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This day in history: April 23

1. 1971

   The Rolling Stones released Sticky Fingers, the first album on their own label, Rolling Stones Records.

2. 1976

   The American band the Ramones released their debut album, which became highly influential on the emerging punk rock movement.

3. 1979

   Blair Peach, a New Zealand teacher, was fatally injured while taking part in an Anti-Nazi League demonstration against a National Front election meeting in Southall, London.

4. 1982

   The ZX Spectrum, Britain's best-selling microcomputer, was released.

5. 2009

   The gamma-ray burst GRB 090423 was detected coming from the most distant astronomical object of any kind known at the time.

6. 2010

   Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed into law the controversial anti–illegal immigration bill SB 1070, much of which was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

7. 2018

   A man intentionally struck pedestrians with a van on Yonge Street in Toronto, Canada, leading to 11 deaths.

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