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23 Mar 1066
18th recorded perihelion passage of Halleys Comet
23 Mar 1174
Jocelin abbot of Melrose is elected bishop of Glasgow
23 Mar 1490
1st dated edition of Maimonides Mishneh Torah a code of Jewish religious law is published
23 Mar 1568
Treaty of Longjumeau French huguenots go on strike
23 Mar 1593
English Separatist Puritans John Greenwood and Henry Barrowe tried and sentenced to death on the charge of devising and circulating seditious books
23 Mar 1657
France & England form alliance against Spain England gets Dunkirk
23 Mar 1708
Pretender to the English throne James III lands at Firth of Forth
23 Mar 1752
Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias dies 2 days later
23 Mar 1782
Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos is published by Durand Neveu
23 Mar 1794
Josiah Pierson patents a cold-header (rivet) machine
23 Mar 1794
Lt-general Tadeusz Kosciuszko returns to Poland
23 Mar 1821
Battle and fall of city of Kalamata Greek War of Independence
23 Mar 1839
1st recorded use of OK [oll korrect] (Bostons Morning Post)
23 Mar 1840
Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerreotype)
23 Mar 1848
The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
23 Mar 1849
Battle of Novara (King Charles Albert vs Italian republic)
23 Mar 1858
Streetcar patented (E A Gardner of Philadelphia)
23 Mar 1861
Londons 1st tramcars designed by Mr Train of NY begins operating
23 Mar 1862
Battle of Kernstown Virginia Jackson begins his Valley Campaign
23 Mar 1868
University of California founded in Oakland California
23 Mar 1877
39th Grand National Fred Hobson aboard 151 shot Austerlitz wins by 4 lengths from Congress
23 Mar 1879
War of the Pacific fought between Chile and the joints forces of Bolivia and Peru. Chile successfully takes over Arica and Tarapac leaving Bolivia a landlocked country.
23 Mar 1880
Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisconsin)
23 Mar 1881
Boers & Britain sign peace accord end 1st Boer war
23 Mar 1881
Gas lamp sets fire to opera house in Nice France 70 die
23 Mar 1882
The Edmunds Act (Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act) is adopted by the US to suppress polygamy. 1300 men are later imprisoned under the act
23 Mar 1888
50th Grand National George Mawson aboard 401 outsider Playfair easily wins by 10 lengths from Frigate
23 Mar 1889
The free Woolwich Ferry officially opens in east London
23 Mar 1889
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community established by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India
23 Mar 1896
Umberto Giordanos opera Andrea Chnier premieres in Milan
23 Mar 1896
The Raines Law is passed by the New York State Legislature restricting Sunday sale of alcohol to hotels
23 Mar 1901
Dame Nellie Melba reveals secret of her now famous toast
23 Mar 1903
The Wright brothers 1st file a patent for a flying machine which is granted 3 years later
23 Mar 1908
American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan leading to his death in hospital two days later
23 Mar 1918
Alick Wickham dives 200 into Australias Yarra River
23 Mar 1918
Crpy-en-Laonnoise German artillery shells Paris 256 killed
23 Mar 1918
Paris bombs Thick Berthas Dike (nickname for the widow Krupp)
23 Mar 1918
German forces advance 14 miles to the Somme River (WW1)
23 Mar 1920
Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms
23 Mar 1921
Germany announces it will be unable to meet its Great War reparation payments
23 Mar 1922
1st airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington D.C.
23 Mar 1922
KMJ-AM in Fresno CA begins radio transmissions
23 Mar 1922
WEW-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions
23 Mar 1923
Frank Silver & Irving Conn release Yes We Have No Bananas
23 Mar 1923
82nd Grand National Capt. Tuppy Bennett wins aboard 13-year-old 1006 shot Sergeant Murphy first US bred horse to win race
23 Mar 1926
NHL Championship Montreal Canadiens outscore Pitt Pirates 6-4 in 2 games
23 Mar 1934
93rd Grand National Gerry Wilson wins aboard 81 Golden Miller in race record 920.04 becomes only horse to win both UKs premier steeplechases with Cheltenham Gold Cup victory
23 Mar 1938
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis frees 74 St L Cardinals minor leaguers
23 Mar 1940
1st radio broadcast of Truth or Consequences on CBS
23 Mar 1940
All-India-Muslim League calls for a Muslim homeland
23 Mar 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.
23 Mar 1942
Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean
23 Mar 1944
Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome 33 die
23 Mar 1944
Royal Air Force gunner Nicholas Alkemade falls 5500 m out of a plane without a parachute over Nazi Germany and lives
23 Mar 1945
British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine into Germany
23 Mar 1945
Premier Churchill visits Montgomerys headquarter in Straelen
23 Mar 1946
8th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Oklahoma State beats North Carolina 43-40
23 Mar 1948
10th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Kentucky beats Baylor 58-42
23 Mar 1948
John Cunningham sets world altitude record (54492 (18133 m))
23 Mar 1949
Sidney Kingsleys Detective Story premieres in NYC
23 Mar 1950
Great to Be Alive opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 performances
23 Mar 1950
Sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greek government
23 Mar 1950
Frances Farmer is released from Western State Hospital
23 Mar 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
23 Mar 1956
18th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship San Francisco beats Iowa 83-71
23 Mar 1956
Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day)
23 Mar 1957
19th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship North Carolina beats Kansas 54-53 (3 OT)
23 Mar 1962
Nawab of Pataudi captains India cricket v WI age 21 years 77 days
23 Mar 1962
Wake Forest coach Bones McKinney becomes 2nd person to play and coach
23 Mar 1962
William DeWitt buys Cincinnati Reds for 4625000
23 Mar 1963
25th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Loyola beats Cincinnati 60-58 (OT)
23 Mar 1963
Rolf Hochhuths Der Stellvertreter premieres in Berlin
23 Mar 1963
8th Eurovision Song Contest Grethe and Jorgen Ingmann for Denmark win singing Dansevise in London
23 Mar 1965
Gemini 3 launched 1st US 2-man space flight (Grissom & Young)
23 Mar 1965
Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators about 100 killed
23 Mar 1966
1st official meeting after 400 years of Catholic & Anglican Church
23 Mar 1968
30th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship UCLA beats North Carolina 78-55
23 Mar 1968
Rev Walter Fauntroy is 1st non-voting congressional delegate from DC
23 Mar 1968
France retains the Five Nations Rugby Championship with an 14-9 win over Wales at the National Stadium Cardiff first Grand Slam victory for France
23 Mar 1970
Hello Darlin single released by Conway Twitty (Billboard Song of the Year )
23 Mar 1972
NY Yanks agree to continue playing ball in the Bronx
23 Mar 1973
After a 5 year run soap Love is a Many Splendored Thing ends
23 Mar 1974
AIAW Womens Basketball Tournament Immaculata beat Mississippi College 68-53 in Manhattan Kansas
23 Mar 1976
International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying)
23 Mar 1980
Allan Border becomes the first and only batsman to reach 150 in each innings of a test Australia v Pakistan Third Test in Lahore
23 Mar 1980
AIAW Womens Basketball Tournament Old Dominion beat Tennessee 68-53 at Mount Pleasant
23 Mar 1980
PGA Tournament Players Championship Sawgrass CC Lee Trevino wins by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Ben Crenshaw
23 Mar 1981
US Supreme Court upholds law making statutory rape a crime only for men
23 Mar 1981
US Supreme Court rules states could require with some exceptions parental notification when teen-age girls sought abortions
23 Mar 1981
PGA Tournament Players Championship Sawgrass CC Raymond Floyd beats Barry Jaeckel and Curtis Strange on the first hole of a sudden death playoff in a rain affected Monday finish
23 Mar 1984
Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 3 km (420.91)
23 Mar 1984
World Ice Dancing Championship won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (GRB) in Ottawa Canada
23 Mar 1984
Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Underhill & Paul Martini (CAN)
23 Mar 1984
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
23 Mar 1984
Mens Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
23 Mar 1985
Space Shuttle Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-D mission
23 Mar 1985
Julian Lennons 1st concert (San Antonio Texas)
23 Mar 1986
6th Golden Raspberry Awards Rambo First Blood Part II wins
23 Mar 1986
Penny Pulz wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open
23 Mar 1986
First of 2 WTA Tour Championships of the year change of tennis schedule Martina Navratilova wins 4th straight and 7th overall title 62 60 36 61 against Hana Mandlkov in NYC
23 Mar 1987
US offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf
23 Mar 1989
2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature
23 Mar 1989
Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 yrs for killing his adopted daughter
23 Mar 1990
Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound & pay 50000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill
23 Mar 1991
Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.12m)
23 Mar 1991
1st World League of American Football games London beats Frankfurt 24-11 Sacramento beats Raleigh-Dur 9-3 & Mont beats Birmingham 20-5
23 Mar 1993
Belgian government of Jean-Luc Dehaene resigns
23 Mar 1993
NY Knicks & Phoenix Suns get into a major brawl
23 Mar 1994
Amy Fishers lover Joey Buttafuoco is released from jail after 4 months & 9 days
23 Mar 1994
Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10 km (1128)
23 Mar 1994
Russian Airbus A-310 crashes in Siberia (74-75 killed)
23 Mar 1996
Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
23 Mar 1997
Mandy Patinkin in Concert closes at Lyceum Theater NYC
23 Mar 1997
17th Golden Raspberry Awards Striptease wins
23 Mar 1997
Wrestlemania XIII in Chicago Undertaker beats Psycho Sid for title
23 Mar 1999
Gunmen assassinate Paraguays Vice President Luis Mara Argaa
23 Mar 2001
The Russian Mir space station is disposed of breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji
23 Mar 2002
22nd Golden Raspberry Awards Freddy Got Fingered wins
23 Mar 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
23 Mar 2004
Andhra Pradesh Federation of Trade Unions holds its first conference in Hyderabad India
23 Mar 2005
The United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision refuses to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavos feeding tube
23 Mar 1994
Richard Jacobs buys naming rights to Indians new ball park at Gateway for 13.8 million (renamed Jacobs Field)
23 Mar 1995
How To Succeed in Business... opens at R Rodgers NYC for 548 performances
23 Mar 2005
A major explosion at the Texas City Refinery kills 15 workers
23 Mar 2006
The Federal Reserve discontinues publishing M3 money supply
23 Mar 2007
Burnley Tunnel catastrophe occurs in Melbourne Australia
23 Mar 2007
Iranian Navy seize Royal Navy personnel in Iraqi waters
23 Mar 2012
African Union suspends Malis membership following a coup
23 Mar 2013
20 people are killed and 200 are injured by a tornado in Brahmanbaria Bangladesh
23 Mar 1878
English FA Cup Final Kennington Oval London Wanderers beat Royal Engineers 31 Wanderers back-to-back and 5th title overall
23 Mar 1946
8th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Oklahoma State beats North Carolina 43-40 Cowboys back-to-back titles and center Bob Kurland MOP for 2nd straight year
23 Mar 1948
10th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Kentucky beats Baylor 58-42 Wildcats first victory in first title game
23 Mar 1952
NY Rangers blow 6-2 lead lose 7-6 to Chicago Black Hawks Bill Mosienko scores fastest hat trick in NHL history 21 seconds
23 Mar 1963
25th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Loyola-Chicago beats Cincinnati 60-58 (OT) Ramblers first title in first title game
23 Mar 1963
Rolf Hochhuths play Der Stellvertreter (The Representative) premieres in Berlin
23 Mar 1968
30th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship UCLA beats North Carolina 78-55 Bruins back-to-back titles Lew Alcindor tournament Most Outstanding Player for the 2nd of 3 consecutive years
23 Mar 1997
WrestleMania XIII Rosemont Horizon IL Undertaker beats Sycho Sid for WWF Heavyweight title
23 Mar 2013
The US Senate approves its first budget in four years by a margin of 5049
23 Mar 1708
Pretender to the English throne James III attempts to land at Firth of Forth Scotland but is turned away by the British Royal Navy
23 Mar 1881
Gas lamp sets fire to Thtre Municipal opera house in Nice France 70 die and building completely destroyed
23 Mar 1918
Germany begins using long-range gun the Kaiser Wilhelm Geschtz (Emperor William Gun) aka Paris Gun to shell Paris from Crpy-en-Laonnais 75 miles away over several days 303 rounds kill 256 and wound over 600
23 Mar 1923
Frank Silver and Irving Conn rpublish their hit song Yes We Have No Bananas
23 Mar 1945
British Prime Minister Churchill visits Montgomerys headquarter in Straelen
23 Mar 1940
The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Lahore) calling for independent Muslim state(s) is adopted by the All-India Muslim League
23 Mar 1944
Italian resistance group bombs occupying German police at Via Rasella Rome killing 33 and wounding 110 of the 156 man force retaliation kills 335 civilians
23 Mar 1970
Hello Darlin single released by Conway Twitty (Billboard Song of the Year )
23 Mar 1972
NY Yankees agree to continue playing ball in the Bronx
23 Mar 1972
Geoge Harrison and Friends The Concert for Bangladesh concert film directed by Saul Swimmer released in the US
23 Mar 1985
Space Shuttle Discovery moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 51-D mission
23 Mar 1988
Geffen Records releases Chalk Mark In A Rain Storm Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchells 13th studio album
23 Mar 1782
Novel Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos is published by Durand Neveu
23 Mar 1840
John William Draper takes 1st successful photo in US of the Moon (daguerreotype) in New York City
23 Mar 1856
18-year-old English chemist William Perkin accidentally produces the first synthetic aniline dye mauveine (purple) during his Easter holiday [1]
23 Mar 1923
Frank Silver and Irving Conn publish their hit song Yes We Have No Bananas
23 Mar 1960
NASAs Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit
23 Mar 1980
Nicaraguan National Literary Crusade begins crusade teachers swear in plazas across the country to exterminate ignorance in just five months (will successfully reduce illiteracy from 50% to 12%) [1]
23 Mar 1995
Revival of Frank Loessers musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC runs for 548 performances
23 Mar 2005
Major explosion and fire at the BPs Texas City Refinery kills 15 workers in Texas City Texas
23 Mar 1752
Canadas first newspaper Halifax Gazette published in Halifax by John Bushell [1]
23 Mar 1794
American inventor Josiah Pierson patents a cold-header (rivet) machine
23 Mar 1919
Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic designated as the first autonomous republic of Soviet Russia
23 Mar 1949
Sidney Kingsleys play Detective Story premieres in NYC
23 Mar 1950
Actress Frances Farmer is released from Western State Hospital
23 Mar 1994
Green Ramp disaster Mid-air collision of USAF F-16 fighter jet and USAF C-130 Hercules transport kills 24 and injures over 100 US Army paratroopers on the ground preparing for training at Pope AFB in Cumberland County North Carolina
23 Mar 2003
ICC Mens Cricket ODI World Cup Wanderers Stadium Johannesburg South Africa Australia retain trophy with 125 run win over India Player of the Match Ricky Ponting (AUS) 140 no (121)
23 Mar 2013
Chris Sharma becomes the second person to climb a 9b (5.15c) route with his ascent of La Dura Dura in Oliana Spain
23 Mar 2013
Walt Disney Company launches premium cable Disney Junior channel with 24-hour programming for the 2-7 year old audience
23 Mar 2018
A Sahara sandstorm turns snow in Sochi Russia orange in one of the largest-ever transfers of desert sand
23 Mar 2018
Perus Congress swears in Vice-President Martn Vizcarra as the new President after Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned amid corruption scandal
23 Mar 2019
More than 1 million march to demand a new EU referendum in London England
23 Mar 2019
More than 130 Fulani people killed in Ogossagou Mali in attack by Dogon hunters prompting government ban on the hunters
23 Mar 2019
Syrian Democratic Forces announce that the last Islamic State territory has been retaken raising flags in Baghuz Syria and ending the five-year Islamic State caliphate
23 Mar 2020
African American Daniel Prude dies after being physically retrained by police in Rochester New York including having a hood put over his head
23 Mar 2020
COVID-19 lockdowns imposed in South Africa and the United Kingdom while other European nations extend and strengthen their lockdowns
23 Mar 2020
New York confirmed as new center of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US with 20875 cases (5707 in the last day) and 157 deaths
23 Mar 2020
WHO says the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating 1st 100000 cases took 67 days 2nd 100000 cases 11 days 3rd 100000 cases 4 days
23 Mar 2021
Cargo ship Ever Given gets stuck in the Suez Canal Egypt a 400m megaship it completely blocks the shipping canal
23 Mar 2022
Abel Prize mathematics Nobel equivalent awarded to American Dennis Sullivan for his work on topography [1]
23 Mar 1490
First dated edition of Maimonides Mishneh Torah is published a code of Jewish religious law
23 Mar 1708
James Francis Edward Stuart Prince of Wales attempts to land at Firth of Forth Scotland but is turned away by the British Royal Navy
23 Mar 1839
First recorded use of OK [oll korrect] appears in the Boston Morning Post
23 Mar 1940
First radio broadcast of Truth or Consequences on CBS
23 Mar 1962
Nawab of Pataudi captains the Indian cricket team against the West Indies at the age of 21 years and 77 days
23 Mar 1965
NASA launches Gemini 3 1st US 2-man space flight (Gus Grissom & Young)
23 Mar 2019
Syrian Democratic Forces announce that the last Islamic State territory has been retaken raising flags in Baghuz Syria and ending the five-year Islamic State caliphate
23 Mar 1648
Treaty of Concorida Dutch and French agree to divide St Maarten in the Leeward Islands [1]
23 Mar 1880
Flour rolling mill patent is issued to John Stevens of Wisconsin
23 Mar 1948
British RAF pilot John Cunningham (30) sets world altitude record of 59430 feet (18114 metres) flying a de Haviland Vampire fighter jet
23 Mar 1965
NASA launches Gemini 3 the first US two-man space flight with Gus Grissom and John Young
23 Mar 1987
Soap opera The Bold and The Beautiful premieres on CBS
23 Mar 2009
2nd World Baseball Classic Japan repeats as champion of the international tournament with a 5-3 10-inning win over South Korea at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles California
23 Mar 2022
After 114 consecutive weeks as world 1 female tennis player 25-year-old Australian Ash Barty makes shock retirement announcement cites contentment with all she achieved in the sport
23 Mar 2022
Brian Houston Australian founder of megachurch Hillsong resigns after an internal investigation finds he breached their code of conduct with two women
23 Mar 2023
Canada records record population growth (2.7%) adding 1 million people in 2022 mostly through immigration [1]
23 Mar 2023
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew questioned for over four hours by a US congressional hearing over its Chinese security risks [1]
23 Mar 2023
Utah is the first state to limit social media for minors including an overnight curfew and parental consents [1]