On This Day
23 April
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1795 In Britain the trial to impeach Warren Hastings, governor-general of India (1773-1785), on 21 charges for high crimes and misdemeanors ended after 7 years. Hastings was acquitted on all charges.
- 1935 Kakkanadan, Indian short story writer and novelist in the Malayalam language, was born. His works made break from the neo-realism that dominated Malayalam literature through the 1950s and 1960s.
- 1992 Satyajit Ray, filmmaker, screenwriter, music composer, graphic artist, lyricist and author, died at age 70.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1564 English poet and playwright William Shakespeare died in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon at the age of fifty-two.
- 1616 Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish poet and novelist, author of Don Quixote, died in Madrid.
- 1616 William Shakespeare, English playwright, poet and actor, was born. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".
- 1984 The discovery of the virus causing AIDS was announced. French virologists Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of the HIV virus.
- 2005 The first YouTube video was posted. The 18-second clip "Me at the zoo" shows co-founder Jawed Karim at San Diego Zoo.
- ⭐ Significance
- World Book and Copyright Day, or International Day of the Book, is an annual event organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to promote reading, publishing, and copyright.
- English Language Day was established by UN's Department of Public Information in 2010 "to celebrate multilingualism and cultural diversity as well as to promote equal use of all six official languages throughout the Organization". April 23 was chosen because it is the date traditionally observed as the birthday and the date of death of William Shakespeare.
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