April 23: Who’s Celebrating – Some events like today

April 23: events like today

Pictures: The Battle of Alamana, the opening of the Corinth Canal, George Karaiskakis, Konstantinos Karamanlis, George Papandreou’s speech in Kastellorizo

Tuesday, April 23, 2024: Martyrs Anatolius and Protoleion of the army, Martyrs Donatus and Therinos

There is no known holiday.

World days
• World Book Day
• English Language Day
• International Day of Youth Voluntary Service

Events on April 23
• 1821 The Battle of Alamanna. The Greek revolutionary forces under Diovouniotis, Panourgias and Diakos face the superior Ottoman hordes of Omer Bryonis and Kiose Mehmet at the bridge of Alamana (Thermopylon area) and are defeated.

• 1827 George Karaiskakis, hero of the Greek Revolution, dies. Seconds before he succumbed to the fatal blow he received the day before in Faliro, he expressed his belief that he had been shot by a “friendly” hand.
• 1882 The work of opening the Isthmus of Corinth begins.

• 1920 The National Turkish Council under Mustafa Kemal overthrew the government of Sultan Mehmet VI and promulgated a provisional constitution.
• 1935 The trial of those involved in the March 1st Venezuelan movement begins. Eleftherios Venizelos and Nikolaos Plastiras are sentenced to death in absentia. The anti-Venizelians take their blood back, avenging those responsible for the Trial of the 6.
• 1941 World War II: Ongoing German and Bulgarian invasion King George II and the government of Emmanuel Tsouderos leave Athens before the Wehrmacht invades.
• 1944 Elections throughout occupied and free Greece for the nomination of the electors of the National Council of the Mountain Government, where women vote for the first time in parliamentary elections.
• 1960 The nitrogen plant is founded in Ptolemaida, which will produce 74,000 tons per year.

• 1967 Soyuz 1 launches into orbit carrying cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, who is killed on re-entry to Earth.
• 1985 The Coca Cola company announces that it will change its classic recipe for the preparation of the popular soft drink, which ultimately will not happen after strong reactions from consumers.
• 1993 The people of Eritrea vote in a referendum for their independence from Ethiopia.
• 1999 The Serbian TV building in Belgrade is bombed by NATO planes during the war in Kosovo. 16 dead and many injured. In Greece, the following day’s newspapers are printed with a black ribbon as a sign of mourning, while NATO, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary at a solemn meeting in Brussels, signing a Declaration on its new role, describes the building in Belgrade as a “legitimate target”.

• 2003 After 30 years, the free passage of Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots into occupied Cyprus and the free areas begins.
• 2005 The first YouTube video titled “Me at the zoo” is uploaded.

• 2010 Greece becomes the first country of the E.U. which appeals to the International Monetary Fund. Without preceding a referendum as required by the Constitution of the Country, the Greek government submitted an application for bilateral loans from the rest of the Eurozone Member States that have a common currency, the euro. Continuation of this was the conclusion of the loan facility agreement in the amount of 80,000,000,000 euros on May 8, 2010.

• 2018 Doctors at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have performed the first successful transplant of a penis and scrotum from a deceased donor to a US soldier wounded in Afghanistan. Testicles are not transplanted.

April 23rd birthdays
• 1889 Vassilis Rotas, Greek writer, critic and translator

• 1891 Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer
• 1916 Yannis Moralis, Greek painter

Deaths on April 23
• 303 Saint George
• 1616 William Shakespeare, English playwright and actor

• 1827 George Karaiskakis, Greek general
• 1998 Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician
• 2007 Boris Yeltsin, Russian politician

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