Daily Calendar for April 23rd, 2017

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

Every Year

• World Book and Copyright Day

• St. George's Day (N.L., Can.)

1530s

• 1533: Church of England annulled the marriage between Catherine of Aragon and King Henry VIII

1560s

• Born 1564: William Shakespeare (playwright)

1610s

• Died 1616: William Shakespeare (playwright)

1790s

• Born 1791: James Buchanan (15th U.S. president)

1850s

• Died 1850: William Wordsworth (poet)

• 1851: First postage stamps issued in Canada

1870s

• 1879: Guelph, Ontario, incorporated as a city

1890s

• Born 1897: Lester Pearson (Canadian prime minister)

1920s

• Born 1928: Shirley Temple Black (actress)

1930s

• Born 1936: Roy Orbison (musician)

• Born 1939: Lee Majors (actor)

1940s

• Born 1943: Tony Esposito (hockey player)

1950s

• 1954: Hank Aaron hit his first major league home run

• Born 1955: Judy Davis (actress)

1960s

• Born 1960: Valerie Bertinelli (actress)

• Born 1961: George Lopez (comedian & actor)

• 1962: Ranger 4 spacecraft launched

• 1966: Natalie Wood made Harvard history when she became the first performer voted the year's worst by the Harvard Lampoon to show up and accept her citation

• Born 1967: Melina Kanakaredes (actress)

1980s

• Died 1986: Harold Arlen (composer)

1990s

• Died 1995: Howard Cosell (sports journalist)

2000s

• Died 2005: Paul K. Keene (pioneer of organic farming in U.S.)

• Died 2007: David Halberstam (Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter)

• Died 2007: Boris Yeltsin (president of Russia)