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Events on April 23

• 1516 Duke William IV and Louis X of Bavaria issue a new Bavarian territorial ordinance in Ingolstadt. Because it regulates, among other things, the price and ingredients of beer, a passage of this ordinance is later referred to as the “Bavarian Purity Law.”
• 1563 In the Spanish town of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, the foundation stone is laid for the construction of the monastery residence El Escorial. After 21 years, work on the world's largest Renaissance building is completed.
• 1661 In Westminster Abbey, Charles II is crowned King of England. Because the crown jewels had been lost for the second time during the preceding period of the Commonwealth of England, a new set of coronation regalia was made for the coronation.
• 1942 After Lübeck was destroyed by an air raid by the Royal Air Force in March, the German Luftwaffe launches the so-called Baedeker Blitz with the bombing of Exeter, targeting English cities that are marked with three stars in Karl Baedeker's travel guide.
• 1945 The Flossenbürg concentration camp is liberated by the US Army. Only 1,600 prisoners remain in the camp. At this point, most of the inmates are on one of the death marches.
• 1946 Following the joint party congress of the KPD and SPD to form the SED, the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland is published for the first time, succeeding the KPD's Deutsche Volkszeitung and the SPD newspaper Das Volk.
• 1960 Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and French Prime Minister Michel Debré open the only German-French Garden Show to date in Saarbrücken. The site subsequently develops into the German-French Garden and becomes a popular local recreation area.
• 1965 In Paris, the Peugeot 204 is unveiled, the first front-wheel-drive car from Peugeot.
• 1976 Following a 32-month construction period, the Palace of the Republic in East Berlin is ceremonially opened. It will house the People's Chamber of the GDR, but will also be used as a people's home and cultural center.
• 1990 In a referendum, 76% of eligible voters vote in favor of renaming Karl-Marx-Stadt back to Chemnitz. The official renaming takes place on 1 June.
• 1994 On the third-to-last matchday of the Bundesliga, Thomas Helmer of FC Bayern Munich scores a so-called “phantom goal” against 1. FC Nürnberg. The DFB subsequently declares the goal invalid and orders the match to be replayed; in the rescheduled match on 3 May, Bayern win 5:0.
• 2005 Jawed Karim, one of the founders of the internet portal YouTube, uploads the first video, “Me at the zoo.”

Born on April 23

• 1891 Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Russian pianist and composer
• 1892 Richard Huelsenbeck, German writer
• 1902 Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer and Nobel laureate
• 1923 Reinhart Koselleck, German historian
• 1940 Dietrich Schwanitz, German Anglicist and writer
• 1941 Jacqueline Boyer, French chanson and pop singer
• 1950 Maria Böhmer, German politician, Bundestag member
• 1961 Dirk Bach, German actor, presenter and comedian
• 1971 Janek Rieke, German actor and director
• 2001 Aniya Wendel, German actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „23. April“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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