildings.
1971	The Rolling Stones album "Sticky Fingers" was released.
1985	The Coca-Cola Co. announced it was changing its secret formula for Coke. (Negative public reaction forced the company to revert to the original version.)
1993	Labor leader Cesar Chavez died at age 66.
1998	James Earl Ray, who confessed to assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 but later insisted he was framed, died at age 70.
2004	President George W. Bush eased sanctions against Libya in return for Moammar Gadhafi's giving up weapons of mass destruction.
2005	The first video was uploaded to YouTube.com.
2010	Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed the nation's toughest illegal immigration measure into law.

Current Birthdays

Actor George Lopez turns 50 years old today.

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Actress Valerie Bertinelli ("One Day at a Time," "Hot in Cleveland") turns 51 years old today.

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1928	Shirley Temple Black, Diplomat, former child actress, turns 83
1939	David Birney, Actor, turns 72
1939	Lee Majors, Actor ("The Six Millon Dollar Man"), turns 72
1948	Blair Brown, Actress, turns 63
1949	Joyce DeWitt, Actress ("Three's Company"), turns 62
1954	Michael Moore, Director ("Fahrenheit 9/11"), turns 57
1955	Judy Davis, Actress, turns 56
1957	Jan Hooks, Actress ("Saturday Night Live"), turns 54
1967	Melina Kanakaredes, Actress ("CSI: NY"), turns 44
1977	Andruw Jones, Baseball player, turns 34
1977	Kal Penn, Actor ("House M.D."), turns 34
1983	Daniela Hantuchova, Tennis player, turns 28
1990	Dev Patel, Actor ("Slumdog Millionaire"), turns 21

Historic Birthdays

Max Planck4/23/1858 - 10/4/1947German Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1918); originated quantum theory.Go to obituary »

52	William Shakespeare 4/23/1564 - 4/23/1616 English poet and dramatist
68	St. Catherine 4/23/1522 - 2/2/1590 Italian Dominican mystic
49	Sir William Penn 4/23/1621 - 9/16/1670 English admiral and father of Pennsylvania's founder
76	J.M.W. Turner 4/23/1775 - 12/19/1851 English landscape painter
77	James Buchanan 4/23/1791 - 6/1/1868 15th president of the United States (1857-61)
79	Sir Frederick Whitaker 4/23/1812 - 12/4/1891 English politician and businessman; prime minister of New Zealand (1863-64,1882-83)
48	Stephen Douglas 4/23/1813 - 6/3/1861 American Democratic Party leader
78	Vladimir Nabokov 4/23/1899 - 7/2/1977 Russian-born American novelist and critic
88	Edwin Markham 4/23/1852 - 3/7/1940 American poet and lecturer
61	Johannes Fibiger 4/23/1867 - 1/30/1928 Danish Nobel Prize-winning pathologist (1926)
62	Michel Fokine 4/23/1880 - 8/22/1942 Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
62	Sergey Prokofiev 4/23/1891 - 3/5/1953 Russian composer
75	Lester Pearson 4/23/1897 - 12/27/1972 Canadian statesman; winner of Nobel Prize for Peace (1957) and Canadian Prime Minister (1963-68)
58	Roy Halston 4/23/1932 - 3/26/1990 American clothing designer