CoM Moderators Posted April 23 Posted April 23 1795 - William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason 1962 - Ranger 4, 1st US satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral 1964 - Houston Colt 45s Ken Johnson becomes 1st major league pitcher to lose a 9 inning no-hitter, Reds win 1-0 1965 - American composer Randall Thompson marks his retirement from the Harvard faculty conducting the debut of his orchestrated arrangement of "Frostiana: Seven Country Songs" with the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society singing poetry of Robert Frost 1965 - Launch of 1st Soviet communications satellite 1969 - The Unionist Parliamentary Party votes by 28 to 22 to introduce universal adult suffrage in local government elections in Northern Ireland; the demand for 'one man, one vote' had been one of the most powerful slogans of the civil rights movement 1985 - Brooklyn College soccer team wins Nepal's invitational 1991 - USSR grants republics right to secede under certain conditions 2012 - Rangers F.C. owner, Craig Whyte, is banned for life from any involvement in Scottish football 2024 - Details of ancient Greek philosopher Plato's last night and burial place revealed by deciphering a carbonized scroll from Herculaneum, using new technologies including AI More Historical Events »
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