April 23 Pleased Easter! (for Christians utilizing the Julian calendar)
1516 – Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria endorses “The German Beer Purity Legislation” (3 elements solely: water, malt & hops)
1564 – English playwright William Shakespeare (trad)
1791 – James Buchanan, fifteenth president of the US
1858 – German physicist Max Planck ‘Father of Quantum Physics’
1891 – Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev
1936 – American rock musician Roy Orbison
1940 – American actor Lee Majors (The Six Million Greenback Man, The Fall Man)
1989 – Wine service provider William Sokolin breaks a bottle of 1787 Château Margaux, presumably belonging to Thomas Jefferson, value $500,000 on the 4 Seasons in New York
2009 – Gamma ray burst (GRB) 090423 is noticed for 10 seconds, probably the most distant object of any sort and likewise the oldest identified object within the universe

April 24
1184 b.C. – Greeks enter Troy utilizing the Trojan Horse (trad)
1905 – U.S. poet laureate/creator Robert Penn Warren
1916 – Easter Rising in opposition to British occupation begins in Dublin
1934 – American actress Shirley MacLaine
1942 – American singer/actress/director Barbra Streisand
1974 – American actress Alyson Hannigan

April 25
1599 – Oliver Cromwell, lord protector of England
1874 – Guglielmo Marconi (Inventor of the radio telegraph )
1918 – American jazz/blues singer Ella Fitzgerald
1940 – American actor Al Pacino
1950 – Chuck Cooper, first African-American, is drafted into the NBA
1960 – US Submarine Triton completes 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth in 60 days, 21 hours
1964 – American actor/comic Hank Azaria
1969 – American actress Renee Zellweger
1990 – Hubble area telescope is positioned into orbit by shuttle Discovery

April 26
121 – Roman Emperor & Stoic thinker Marcus Aurelius
1785 – American naturalist John James Audubon
1900 – American inventor Charles Richter, answerable for the Richter Scale of earthquake measurement
1933 – American entertainer Carol Burnett
1986 – Chernobyl nuclear plant catastrophe
???? – kronik

April 27
1759 – English creator and groundbreaking feminist thinker Mary Wollstonecraft
1791 – American inventor Samuel F.B. Morse
1822 – Union Common & 18th President Ulysses S. Grant
1904 – English poet C. Day Lewis
1932 – American radio character Casey Kasem
1967 – King Willem-Alexander of Netherlands

April 28[ – Happy(?) Evil Bob Day!
??BC – Evil Bob aka stargate
1758 – 5th US President James Monroe
1770 – English Captain James Cook enters Botany Bay Australia aboard the Endeavour
1789 – Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against its captain William Bligh in the South Pacific
1878 – American actor Lionel Barrymore
1926 – American author Harper Lee (To Kill A Mockingbird)
1937 – 1st commercial flight across Pacific operated by Pan Am
1947 – Thor Heyerdahl & “Kon-Tiki” sail from Peru to Polynesia
1948 – English author Terry Pratchett
1950 – American comedian/Tonight Show Host Jay Leno
2018 – Management of “This week in Geek History” passes from sdonahue to wysire

April 29
1899 – American band leader and composer Duke Ellington
1913 – The modern all purpose zipper is designed
1933 – Country singer Willie Nelson
1954 – American comedian Jerry Seinfeld
1955 – American actress Kate Mulgrew
1957 – English actor Daniel Day-Lewis
1958 – American actress Michelle Pfeiffer
1970 – American actress Uma Thurman
1975 – Fall of Saigon, US evacuates Vietnam

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