Notable Historical Events on March 23rd
March 23rd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1026 |
Koenraad II crowns himself king of Italy |
1066 |
18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
1153 |
Treaty of Konstanz between Frederick I "Barbarossa" & Pope Eugene III |
1174 |
Jocelin, abbot of Melrose, is elected bishop of Glasgow. |
1490 |
1st dated edition of Maimonides "Mishneh Torah" published |
1534 |
Aragonese legal code formally recognised |
1568 |
Treaty of Longjumeau: French huguenots go on strike |
1579 |
Friesland joins Union of Utrecht |
1593 |
English Congressionalist Henry Barrow accused of slander |
1630 |
French troops occupy Pinerolo Piedmont |
1657 |
France & England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk |
1708 |
English pretender to the throne James III lands at Firth of Forth |
1743 |
George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London |
1752 |
Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later |
1775 |
Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death" in speech in favour of Virginian troops joining US Revolutionary war |
1794 |
Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine |
1794 |
Lt-general Tadeusz Kosciuszko returns to Poland |
1808 |
Napoleon's brother Joseph takes the throne of Spain |
1821 |
Battle and fall of city of Kalamata, Greek War of Independence. |
1832 |
British Parliament passes reform bill |
1835 |
Charles Darwin reaches Los Arenales, in the Andes |
1836 |
Coin Press invented by Franklin Beale |
1839 |
1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post) |
1840 |
Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype) |
1848 |
The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded. |
1849 |
Battle of Novara (King Charles Albert vs Italian republic) |
1857 |
Elisha Otis' 1st elevator installed (488 Broadway, NYC) |
1858 |
Streetcar patented (E A Gardner of Phila) |
1861 |
London's 1st tramcars, designed by Mr Train of NY, begins operating |
1862 |
Battle of Kernstown VA-Jackson begins his Valley Campaign |
1864 |
Encounter at Camden AR |
1865 |
General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro NC |
1867 |
Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto |
1868 |
University of California founded (Oakland California) |
1879 |
War of the Pacific was fought between Chile and the joints forces of Bolivia and Peru. Chile successfully took over Arica and Tarapacá which left Bolivia as a landlocked country. |
1880 |
Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisc) |
1881 |
Boers & Britain sign peace accord; end 1st Boer war |
1881 |
Gas lamp sets fire to Nice France opera house; 70 die |
1889 |
Pres Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization |
1889 |
The free Woolwich Ferry officially opens in east London. |
1889 |
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India. |
1896 |
Umberto Giordano's opera "Andrea Chénier," premieres in Milan |
1896 |
The Raines Law is passed by the New York State Legislature, restricting Sunday sale of alcohol to hotels. |
1901 |
Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast |
1903 |
Wright brothers obtain airplane patent |
1908 |
American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later. |
1910 |
1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st US auto speedway) |
1912 |
Dixie Cup invented |
1915 |
Zion Mule Corp forms |
1917 |
Tornadoes kills 211 over 4 days in Midwest US |
1918 |
Alick Wickham dives 200' into Australia's Yarra River |
1918 |
Crépy-en-Laonnoise: German artillery shells Paris, 256 killed |
1918 |
Lithuania proclaims independence |
1918 |
Paris bombs "Thick Bertha's Dike" (nickname for the widow Krupp) |
1919 |
Bashkir ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted |
1919 |
Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan Italy |
1919 |
Moscow's Politburo/Central Committee forms |
1920 |
Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms |
1922 |
1st airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington, DC |
1922 |
KMJ-AM in Fresno CA begins radio transmissions |
1922 |
WEW-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions |
1923 |
Frank Silver & Irving Conn release "Yes, We Have No Bananas" |
1925 |
Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution |
1926 |
NHL Championship: Mont Canadiens outscore Pitt Pirates, 6-4 in 2 games |
1929 |
1st telephone installed in White House |
1930 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
1930 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner |
1931 |
Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev embrace the gallows during the Indian struggle for independence. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused. |
1933 |
Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers |
1933 |
Kroll Opera in Berlin opens |
1934 |
US Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945 |
1936 |
Italy, Austria & Hungary sign Pact of Rome |
1936 |
Physician Joseph Hamilton injects a leukemia patient with a sodium radioisotope, the first intravenous injection of a human with a radioisotope |
1937 |
LA Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars |
1938 |
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis frees 74 St L Cardinals minor leaguers |
1940 |
1st radio broadcast of "Truth or Consequences" on CBS |
1940 |
All-India-Moslem League calls for a Moslem homeland |
1940 |
The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League. |
1942 |
2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deported |
1942 |
Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean |
1942 |
US move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers |
1943 |
German counter attack on US lines in Tunisia |
1944 |
Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome, 33 die |
1944 |
Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute & lives |
1945 |
British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine |
1945 |
Largest operation in Pacific War (WWII), 1,500 US Navy ships bomb Japanese island of Okinawa |
1945 |
Premier Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen |
1946 |
8th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats NC 43-40 |
1948 |
John Cunningham sets world altitude record (54,492' (18,133 m)) |
1949 |
Sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story," premieres in NYC |
1950 |
"Great to Be Alive" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 perfs |
1950 |
22rd Academy Awards - "All King's Men," Crawford & De Havilland win |
1950 |
Sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greeks government |
1950 |
UN World Meteorological Org established |
1951 |
Wages in France increase 11% |
1952 |
Rangers with less than 14 minutes to go blow a 6-2 lead, losing 7-6 to Chicago Black Hawks. Mosienko scores 3 times in 21 seconds |
1956 |
18th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: SF beats Iowa 83-71 |
1956 |
Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (Natl Day) |
1956 |
Sudan becomes independent |
1957 |
19th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: NC beats Kansas 54-53 (3 OTs) |
1957 |
US army sells last homing pigeons |
1960 |
Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit |
1962 |
JFK visits SF |
1962 |
Nawab of Pataudi captains India cricket v WI age 21 years 77 days |
1962 |
Wake Forest coach "Bones" McKinney becomes 2nd person to play & coach |
1962 |
William DeWitt buys Cin Reds for $4,625,000 |
1963 |
25th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Loyola beats Cin 60-58 (OT) |
1963 |
Rolf Hochhuth's "Der Stellvertreter," premieres in Berlin |
1964 |
UNCTAD 1 world conference opens in Geneva |
1965 |
Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight (Grissom & Young) |
1965 |
Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed |
1966 |
1st official meeting after 400 years of Catholic & Anglican Church |
1968 |
30th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats NC 78-55 |
1968 |
Rev Walter Fauntroy, is 1st non-voting congressional delegate from DC |
1969 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Charlotte Golf Invitational |
1969 |
Rally for Decency (Miami) |
1970 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1971 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1972 |
Evel Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars |
1972 |
NY Yanks agree to continue playing ball in the Bronx |
1973 |
After a 5½ year run soap "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" ends |
1973 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1973 |
Yoko Ono is granted permanent residence in US |
1975 |
Sue Roberts wins LPGA Bing Crosby International Golf Classic |
1976 |
International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying) |
1978 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1979 |
Larry Holmes TKOs Osvaldo Ocasio in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
1979 |
Wings release "Goodnight Tonight" |
1980 |
Border completes 150 in each inning of Test Cricket v Pakistan |
1980 |
Donna Caponi Young Pro-Am wins LPGA National Golf Tournament |
1980 |
France performs nuclear test |
1980 |
Shah of Iran arrives in Egypt |
1981 |
Supreme Court upholds law making statutory rape a crime only for men |
1981 |
Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls sought abortions |
1982 |
Guatemala military coup under gen Rios Montt, pres Romeo Lucas flees |
1982 |
Isle's Mike Bossy's 20th career hat trick-4 goals |
1983 |
US President Ronald Reagan introduces "Star Wars"-plan (SDI) |
1984 |
Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 3 km (4:20.91) |
1984 |
Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa won by J Torvill & Chris Dean (GRB) |
1984 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Underhill & Paul Martini (CAN) |
1984 |
Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Katarina Witt (GDR) |
1984 |
Men's Fig Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Scott Hamilton (USA) |
1985 |
Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-D mission |
1985 |
Julian Lennon's 1st concert (San Antonio Texas) |
1985 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1986 |
6th Golden Raspberry Awards: Rambo: First Blood Part II wins |
1986 |
Heavyweight Trevor Berbick KOs Pinklon Thomas |
1986 |
Penny Pulz wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open |
1987 |
Soap "Bold & Beautiful" premieres |
1987 |
US offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf |
1987 |
West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns |
1989 |
2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature |
1989 |
Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 yrs for killing his adopted daughter |
1990 |
Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound & pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill |
1991 |
20 Tornadoes kill 5 in Tennessee |
1991 |
Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.12m) |
1991 |
1st World League of American Football games, London beats Frankfurt 24-11, Sacramento beats Raleigh-Dur 9-3 & Mont beats Birmingham 20-5 |
1992 |
Florida Marlins begin selling tickets |
1993 |
Belgian government of Dehaene, resigns |
1993 |
NY Knicks & Phoenix Suns get into a major brawl |
1994 |
Amy Fisher's lover Joey Buttafuoco is released from jail after 4 months & 9 days |
1994 |
Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10 km (11:28) |
1994 |
Howard Stern formally announces his Libertarian run for NY governor |
1994 |
Last day of Test cricket for Kapil Dev |
1994 |
Russian Airbus A-310 crashes in Siberia (74-75 killed) |
1994 |
Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 802 goals scored |
1994 |
Richard Jacobs buys naming rights to Indians new ball park at Gateway for $13.8 million (renamed Jacobs Field) |
1995 |
"How To Succeed in Business..." opens at R Rodgers NYC for 548 perfs |
1995 |
Dollar equals 88.41 yen (record) |
1996 |
Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President. |
1997 |
"Mandy Patinkin in Concert," closes at Lyceum Theater NYC |
1997 |
17th Golden Raspberry Awards: Striptease wins |
1997 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Standard Register PING |
1997 |
Liberty Legends of Senior Golf |
1997 |
Phil Mickelson wins Bay Hill Golf Invitiational |
1997 |
Wrestlemania XIII in Chicago, Undertaker beats Psycho Sid for title |
1997 |
wins Standard Register PING |
1998 |
70th Academy Awards - "Titanic," Jack Nicholson & Helen Hunt win |
1999 |
Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña. |
2000 |
Joe Sakic records his 400th career goal and becomes the Quebec Nordiques/Colorado Avalanche all-time leading point scorer |
2001 |
The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji. |
2002 |
22nd Golden Raspberry Awards: Freddy Got Fingered wins |
2003 |
In Nasiriyah, Iraq, 11 soldiers of the 507th Maintenance Company as well as 18 U.S. Marines are killed during the first major conflict of Operation Iraqi Freedom. |
2003 |
75th Academy Awards - "Chicago," Adrien Brody & Nicole Kidman win |
2004 |
Andhra Pradesh Federation of Trade Unions holds its first conference in Hyderabad, India. |
2005 |
The United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, refuses to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube. |
2005 |
A major explosion at the Texas City Refinery kills 15 workers. |
2006 |
The Federal Reserve discontinues publishing M3 money supply. |
2007 |
Burnley Tunnel catastrophe occurs in Melbourne, Australia. |
2007 |
Iranian Navy seize Royal Navy personnel in Iraqi waters. |
2007 |
After some initial hesitation, Emma Watson signs on to appear as Hermione in the final three Harry Potter films |
2012 |
African Union suspends Mali's membership following a coup |
2013 |
20 people are killed and 200 are injured by a tornado in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh |
2013 |
The US Senate approves its first budget in four years by a margin of 50—49 |
2016 |
With Presidents Obama, Castro Watching, Rays Beat Cuban Team |
2016 |
US Election 2016: Trump and Clinton win big in Arizona |
2017 |
United States Beats Puerto Rico for First World Baseball Classic Title |
2018 |
China urges US against taking trade relations to 'dangerous place' |
2018 |
China strikes back in trade spat, aims tariffs at $3 billion US goods |
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