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The 1923 FA Cup Final was a football match between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United on 28 April 1923 at the original Wembley Stadium in London. The showpiece match of English football's primary cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (better known as the FA Cup), it was the first football match to be played at Wembley Stadium. The final was preceded by chaotic scenes as vast crowds surged into the stadium, far exceeding its official capacity of approximately 125,000. A crowd estimated at up to 300,000 gained entrance and the terraces overflowed, with the result that spectators found their way into the area around the pitch and even onto the playing area itself. Mounted policemen, including one on a light-coloured horse (pictured) which became the defining image of the day, had to be brought in to clear the crowds from the pitch to allow the match to take place. Although West Ham started strongly, Bolton proved the dominant team for most of the match and won 2–0. The pre-match events prompted discussion in the House of Commons and led to the introduction of a number of safety measures for future finals. The match is often referred to as the "White Horse Final" and is commemorated by the White Horse Bridge at the new Wembley Stadium. (Full article...)

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The 11th-century minaret (pictured) of the Great Mosque of Aleppo in Aleppo, Syria, is destroyed during civil war fighting.

More than 350 people are killed and 1,000 injured when a building collapses outside Dhaka, Bangladesh.

British businessman James McCormick is convicted of fraud for selling fake bomb detectors to military and police forces in several countries.

In association football, Manchester United win the Premier League.

Horacio Cartes is elected President of Paraguay, while his Colorado Party wins a plurality in the Congress.

Orbital Sciences Corporation launches the maiden flight of the Antares rocket, carrying a mockup of the Cygnus spacecraft into orbit.

Ethiopian Tsegaye Kebede and Kenyan Priscah Jeptoo win the men's and women's races, respectively, at the London Marathon.

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April 28: International Workers' Memorial Day; Lag BaOmer (Judaism, 2013)

1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé (pictured) was released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.

1949 – Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, her daughter, and ten bystanders were assassinated by the military arm of the Philippine Communist Party.

1952 – Japan and the Republic of China signed the Treaty of Taipei to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War, seven years after fighting in that conflict ended due to World War II.

1975 – Chief of the South Vietnamese army Cao Van Vien fled the country as the North Vietnamese closed in on Saigon.

1994 – Former CIA counter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleaded guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.

2001 – Dennis Tito became the world's first fee-paying space tourist, riding the Russian Soyuz TM-32 spacecraft to the International Space Station.

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Saint Joseph's Oratory is a Roman Catholic minor basilica and national shrine in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Construction of the church, the largest in the country, was initiated in 1904. It is considered a National Historic Site.

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