Unix Timestamp: 1082678400
Friday, April 23. 2004, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Greece activates the €45 billion aid package it was offered by Europe earlier in the month to combat the country's debt crisis. //www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/23/AR2010042301437.html?hpid=topnews ("Washington Post")

General Motors will temporarily close 13 factories in the United States and Mexico. //www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1012797.html (AP via "Miami Herald")

NASA releases the first 3D images of the Sun acquired by the STEREO spacecraft. //www.physorg.com/news96559635.html (PhysOrg)

42 villagers are killed in the Omaria massacre in Algeria.

A tropical cyclone hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 138,000 people.

A powerful earthquake kills at least 360 people in Georgia.

70 tornadoes break out in the central United States, killing 17. The most notable tornado of the day strikes Andover, Kansas.

Prime Minister of IcelandSteingrímur Hermannsson resigns following an inconclusive parliamentary election on April 20. On April 30, he is succeeded as prime minister by Davíð Oddsson.

Esko Aho, age 36, becomes the youngest-ever Prime Minister of Finland.

STS-39: Space Shuttle "Discovery" lifts off from Cape Canaveral to study instruments related to the Strategic Defense Initiative. The mission ends on May 6.

STS-39: Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' lifts off from Cape Canaveral to study instruments related to the Strategic Defense Initiative. The mission ends on May 6.

Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. (The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months.)

Dennis Wardlow, mayor of Key West, Florida, declares the independent Conch Republic for a day.

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

The punk rock group The Ramones release their first self-titled album.

April 30 ndash Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university (see main article Columbia University protests of 1968).

A group of young radicals are expelled from the Nicaraguan Socialist Party (PSN). This group goes on to found the Socialist Workers Party (POS).

The bodies of Portuguese opposition politician Humberto Delgado and his secretary Arajaryr Moreira de Cos are found in a forest near Villanueva del Fresno, Spain (they were killed February 12).

The 1965 Yerevan demonstrations start in Yerevan, demanding recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

In the Dominican Republic, officers and civilians loyal to deposed President Juan Bosch mutiny against the right-wing junta running the country, setting up a provisional government. Forces loyal to the deposed military-imposed government stage a countercoup the next day, and civil war breaks out, although the new government retains its hold on power.

The Pennine Way officially opens.

Judy Garland performs in a legendary comeback concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Chinese Communist troops take Nanjing.

The Eastern Pennsylvania Basketball League (Which is now the CBA) is founded.

William Temple enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.

The America First Committee holds its first mass rally in New York City, with Charles Lindbergh as keynote speaker.

A fire at the Rhythm Night Club in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198.

British Empire Exhibition opens. It was the largest colonial exhibition with 58 countries of the empire dramatically represented.

The Gdynia seaport is inaugurated.

he Turkish Council is founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. It denounces the government of SultanMehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution.

ANZAC day is observed for the first time in Australia.

Pancho Villa takes Parral, Chihuahua, in Mexico, and executed by hanging both the mayor and his two sons.

The Constituent Assembly of Estonia convenes its first session.

The "Bauhaus" architectural movement is founded in Weimar, Germany.

In Tsarist Russia, the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma.

May ndash Jack London's novel "White Fang" is serialized in "The Outing Magazine".

The Second Serbian Uprising against Ottoman rule takes place in Takovo, Serbia. By the end of the year Serbia is acknowledged as a semi-independent state the ideals of the First Serbian Uprising have thus been temporarily achieved.

Former Governor-General of IndiaWarren Hastings is acquitted by the British House of Lords of misconduct.ref name=Cassell's Chronology

King Charles II of England, Scotland, Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey, for the second time.

Saint George\\\\'s Day) ndash English Civil War: One hundred and fifty Irish soldiers bound for service with King Charles I of England are captured at sea by Parliamentarians and killed at Pembroke in Wales.

Saint George's Day) ndash English Civil War: One hundred and fifty Irish soldiers bound for service with King Charles I of England are captured at sea by Parliamentarians and killed at Pembroke in Wales.

Stadtholder Maurice of Nassau of the Dutch Republic dies and is succeeded by his younger brother, Frederick Henry.

The Earl of Essex arrives in Dublin at the head of 16,000 troops, the largest army ever seen in Ireland.

Probable first performance of William Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor".

July ndash Selim I of the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Mameluks and invades Syria.

The Reinheitsgebot is instituted in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, regulating the purity of beer permissible for sale.

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, routes troops to Bavaria.

Malmö in Denmark (now Sweden) receives its current coat of arms.

In recognition of his services, Edward III of England grants the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer a gallon of wine a day for the rest of his life.

The St. George\'s Night Uprising occurs in Estonia (-1345).

The St. George's Night Uprising occurs in Estonia (-1345).

Alfonso IX of León conquers Cáceres.

Nur ad-Din Zangi gains control of Damascus, uniting Syria under one ruler.

(around): Nur ad-Din Zangi establishes the al-Nuri hospital in Damascus.

July ndash Battle of Salonica fought in Greece between First Bulgarian Empire and Byzantine Empire.

Battle of Clontarf: Gaelic Irish forces under Brian Boru defeat several allied Viking forces in Ireland, ending their power there but losing Brian in the battle.