What Happened on April 2, 2023

Historical Events

CMT Music Awards

22nd CMT Video Music Awards: Kane Brown and Katelyn Brown, Lainey Wilson, and Jelly Roll win

41st NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: American Airlines Center Dallas, Texas: LSU defeat Iowa Hawkeyes, 102-85 to win Tigers' first-ever national title; MOP: Angel Reese (LSU)

Event of Interest

Finnish parliamentary elections give center right National Coalition Party lead by Petteri Orpo a slender advantage defeating PM Sanna Marin's center left Social Democrats without a clear majority [1]

Footage of deepest living fish ever recorded, the snailfish, released caught on camera at depth of 27,349 feet (8,336 meters) in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench, south of Japan [1]
Lake Tulare, once the largest body of water west of the Mississippi, re-emerges after a series of storms in California's Central Valley to cover 160 square miles [1]

Events in 2023

Famous Deaths

Salim Durani, Indian cricket all-rounder (29 Tests, 1 x 100, 74 wickets, BB 6/73; Saurashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan), dies from cancer at 88
Seymour Stein [Steinbigle], American music label executive (Sire Records- signed Madonna, Ramones, Talking Heads), and co-founder of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, dies of cancer at 80 [1]

Died in 2023 2023 Highlights