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752CEMar 23Pope Stephen II was elected to succeed Pope Zacharias; however, Stephen died 4 days later.
1026Mar 23Koenraad II (Conrad II) crowned himself king of Italy.
1066Mar 23The 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet. Haley’s Comet was seen and soon after depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry. The 230-foot tapestry was created by craftsmen working for a Norman Bishop to depict the 1066 Norman invasion. In 2005 Andrew Bridgeford authored “1066: The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry.”
1153Mar 23The first Treaty of Constance was signed between Frederick I “Barbarossa” and Pope Eugene III. By the terms of the treaty, the Emperor was to prevent any action by Manuel I Komnenos to reestablish the Byzantine Empire on Italian soil and to assist the pope against his enemies in revolt in Rome.
1169Mar 23Shirkuh,  Kurd General, vizier of Cairo, Saladin’s uncle, died.
1237Mar 23Jan of Brienne, King of Jerusalem, Emperor of Constantinople, died.
1322Mar 23In York, England, Roger de Clifford was hanged and left hanging in a cage outside a tower (Clifford’s Tower) for a year and a day. He had been involved in a rebellion against King Edward II’s favorite Huge Lord de Despencer, and ultimately against the King himself.
1330Mar 23Riga surrendered to the Livonian Order.
1369Mar 23Pedro the Cruel, King and tyrant of Castile and Leon, was murdered. Enrique, the illegitimate son of Alfonso XI of Castile, killed his half brother Pedro I in the Castilian civil war and became King Enrique I “the Bastard” of Castile.
1490Mar 231st dated edition of Maimonides “Mishna Torah” was published.
1555Mar 23Julius III (67), born as Giovanni M. del Monte, Pope (1550-55), died. He was succeeded by Marcellus II and then by Paul IV.
1657Mar 23France and England formed an alliance against Spain.
1568Mar 23Treaty of Longjumeau: French Huguenots went on strike.
1579Mar 23Friesland joined the Union of Utrecht.
1593Mar 23English Congressionalist Henry Barrow was accused of slander.
1599Mar 23Thomas Selle, composer, was born.
1630Mar 23French troops occupied Pinerolo, Piedmont.
1638Mar 23Frederik Ruysch, Dutch anatomist, was born.
1699Mar 23John Bartram, naturalist, explorer, father of American botany, was born.
1708Mar 23English pretender to the throne James III landed at Firth of Forth.
1736Mar 23Iman Willem Falck, Dutch Governor of Ceylon (1765-83), was born.
1743Mar 23George Frideric Handel’s oratorio “Messiah” had its London premiere. During the “Hallelujah Chorus,” Britain’s King George II, who was in attendance, stood up ”” followed by the entire audience.
1749Mar 23Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen, composer, was born.
1750Mar 23Johannes Matthias Sperger, composer, was born.
1752Mar 23Pope Stephen II was elected to succeed Zacharias. He died 2 days later.
1761Mar 23John W. de Winter, Dutch Vice-Admiral (Battle at Kamperduin), was born.
1769Mar 23William Smith, geologist (Strata Identified by Organized Fossils), was born.
1775Mar 23In a speech to the Virginia Provincial Convention, assembled at Henrico Church in Richmond, American revolutionary Patrick Henry made his famous plea for independence from Britain, saying, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
1791Mar 23Etta Palm, a Dutch champion of woman’s rights, set up a group of women’s clubs called the Confederation of the Friends of Truth.
1792Mar 23Franz Joseph Haydn’s “Symphony No. 94 in G Major,” also known as the “Surprise Symphony,” was performed publicly for the first time, in London.
1794Mar 23Lieutenant-General Tadeusz Kosciusko returned to Poland.
1806Mar 23Explorers Lewis and Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, left Fort Clatsop, Oregon, and began their journey back East.
1808Mar 23Napoleon’s brother Joseph took the throne of Spain.
1823Mar 23Schuyler Colfax, (R) 17th US Vice President (1869-73), was born.
1835Mar 23Charles Darwin reached Los Arenales in the Andes.
1836Mar 23Coin Press was invented by Franklin Beale.
1839Mar 231st recorded use of “OK” [oll korrect] was in Boston’s Morning Post.
1840Mar 23Draper took 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerreotype).
1842Mar 23Stendhal [Marie-Henri Beyle], French author (b.1783), died at 59.
1848Mar 23Hungary proclaimed its independence of Austria.
1849Mar 23Battle of Novara (King Charles Albert of Sardinia vs. Italian republic). Austria’s Gen. Radetzky (83) crushed the Piedmontese forces. Charles Albert abdicated and was succeeded by his son, Victor Emmanuel II, who reigned until 1861.
1857Mar 23Elisha Otis installed the first modern passenger elevator in the 5-story Haughwout and Co. building at 488 Broadway in New York City.
1858Mar 23Eleazer A. Gardner of Philadelphia patented the cable street car, which ran on overhead cables.
1861Mar 23London’s 1st tramcars, designed by Mr. Train of New York, began operating.
1862Mar 23The Battle of Kernstown, Va., began. Winchester, Va., was another embattled town. Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson faced his only defeat at the Battle of Kernstown, Va., as he began his Valley Campaign. Union intelligence officers learned that Isabella Boyd had been spying on their army.
1864Mar 23Encounter at Camden, AR.
1865Mar 23General Sherman and Cox’s troops reached Goldsboro, NC.
1867Mar 23Charles Deas (b.1818), American painter, died in NYC. He was noted for his oil paintings of Native Americans and fur trappers of the mid-19th century. At age 29, he went insane and lived out the rest of his life in mental institutions.
1868Mar 23Gov. Henry Haight signed an act that created the Univ. of California and wed the insolvent College of California to the state with the promised backing of 150,000 acres of federal land. The line “Westward the course of empire takes its way” from a 1752 poem by Irish Bishop Berkeley had earlier inspired the founders of Berkeley, Ca., to name their city and university after Berkeley.
1880Mar 23John Stevens of Neenah, Wis., patented the grain crushing mill. This mill allowed flour production to increase by 70 percent.
1881Mar 23Hermann Staudinger, chemist, plastics researcher (Nobel ’53), was born in Germany.
1887Mar 23Felix Felixovitch Yussupov (Youssoupoff), Russian prince, murderer of Rasputin, was born.
1888Mar 23Morrison R. Waite (b.1816), US Supreme Court Chief Justice (1874-1888), died after serving for 14 years. He interpreted constitutional amendments after the Civil War.
1889Mar 23President Harrison opened Oklahoma for white colonization.
1896Mar 23Umberto Giordano’s opera “Andrea Chénier” premiered in Milan.
1898Mar 23Georgios Grivas, Greek General, opposition leader on Cyprus, was born.
1900Mar 23Erich Fromm (d.1980), German-American psychologist (Sane Society), was born in Frankfurt, Germany. He wrote “The Sane Society.” “Modern man thinks he loses something, time, when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.”
1901Mar 23A group of U.S. Army soldier led by Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston captured Emilio Aguinaldo, the leader of the Philippine Insurrection of 1899.
1902Mar 23Kálmán Tisza (71), premier of Hungary (1875-90), died.
1903Mar 23The Wright brothers obtained an airplane patent.
1907Mar 23Daniele Bovet, Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist, was born.
1908Mar 23Joan Crawford, American actress, was born. She is best known for her role in Mildred Pierce.
1909Mar 23Theodore Roosevelt began an African safari sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
1910Mar 23Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (Living, Rashomon, The Seven Samurai), was born in Tokyo, Japan.
1912Mar 23Dixie Cup was invented.
1913Mar 23A strong tornado swept through Omaha, Neb., on Easter Sunday leaving over 100 fatalities and millions of dollars in damage.
1915Mar 23Zion Mule Corp. formed.
1917Mar 23A 4 day series of tornadoes killed 211 in Midwest US.
1918Mar 23Alick Wickham dove 200′ into Australia’s Yarra River.
1919Mar 23Moscow’s Politburo-Central Committee formed.
1920Mar 23Britain denounced the U.S. because of their delay in joining the League of Nations.
1921Mar 23Arthur G. Hamilton set a new parachute record, safely jumping 24,400 feet.
1922Mar 231st airplane landed at the US Capitol in Washington DC.
1923Mar 23Frank Silver and Irving Conn released “Yes, We Have No Bananas.”
1925Mar 23Aleksei Kuropatkin (76), Russian General, minister of War, died.
1927Mar 23Captain Hawthorne Gray set a new balloon record soaring to 28,510 feet.
Mar 23Sir Roger Bannister, the first man to run the mile in less than four minutes (May 6, 1954), was born in England.
1932Mar 23Britain warned Ireland that the loyalty oath was mandatory.
1933Mar 23Kroll Opera in Berlin opened.
1935Mar 23France, Italy and Britain agreed to present a unified front in response to Germany.
1936Mar 23Italy, Austria and Hungary signed Pact of Rome.
1937Mar 23Los Angeles Railway Co. started using PCC streetcars. PCC’s are streetcars that were originally designed under the direction of the Electric Railway Presidents’ Conference Committee, in an attempt by 25 U.S. and Canadian transit companies to develop a standardized streetcar whose many improvements would help to reverse the decline in transit use that had begun in the 1920’s. The committee’s efforts began in late 1929, and the first cars were put into service in New York in October 1936.
1939Mar 23At San Quentin prison in northern California 41 prisoners were tortured and beaten by guards. On Nov 10 guard boss William G. Lewis testified that he had loaded a rubber hose used to beat convicts with BB shot and detailed his regiment of punishments.
1940Mar 231st radio broadcast of “Truth or Consequences” on CBS.
1942Mar 23During World War II the US government began moving the first of some 112,000 Japanese-Americans from their West Coast homes to detention centers.
1943Mar 23Germans counter attacked US lines in Tunisia.
1944Mar 23Nicholas Alkemade fell 5,500 meter without a parachute and lived. 1945        Mar 23, Premier Winston Churchill visited Montgomery’s headquarter in Straelen.
1946Mar 23W. Averell Harriman was chosen as the U.S. Ambassador to Britain.
1948Mar 23John Cunningham set a world altitude record at 54,492′ (18,133 meters).
1949Mar 23Sidney Kingsley’s “Detective Story” premiered in NYC.
1950Mar 23At the Academy Awards, “All the King’s Men” won best picture of 1949; its star, Broderick Crawford, won best actor. Olivia de Havilland won best actress for “The Heiress.”
1951Mar 23U.S. paratroopers descended from flying boxcars in a surprise attack in Korea.
1953Mar 23Raoul Dufy, French fauve painter, died.
1956Mar 23Soviet students protested the campaign to desanctify Stalin.
1957Mar 23US army sold its last homing pigeons.
1960Mar 23Explorer 8 failed to reach Earth orbit.
1962Mar 23William DeWitt bought the Cincinnati Reds for $4,625,000.
1964Mar 23The UNCTAD 1 world conference opened in Geneva.
1965Mar 23Police in Casablanca, Morocco, cracked down on students and workers campaigning for social justice and about 100 were killed. In the 1970s the “March 23 movement” for social rights was named for this day.
1966Mar 23The 1st official meeting after 400 years of Catholic and Anglican Church.
1967Mar 23Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. called the Vietnam War the biggest obstacle to the civil rights movement.
1968Mar 23Reverend Walter Fauntroy became the 1st non-voting congressional delegate from Washington DC, since Reconstruction.
1969Mar 23The teenage crusade Rally for Decency in Miami drew some 30,000. Teenagers organized the rally after Jim Morrison (24), the lead singer of The Doors rock group, was charged with indecent exposure during a concert in Miami on March 1.
1970Mar 23Mafia “Boss” Carlo Gambino was arrested for plotting to steal $3 million.
1971Mar 23The US Congress proposed the 26th Amendment lowering the voting age from 21 to 18. It was ratified on July 1, 1971. A similar law in 1970 had beenar law in 1970 had been challenged in court.
1972Mar 23Pres. Nixon discussed his orders to undermine Chilean democracy after the leak of corporate papers revealing collaboration between ITT and the CIA to rollback the election of socialist leader Salvador Allende.
1973Mar 23US performed a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1976Mar 23The  International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted in 1948, went into effect  three months after the 35th nation ratified it.
1978Mar 23The US performed nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1979Mar 23Paul McCartney and Wings released “Goodnight Tonight.”
1980Mar 23The deposed Shah of Iran arrived in Egypt.
1981Mar 23The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls seek abortions. U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law making statutory rape a crime for men but not women.
1982Mar 23Gen’l. Efrain Rios Montt seized power from Pres. Lucas Garcia. Under his 17-month rule the army burned Indian villages and killed thousands of suspected leftists. Montt established the Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG).
1983Mar 23Dr. Barney Clark (62), recipient of a permanent artificial heart, died at the University of Utah Medical Center after 112 days with the device.
1985Mar 23Joshua Silver, Oxford physicist, began contemplating the development of  self adjusting eyeglasses. By 2009 some 30,000 of Silver’s specs had been distributed to the poor in 15 countries; his eventual target is 100 million pairs.
1986Mar 23In the 6th Golden Raspberry Awards the film “Rambo: First Blood Part II” won.
1987Mar 23The American soap opera “Bold and Beautiful” premiered.
1988Mar 23President Reagan announced he would visit the Soviet Union for the first time, from May 29 until June 2, for his fourth summit meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
1989Mar 23Fawn Hall, former secretary to onetime National Security Council aide Oliver North, completed two days of testimony at North’s Iran-Contra trial.
1990Mar 23Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood was sentenced by a judge in Anchorage, Alaska, to help clean up Prince William Sound and pay $50,000 in restitution for his role in the 1989 oil spill.
1991Mar 23In Tennessee 20 tornadoes killed 5 people.
1992Mar 23Friedrich A. von Hayek (92), British economist, Nobel winner (1974), died. His books included Road to Serfdom (1944) and “The Constitution of Liberty” (1960). In 2004 Bruce Caldwell authored “Hayek’s Challenge: An Intellectual biography of F.A. Hayek.”
1993Mar 23In his first formal news conference since taking office, President Clinton suggested restricting the duty assignment of homosexuals in the military as a way of allowing openly gay personnel; however, the idea was quickly abandoned.
1994Mar 23Wayne Gretzky broke Gordie Howe’s National Hockey League career record with his 802nd goal.
1995Mar 23“How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” opened at the Roy Rodgers NYC for 548 performances.
1996Mar 23Taiwan held its first direct presidential elections; incumbent Lee Teng-hui was the landslide victory.
1997Mar 23“Mandy Patinkin in Concert” closed at Lyceum Theater NYC.
1998Mar 23Pres. Clinton visited Ghana, the first nation where Peace Corps volunteers were sent. He hailed “the new face of Africa” as he opened a historic six-nation.
1999Mar 23The US Senate voted 58-41 to support US participation in a NATO bombing of Serbia.
2000Mar 23President Clinton visited the western Indian village of Nayla.
2001Mar 23It was reported that the Bush administration had removed the CIA as a broker between Israeli and Palestinian security services.
2002Mar 23The History Channel hosted it’s 4th annual Harry Awards, named after Herodotus, for the best historical film of 2001.
2003Mar 23In the 75th annual Academy Awards “Chicago” won for Best Picture, Roman Polanski for best director (The Pianist), Adrien Brody for best actor (The Pianist), Nicole Kidman for best actress (The Hours), Chris Cooper for best-supporting actor (Adaptation), and Catherine Zeta-Jones for best supporting actress (Chicago).
2004Mar 23The Bush administration reported that the Medicare Trust Fund would run out of money in 2019, 7 years earlier that projected in 2003.
2005Mar 23A federal appeals court refused to reinsert Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube and the Florida Legislature decided not to intervene in the epic struggle over the brain-damaged woman; Schiavo’s parents then filed a request with the Supreme Court.
2006Mar 23The US Federal Reserve ceased publication of the M3 monetary aggregate.
2007Mar 23The US House voted for the first time to clamp a cutoff deadline on the Iraq war, agreeing by a thin margin to pull combat troops out by next year and pushing the new Democratic-led Congress ever closer to a showdown with President Bush.
2008Mar 23It was reported that 1,195 migrating bison had been culled in Montana after leaving Yellowstone in search of food. The culling was expected to continue through April.
2009Mar 23The Obama administration took a fresh shot at ending a national paralysis in lending, teaming up with investors to buy bad bank assets and ease credit for hard-pressed consumers and businesses. The DJIA responded with a gain 497.48 to close at 7775.86.
2010Mar 23Talks between US President Barack Obama and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu failed to produce signs they had ended a dispute which Netanyahu said could block the Middle East peace process for a year.
2011Mar 23President Barack Obama left El Salvador earlier than scheduled, cutting short a Central American tour dominated by the US-led military action in Libya.
2012Mar 23The Obama administration said it would resume military aid to Egypt.
2013Mar 23The US Pentagon said it has reached an agreement to transfer the Parwan Detention Facility to Afghan control.
Source: Timelines of History 

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