Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 23

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 * 1348 – The first knights of the Order of the Garter, an order of chivalry founded by King Edward III of England, were appointed.
 * 1467 – Albanian commander Skanderbeg entered Krujë, breaking a 10-month siege by Ottoman forces.
 * 1661 – Charles II was crowned King of England, Scotland and Ireland at Westminster Abbey.
 * 1724 – Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104, illustrating the topic of the Good Shepherd in pastoral music.
 * 1891 – Chilean Civil War: The armored frigate Blanco Encalada was sunk at the Battle of Caldera Bay, the first ironclad warship lost to a self-propelled torpedo.
 * 1918 – First World War: The British Royal Navy launched unsuccessful raids on Ostend and Zeebrugge in German-occupied Belgium.
 * 1920 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey, the country's unicameral legislature, first met in Ankara in the midst of the Turkish War of Independence.
 * 1927 – Cardiff City defeated Arsenal 1–0 in the FA Cup final (match programme pictured) in the only time the FA Cup has been won by a non-English team.
 * 1942 – Second World War: In retaliation for the Royal Air Force's bombing of Lübeck, the Luftwaffe began a series of air raids across England, beginning with Exeter.
 * 1951 – American journalist William N. Oatis was arrested for espionage by the communist government of Czechoslovakia.
 * 1954 – Batting for the Milwaukee Braves against Vic Raschi of the St. Louis Cardinals, Hank Aaron hit the first of his 755 home runs in Major League Baseball.
 * 1971 – The Rolling Stones released Sticky Fingers, the first album on their own label, Rolling Stones Records.
 * 2009 – The gamma-ray burst GRB 090423 was detected coming from the most distant astronomical object of any kind known at the time.
 * 2010 – Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed into law the controversial anti–illegal immigration bill SB 1070, much of which was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
 * 2019 – A landslide triggered the collapse of a jade mine in Hpakant, Myanmar, resulting in six confirmed deaths and presumed dozens more.
 * Born/died this day: | Wihtred of Kent |d|725| Béla III of Hungary |d|1196| Joan of Acre |d|1307| Karl Friedrich Bahrdt |d|1792| Jim Bottomley |b|1900| Halston |b|1932| Roy Orbison |b|1936| Kathy Lynch |b|1957| Leni Robredo|b|1965