April 23 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for April 23
In the headlines today:

1998	James Earl Ray, confessed assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., dies in a Nashville hospital at age 70.
1995	ABC-TV sportscaster Howard Cosell dies in New York at age 77.
1990	Namibia joins the United Nations.
1985	After 99 years of success, Coca-Cola executives announce they are changing the formula, calling it New Coke. (It failed to win the hearts of consumers, so the old formula was brought back.)
1969	Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death for the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York.
1964	Ken Johnson, of the Houston Astros, pitches a no-hitter, only to lose the game to Cincinnati 1-0 due to errors.
1941	Greece surrenders to Italy and Germany during WWII.
1910	The International Exposition opens in Brussells, Belgium.
1861	The Maryland state song, Maryland, My Maryland, is composed.
1772	Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle composes La Marseillaise, the French national anthem.
1661	Charles II, The Merry Monarch, is crowned King of England.
1616	Spanish writer Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, dies.