World Book Day today, Tuesday 23 April

Today, Tuesday, April 23, according to the Orthodox Church, it is the feast of the Martyrs Anatolius and Protoleon of the army and the Martyrs Donatus and Therinus.

There is no known holiday.

Today is World Book Day.

THE April 23rd is 113th day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar and fall short 252 days for the end of it.

Events of April 23rd

1014 Battle of Clontarf: Irish king Brian Boru defeats the Vikings but is killed in battle.
1016 Edmund the Iron-sided succeeds his father, Æthelred of Wessex, to the throne of England.
1920 The Turkish National Council under Mustafa Kemal overthrew the government of Sultan Mehmet VI and promulgated a provisional constitution.
1941 World War II: With the ongoing German and Bulgarian invasion, King George II and the government of Emmanuel Tsouderos boarded an English seaplane at Eleusis Bay at 02:00 and were transported to Crete, continuing the Struggle there.
1944 Elections throughout occupied and free Greece for the election 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.
1963 New crisis in Greek-Turkish relations, for which NATO circles also express their concern, as the Turkish National Assembly has been debating since February 10 a bill to extend Turkey’s territorial waters to six miles and the fishing zone to twelve, thus dramatically limiting the scope action of the Greek fishermen.
1967 Soyuz 1 launches into orbit carrying cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, who is killed on re-entry.
1973 Athens
1990 Namibia becomes the 160th member of the UN. and 50th member of the British Commonwealth.
1993 The people of Eritrea vote in a referendum for independence from Ethiopia.
1999 NATO aircraft bomb the Serbian Radio and Television (RTS) building, killing 16 workers there.
2010 Greece becomes the first EU country. 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.