Today is Saturday, April 23, the 114th day of 2016. There are 252 days left in the year.

On this date:

In 1791, the 15th president of the United States, James Buchanan, was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania.

In 1935, Poland adopted a constitution which gave new powers to the presidency.

In 1940, about 200 people died in the Rhythm Night Club Fire in Natchez, Mississippi.

In 1954, Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit the first of his 755 major-league home runs in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals. (The Braves won, 7-5.)

In 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for assassinating New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. (The sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment.)

In 1976, “Ramones,” the debut album of the punk rock group, was released by Sire Records.

In 1986, death claimed composer Harold Arlen at age 81 and movie director Otto Preminger at age 80.

In 1996, a civil court jury in The Bronx, New York, ordered Bernhard Goetz to pay $43 million to Darrell Cabey, one of four young men he’d shot on a subway car in 1984. A three-night auction of the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ possessions began at Sotheby’s in New York with a bidding frenzy.

In 2007, Boris Yeltsin, the first freely elected Russian president, died in Moscow at age 76.