History for April 23

History for April 23 - On-This-Day.com

James Buchanan 1791 - 15th U.S. President, nickname: Old Buck

• 1789 - U.S. President George Washington moved into Franklin House, New York. It was the first executive mansion.
• 1900 - The word "hillbilly" was first used in print in an article in the "New York Journal." It was spelled "Hill-Billie".
• 1908 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt signed an act creating the U.S. Army Reserve
• 1950 - Chaing evacuated Hainan, leaving mainland China to Mao and the communists.
• 1984 - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that Dr. Robert Gallo and his colleagues had found the cause of AIDS. It was a retrovirus labled HTLV-III.
• 1988 - A U.S. federal law took effect that banned smoking on flights that were under two hours.
• 2004 - U.S. President George W. Bush eased sanctions against Libya in return for Moammar Gadhafi's agreement to give up weapons of mass destruction.
• 2005 - The first video was uploaded to YouTube.com.