April 23 in history: • 1016 – Edmund Ironside became King of England, reigning for only seven months before the country was conquered by Cnut the Great. → go there • 1891 – Chilean Civil War: The armored frigate Blanco Encalada (pictured) was sunk at the Battle of Caldera Bay, the first ironclad warship lost to a self-propelled torpedo. → go there • 1976 – The American band the Ramones released their debut album, which became highly influential on the emerging punk rock movement. → go there • 2009 – The gamma-ray burst GRB 090423 was detected coming from the most distant astronomical object of any kind known at the time. → go there Born 1895: Ngaio Marsh Wiki link Born 1901: E. B. Ford Wiki link Born 1986: Patricia Paputsakis Wiki link Died 2021: Dan Kaminsky Wiki link Pictured: ''Blanco Encalada''.