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According to Christian tradition, Jesus Christ was raised from the dead on this date, making it the very first Easter. Easter would not fall on April 23rd again until the year 2000.
1858
German physicist Max Planck was born.
1891
Jews were expelled from Moscow, Russia.
1903
William James was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the third psychologist to receive that honor.
1903
Ivan Pavlov presented his seminal paper "Experimental Psychology and Psychopathology of Animals" to the International Congress of Medicine at Madrid. This was the first public explanation of his research into conditioned and unconditioned reflexes.
1956
Sigmund Freud was featured on cover of Time magazine (for third time).
1968
In Dallas, the Methodist and the Evangelical United Brethren churches unified to form the United Methodist Church, creating the second largest Protestant denomination in the USA.
2002
Over the course of 48 hours, the American cardinals met with Pope John Paul II and other Vatican officials to discuss the scandal of priests who had sexually abused children and bishops who covered up the crimes after the fact.
2006
Holy Pascha (Easter) is celebrated in Eastern Christendom. For Christians, Easter commemorates the date Jesus Christ is believed to have risen from the dead, three days after he was crucified by Roman soldiers.
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