Template:On this day/April 23

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

April 23:

• 1939 – Pitcher Luther Baxter "Bud" Thomas gives up Ted Williams’s first major league home run; he also once struck out Babe Ruth. Born in Faber and died in North Garden, Virginia.
• 1989 – At New York’s Four Seasons restaurant, a rare 1787 Château Margaux, possibly linked to Thomas Jefferson, is broken; value estimated at $500,000.