DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Saturday, April 23, the 113th day of 2022. There are 252 days left in the year. On this date in:
1616 (Old Style calendar): English poet and dramatist William Shakespeare died in Stratford-upon-avon on what has traditionally been regarded as the 52nd anniversary of his birth in 1564.
1898: Spain declared war on the United States, which responded in kind two days later.
1940: About 200 people died in the Rhythm Night Club Fire in Natchez, Mississippi.
1954: Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit the first of his 755 majorleague home runs in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals. (The Braves won, 7-5.)
1969: Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for assassinating New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. (The sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment.)
1971: Hundreds of Vietnam War veterans opposed to the conflict protested by tossing their medals and ribbons over a wire fence in front of the U.S. Capitol.
1988: A federal ban on smoking during domestic airline flights of two hours or less went into effect.
1992: Mcdonald’s opened its first fast-food restaurant in the Chinese capital of Beijing.
1993: Labor leader Cesar Chavez died in San Luis, Arizona, at age 66.
1998: James Earl Ray, who confessed to assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and then insisted he’d been framed, died at a Nashville, Tennessee, hospital at age 70.
2005: The recently created videosharing website Youtube uploaded its first clip, “Me at the Zoo,” which showed
Youtube co-founder Jawed Karim standing in front of an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo.
2007: Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first freely elected president, died in Moscow at age 76.
2020: At a White House briefing, President Donald Trump noted that researchers were looking at the effects of disinfectants on the coronavirus, and wondered aloud whether they could be injected into people.
Actor David Birney is 83. Actor Lee Majors (“Six Million Dollar Man”) is 83. Actor Blair Brown is 75. Actor Joyce Dewitt (“Three’s Company”) is 73. Actor James Russo is 69. Director Michael Moore is 68. Actor Judy Davis is 67. Actor Valerie Bertinelli is 62. Actor Craig Sheffer (“One Tree Hill,” “Into the West”) is 62. Actor Melina Kanakaredes (“The Resident,” “Providence”) is 55. Drummer Stan Frazier of Sugar Ray is 54. Actor Scott Bairstow (“Party of Five”) is 52. Actor John Lutz (“30 Rock”) is 49. Musicians Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National are 46. Wrestler-turnedactor John Cena (“The Marine”) is 45. Actor-comedian John Oliver is 45. Actor Kal Penn (“House M.D.,” “Harold and Kumar”) is 45. Singer
Taio Cruz is 39. Actor
Jesse Lee Soffer (“Chicago P.D.,” “Chicago Fire”) is 38. Actor Dev Patel (“Slumdog Millionaire”) is 32. Actor
Matthew Underwood (“Zoey 101”) is 32. Model Gigi Hadid is 27. Musicians Jake and Josh Kiszka of Greta Van Fleet are 26. Actor Charlie Rowe (“Salvation”) is 26.