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April 23 | |
| 1899 | Birth date of Vladimir Nabokov, novelist. (died 7/2/77) |
| 1934 | Senator Gerald P. Nye is appointed head of committee to investigate profiteering by munitions manufacturers and financiers during WWI. |
| 1940 | Approximately 200 people die in a dance-hall fire in Natchez, Mississippi. |