📜 This Day in History

April 23

• 1014The Vikings were defeated by the Irish at the Battle of Clontarf.
• 1467Ottoman wars in Europe: Albanian leader Skanderbeg defeated an Ottoman army under Ballaban Badera to raise the siege of Krujë.
• 1918First World War: The British Royal Navy launched unsuccessful raids on Ostend and Zeebrugge in German-occupied Belgium.
• 1945World War II: The US Army's 90th Infantry Division liberated Flossenbürg concentration camp in Germany, freeing 1,500 prisoners.
• 1979Blair Peach, a New Zealand teacher, was fatally injured while taking part in an Anti-Nazi League demonstration against a National Front election meeting in Southall, London.
• 2018A man intentionally struck pedestrians with a van on Yonge Street in Toronto, Canada, leading to 11 deaths.

Born on this day

• 1564William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet (died 1616)
• 1791James Buchanan, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 15th President of the United States (died 1868)
• 1858Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1947)
• 1902Halldór Laxness, Icelandic author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1998)