On April 23
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly April 23 in the Human Saga — here is the surrounding week in history.
This week in history (Apr 20 – Apr 26)
On 25 April 1953 the journal Nature published a trio of papers describing the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
Dated to Saka year 822, corresponding to 21 April 900 CE, the Laguna Copperplate Inscription is the earliest known calendar-dated written document found in the Philippines.
On 22 April 1500 a Portuguese fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral, bound for India along Vasco da Gama's route, made landfall on the coast of present-day Bahia in South America.
On 21 April 1526 Babur, a Timurid prince from Central Asia, defeated Sultan Ibrahim Lodi of Delhi at Panipat in northern India.
The Baha'i Faith emerged as a distinct world religion in 1863 when Baha'u'llah (Mirza Husayn-Ali Nuri, 1817-1892) declared in the Garden of Ridvan near Baghdad that he was the messianic 'He whom God shall make manifest' foretold by the Bab.
Beginning on 24 April 1915, when Ottoman authorities arrested and deported hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople, the Ottoman government carried out the systematic destruction of its Armenian population…
On 26 April 1956, the SS Ideal X, a converted World War II T-2 oil tanker owned by Malcom McLean's Pan-Atlantic Steamship Company, departed Port Newark, New Jersey, carrying 58 standardised 35-foot truck-trailer containers alongside a load…
The papal transition of 2025 saw the death of Pope Francis and the election of the first US-born pope.
After militants killed 26 tourists, mostly Hindu civilians, in Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir on 22 April 2025, India blamed Pakistan-based groups and launched missile and air strikes inside Pakistan on 7 May under the codename…
The first Earth Day was held on 22 April 1970, conceived by US Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin and coordinated nationally with organiser Denis Hayes.