April 23, 1985
Coca Cola has the biggest brainfart ever, and reformulates its product and releases it as
"New" Coke. Yeah, that lasted three months.
2005
The first YouTube video is uploaded, entitled "
Me, At The Zoo".
Births
James Buchanan-1791; Stephen Douglas-1813; Shirley Temple-1928; Halston, Jim Fixx-1932; Roy Orbison-1936; Lee Majors-1939; Sandra Dee-1942; Hervé Villechaize ("De plane! De plane!")-1943; Narada Michael Walden-1952; James Russo-1953; Tony Atlas-1954; Timothy McVeigh-1968;
and just for Sheldon, John Cena-1977
Deaths
Bill Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes-1616; William Wordsworth-1850; Alferd (no,
not Alfred) Packer-1907; Charles Dawes-1950; William Hartnell (Dr. Who)-1975; Buster Crabbe-1983; Otto Preminger-1986; Johnny Thunders-1991; Cesar Chavez-1993; Howard Cosell, John C. Stennis-1995; James Earl Ray-1998; David Halberstam, Boris Yeltsin-2007