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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.