What happend on 23rd April

22.04
24.04
2003

Beijing closes all schools for two weeks due to the SARS virus.

2001

Intel introduces the Pentium 4 Processor.

1997

Omaria massacre in Algeria; 42 villagers killed.

1994

Physicists discover the top quark subatomic particle.

1993

Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.

1990

Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the British Commonwealth.

1985

New Coke, a marketing disaster is introduced.

1979

Fighting in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan Police's Special Patrol Group results in the death of protestor Blair Peach.

1974

A Pan American World Airways Boeing 707 crashes in Bali, Indonesia, killing 107.

1968

The United Kingdom produces its first decimalised coins, a 5p and a 10p coin.