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Birthday March 23, 1699 John Bartram, naturalist, explorer, botanist |
Birthday March 23, 1749 Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician, astronomer, physicist |
Birthday March 23, 1823 Schuyler Colfax, (R), 17th VP (1869-73) |
Birthday March 23, 1857 Fannie Farmer |
Birthday March 23, 1876 Sir Muirhead Bone, etcher, engraver |
Birthday March 23, 1881 Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist, dramatist (Nobel 1937) |
Birthday March 23, 1907 Daniel Bovet, Swiss pharmacologist (Nobel 1957) |
Birthday March 23, 1908 Joan Crawford, No wire hangers, ever! (Mildred Pierce) |
Birthday March 23, 1910 Akira Kurosawa, film director |
Birthday March 23, 1912 Wernher von Braun, Wirsitz, Germany, rocket expert |
Birthday March 23, 1922 Marty Allen, Comedian (Allen & Rossi) |
Birthday March 23, 1923 Arnie Weinmeister, AAFC, NFL def tackle (NY Yankees, Giants) |
Birthday March 23, 1926 Martha Wright, Seattle Wash |
Birthday March 23, 1937 Craig Breedlove, land-speed record holder, born |
Birthday March 23, 1952 Teofilo Stevenson, Cuba, Olympic boxer |
Birthday March 23, 1953 Chaka Khan, Great Lakes Ill rocker |
Birthday March 23, 1954 Moses Malone, Basketball player |
History March 23, 1743 George Frideric Handel's oratorio `Messiah' London premiere |
History March 23, 1752 Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias - died 2 days later |
History March 23, 1775 Patrick Henry voices American opposition to British policy |
History March 23, 1775 Patrick Henry asks for liberty or death |
History March 23, 1806 Lewis & Clark reached Pacific coast |
History March 23, 1806 Lewis and Clark depart Fort Clatsop |
History March 23, 1840 1st photo of moon taken |
History March 23, 1862 Jackson is defeated at Kernstown |
History March 23, 1913 Tornadoes devastate Nebraska |
History March 23, 1918 Paris hit by shells from new German gun |
History March 23, 1919 Mussolini founds the Fascist party |
History March 23, 1919 Benito Mussolini founded Fascist movement in Milan Italy |
History March 23, 1925 Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution |
History March 23, 1929 1st telephone installed in White House |
History March 23, 1933 German Reichstag granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers |
History March 23, 1937 LA Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars |
History March 23, 1940 All-India-Muslim league calls for a Muslim Homeland |
History March 23, 1942 US began moving Japanese-Americans to detention centers |
History March 23, 1944 Germans slaughter Italian civilians |
History March 23, 1944 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5 -500 m without a parachute & lives |
History March 23, 1950 UN World Meteorological Org established |
History March 23, 1956 Pakistan became independent within British Commonwealth |
History March 23, 1961 U.S. plane shot down over Laos |
History March 23, 1962 Jackie Kennedy receives horse from governor of Pakistan |
History March 23, 1962 JFK visits SF |
History March 23, 1965 Gemini 3 launched - 1st US 2-man space flight |
History March 23, 1969 Jim Morrison prompts a Rally for Decency |
History March 23, 1970 Prince Sihanouk issues a call for arms |
History March 23, 1976 Intl Bill of Rights goes into effect - 35 nations ratify |
History March 23, 1979 Two men sentenced in murder of former Chilean diplomat |
History March 23, 1982 Isle's Mike Bossy's 20th career hat trick - 4 goals |
History March 23, 1983 1st Artificial heart recipient Dr Barney Clark died after 112 days |
History March 23, 1983 Artificial-heart patient dies |
History March 23, 1983 Reagan calls for new antimissile technology |
History March 23, 1994 Wayne Gretzky scores number 802 |
History March 23, 1994 Leading Mexican presidential candidate assassinated |
History March 23, 1998 James Cameron's Titanic wins 11 Academy Awards |
History March 23, 1999 Thomas Harris delivers Hannibal manuscript |
History March 23, 2011 Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 |