On This Day:
Thursday April 23, 2015 This is the 113th day of the year, with 252 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: Socratic method The Socratic method is to start with whatever seems the most satisfactory "hypothesis," or postulate, about a given subject and then consider the consequences that follow from it. So far as these consequences proved to be true and consistent, the "hypothesis" might be regarded as provisionally confirmed. But one should not confuse inquiry into the consequences of the "hypothesis" with proof of its truth. The question of truth could be settled only by deducing the initial "hypothesis" as a consequence from some more ultimate, accepted "hypothesis." It is a philosophical method of systematic doubt and questioning of another to elicit a clear expression of a truth supposed to be implicitly known by all rational beings.
Holidays Feast day of St. George, St. Gerard of Toul, St. Ibar, St. Adalbert of Prague, and Saints Felix, Fortunatus, and Achilleus.
Bermuda: Peppercorn Day.
England: St. George's Day.
Germany: Biertag.
Turkey: National Sovereignty and Children's Day.
Events 1348 - English King Edward III founded the Order of the Garter, the first order of knighthood.
1635 - The Boston Latin School opened -- America's oldest public school.
1789 - President-elect George Washington and his wife moved into the first executive mansion, the Franklin House, in New York.
1896 - The Vitascope system for projecting movies onto a screen was demonstrated in New York City, inaugurating the first movie theater at Koster and Bials Music Hall.
1968 - The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church merged to form the United Methodist Church.
1969 - Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy; a sentence later reduced to life imprisonment.
1988 - A federal ban on smoking during domestic airline flights of two hours or less went into effect.
1994 - Physicists at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory found evidence of the top quark.
2003 - Beijing closes all schools for two weeks due to the SARS virus.
Births 1564 - William Shakespeare, English dramatist and poet (generally accepted date).
1791 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States of America (1857-1861).
1813 - Stephen A. Douglas, American politician.
1858 - Max Planck, German physicist who developed quantum theory.
1873 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian-born American musician, pianist, composer.
1928 - Shirley Temple Black, American child actress, U.S. United Nations diplomat and Chief of Protocol.
1932 - Halston (Roy Halston Frowick), American fashion designer.
1936 - Roy Orbison, American singer and musician.
1961 - George Lopez, American actor and comedian.
1968 - Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist.
Deaths 1616 - William Shakespeare, English actor, poet, and playwright.
1993 - César Chávez, Mexican-American labor activist.
1995 - Howard Cosell (born Howard William Cohen), American sportscaster.
2007 - American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam.
2007 - Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
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