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On this day, April 23, in history: In 34, Jesus Christ was crucified, according to mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton, one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time. In 303, St. George was beheaded on the orders of the Roman Emperor Diocletian. This martyred soldier is not only the patron saint of England
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On this day, April 23, in history:
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In 34, Jesus Christ was crucified, according to mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton, one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time.
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In 303, St. George was beheaded on the orders of the Roman Emperor Diocletian. This martyred soldier is not only the patron saint of England and Portugal, but also of soldiers and the Boy Scouts of America.
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In 1348, King Edward III established the Order of the Garter, which is still Britain’s highest honour.
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In 1564, English dramatist William Shakespeare was born. He died on the same day 52 years later.
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In 1616, Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes, who wrote “Don Quixote,” died in Madrid.
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In 1616, English poet and dramatist William Shakespeare, 52, died on what has been traditionally regarded as the anniversary of his birth in 1564.
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In 1851, the first Canadian postage stamp, the three-penny beaver, was issued.
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In 1879, the city of Guelph, Ont., was incorporated.
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In 1896, the Vitascope system for projecting movies onto a screen was demonstrated at a music hall in New York City.
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In 1897, Lester Pearson was born in Newtonbrook, Ont. The Nobel Peace Prize winner served as Canada’s 14th prime minister from 1963-68. He died on Dec. 27, 1972.
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In 1915, Lance-Cpl. Fred Fisher of St. Catharines, Ont., won a posthumous Victoria Cross during the Second Battle of Ypres during the First World War. Three other Canadians also won V.C.’s for valour during the battle around the Belgian city.
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In 1940, about 200 people died in the Rhythm Night Club fire in Natchez, Miss.
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In 1954, Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit the first of his 755 home runs, in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals. (Barry Bonds broke Aaron’s major league record in August 2007, and finished his career with 762.)
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In 1968, the first public hearings of the newly-formed CRTC were held in Ottawa.
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In 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death in Los Angeles for the June 1968 assassination of U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy. The sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment when the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily outlawed the death penalty.
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In 1969, John Sinclair completed the greatest recorded feat of continuous marathon walking. He walked over 354 kilometres in nearly 48 hours near Simonstown, South Africa.
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In 1978, British scientists Bob Edwards and Patrick Steptoe announced they had successfully carried out the first documented “test tube” pregnancy. Lesley Brown had become pregnant in November 1977 through in vitro fertilization. The process involves fertilizing an egg outside the mother’s body, then implanting the embryo in her womb. Louise Brown was born on July 25, 1978.