Today is Sunday, April 23, the 113th day of 2017. There are 252 days left in the year.
Birthdays: Actor Alan Oppenheimer is 87. Actor David Birney is 78. Actor Lee Majors is 78. Hockey Hall of Famer Tony Esposito is 74. Irish nationalist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey is 70. Actress Blair Brown is 70. Writer-director Paul Brickman is 68. Actress Joyce DeWitt is 68. Actor James Russo is 64. Filmmaker-author Michael Moore is 63. Actress Judy Davis is 62. Actress Valerie Bertinelli is 57. Actor Craig Sheffer is 57. Actor-comedian-talk show host George Lopez is 56. Rock musician Gen is 53. US Olympic gold medal skier Donna Weinbrecht is 52. Actress Melina Kanakaredes is 50. Rock musician Stan Frazier (Sugar Ray) is 49. Country musician Tim Womack (Sons of the Desert) is 49. Actor Scott Bairstow is 47. Actor-writer John Lutz is 44. Actor Barry Watson is 43. Rock musician Bryce Dessner (The National) is 41. Professional wrestler/actor John Cena is 40. Actor-writer-comedian John Oliver is 40. Actor Kal Penn is 40. MLB All-Star Andruw Jones is 40. Actress Jaime King is 38. Pop singer Taio Cruz is 34. Actor Aaron Hill is 34. Actor Jesse Lee Soffer is 33. Actress Rachel Skarsten is 32. Singer-songwriter John Fullbright is 29. Tennis player Nicole Vaidisova is 28. Actor Dev Patel is 27. Actor Matthew Underwood is 27. Actor Camryn Walling is 27. Model Gigi Hadid is 22.
In 1935, Poland adopted a constitution that gave new powers to the presidency.
In 1940, 209 people died in the Rhythm Night Club Fire in Natchez, Miss..
In 1954, Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit the first of his 755 major-league home runs in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals.
In 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy the previous June; the sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment.
In 1971, hundreds of Vietnam War veterans opposed to the conflict protested by tossing their medals and ribbons over a wire fence in front of the US Capitol.
In 1987, 28 construction workers were killed when an apartment complex being built in Bridgeport, Conn., suddenly collapsed.
In 1992, McDonald’s opened its first fast-food restaurant in the Chinese capital of Beijing.
In 2005, the recently created video-sharing website YouTube uploaded its first clip.
In 2007, Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first freely elected president, died in Moscow at age 76.
In 2012, the federal government reported that Social Security was rushing even faster toward insolvency, with its trust funds expected to run dry in 2033, three years earlier than previously projected.
Last year, a confident Donald Trump told supporters in Connecticut that he was not changing his pitch to voters, a day after his chief adviser told Republican officials their party’s front-runner would show more restraint while campaigning.