This Day In History
- Arts
- 1961 Never did Judy Garland so unify a collection of strangers than on April 23, 1961 during the famous Carnegie Hall performance often called “the greatest night in showbiz history.”
- 2016 Lemonade, Beyoncé's sixth solo studio album, was released, later becoming the most acclaimed studio album of Beyoncé's career.
- Crime
- 2018 In the deadliest vehicle-ramming attack in Canadian history, an incel - men who think women owe them sex, and turn aggressive and violent because they can't get it - killed 10 pedestrians and injured 16 others.
- Law
- 2015 Loretta Lynch is confirmed as the first African-American woman as US Attorney-General, the chief lawyer of the US federal government.
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