ThisDayThatYear.com - Events from History on March 23

Events from History on March 23

1066 : 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1153 : Treaty of Konstanz between Frederik I "Barbarossa" & Pope Eugene III
1490 : 1st dated edition of Maimonides "Mishna Torah" published
1490 : Maimonides Mishneh Torah published
1534 : Arag¢n legal
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 : English premiere of H„ndel's "Messiah"
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"
1794 : 1st US patent (Joseph G Pierson for a riveting machine)
1794 : Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine
1794 : Lt-general Tadeusz Kosciuszko returns to Poland
1801 : Murder attempt on Czar Paul I
1806 : Lewis & Clark reach Pacific coast
1808 : Napoleon's brother Joseph takes the throne of Spain
1832 : British Parliament passes reform bill
1835 : Charles Darwin reaches Los Arenales, in the Andes
1836 : Coin Press invented by Franklin Beale
1839 : 1st known use of term OK (Boston)
1839 : 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post)
1840 : Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype)
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)
1860 : Asteroid 58, Concordia, discovered (Named for goddess of peace)
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 Pres Johnson's veto
1868 : U of Calif founded (Oakland Calif)
1873 : Slavery abolished in Puerto Rico
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
1891 : 1st jazz concert was held at Carnegie Hall
1896 : Umberto Giordano's opera "Andrea Ch‚nier," premieres in Milan
1901 : Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast
1903 : Wright brothers obtain airplane patent
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 : Cr‚py-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
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
1933 : Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolph 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
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
1942 : #5535 Annefrank
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, 1,500 US Navy ships bomb 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 : 7-6 to Chicago Black Hawks. Mosienko scores 3 times in 21 seconds
1952 : Rangers with less than 14 minutes to go blow a 6-2 lead, losing
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 : 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 : Rally for Decency (Miami)
1970 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 : Dutch 2nd Chamber accept simplified divorce
1971 : USSR performs underground nuclear test
1972 : Evil Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars
1972 : NY Yanks agree to continue playing ball in the Bronx
1973 : After a 5« 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
1976 : International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying)
1978 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 : #3128 Obruchev, #3349, #4236 Lidov & #5859 Ostozhenka
1979 : Wings release "Goodnight Tonight"
1980 : Border completes 150 in each inning of Test Cricket v Pakistan
1980 : France performs nuclear test
1980 : Shah of Iran arrives in Egypt
1981 : Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions,
1981 : Supreme Court upholds law making statutory rape a crime only for men
1981 : 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 Sch”ne 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 : Billy Joel weds supermodel Christie Brinkley
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
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
1990 : Prince William Sound & pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill
1991 : 1st World League of American Football games, London beats Frankfurt
1991 : 20 Tornadoes kill 5 in Tennessee
1991 : 24-11, Sacramento beats Raleigh-Dur 9-3 & Mont beats Birmingham 20-5
1991 : Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.12m)
1992 : #6330 Koen, #6565 Reiji, #6656 Yokota, #6832, #7293, #7342, #7773
1992 : Florida Marlins begin selling tickets
1993 : Belgian govt of Dehaene, resigns
1993 : NY Knicks & Phoenix Suns get into a major brawl
1994 : Amy Fisher's lover Joey Buttafuoco is released from jail
1994 : Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10 km (11:28)
1994 : Howard Stern formally announces his Libertarian run for NY governor
1994 : Joey Buttafuoco, released from jail after 4 months & 9 days
1994 : Richard Jacobs buys naming rights to Indians new ball park at Gateway
1994 : Russian Airbus A-310 crashes in Siberia (74-75 killed)
1994 : 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)
1997 : "Mandy Patinkin in Concert," closes at Lyceum Theater NYC
1997 : 17th Golden Raspberry Awards: Striptease wins
1997 : Wrestlemania XIII in Chicago, Undertaker beats Psycho Sid for title
1997 : wins Standard Register PING
1998 : 70th Academy Awards -

Birthdays

Death Days

Events