April 23
1953
Army-McCarthy Hearings Begin
1963
William Lewis Moore, a postman from Baltimore, was shot and killed in Attalla, Ala. during a one-man march against segregation. Moore had planned to deliver a letter to the governor of Mississippi urging an end to intolerance.
1968
Students at Columbia University in New York City occupied campus buildings to protest war research and the razing of part of the community in Harlem to make way for a new student gymnasium.
1971
In the final event of Operation Dewey Canyon III, nearly 1,000 Vietnam War veterans threw their combat ribbons, helmets, and uniforms on the Capitol steps along with toy weapons.
1996
Nineteen demonstrators were arrested in the capital, Kiev, during an illegal anti-nuclear protest marking the 10th anniversary of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl in the Ukraine.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 