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1026Mar 23Koenraad II (Conrad II) crowned himself king of Italy.
1237Mar 23Jan of Brienne, King of Jerusalem, Emperor of Constantinople, died.
1330Mar 23Riga surrendered to the Livonian Order.
1490Mar 231st dated edition of Maimonides “Mishna Torah” was published.
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.
1752Mar 23Pope Stephen II was elected to succeed Zacharias. He died 2 days later.
1769Mar 23William Smith, geologist (Strata Identified by Organized Fossils), was born.
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.
1808Mar 23Napoleon’s brother Joseph took the throne of Spain.
1835Mar 23Charles Darwin reached Los Arenales in the Andes.
1839Mar 231st recorded use of “OK” [oll korrect] was in Boston’s Morning Post.
1848Mar 23Hungary proclaimed its independence of Austria.
1857Mar 23Elisha Otis installed the first modern passenger elevator in the 5-story Haughwout and Co. building at 488 Broadway in New York City.
1861Mar 23London’s 1st tramcars, designed by Mr. Train of New York, began operating.
1864Mar 23Encounter at Camden, AR.
1867Mar 23Congress passed a 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Johnson’s veto.
1880Mar 23John Stevens of Neenah, Wis., patented the grain crushing mill. This mill allowed flour production to increase by 70 percent.
1881Mar 23Gas lamp set fire to Nice, France, opera house and 70 died.
1887Mar 23Juan Gris, cubist painter (Still Life Before an Open Window), was born in Spain.
1889Mar 23President Harrison opened Oklahoma for white colonization.
1896Mar 23Umberto Giordano’s opera “Andrea Chénier” premiered in Milan.
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.
1903Mar 23The Wright brothers obtained an airplane patent.
1909Mar 23British Lt. Shackleton found the magnetic South Pole.
1910Mar 231st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st US auto speedway).
1912Mar 23Werner von Braun, rocket expert (I Aim at the Stars), was born in  Wirsitz, Germany. He led the development of the V-2 rocket during World War II.
1913Mar 23A strong tornado swept through Omaha, Neb., on Easter Sunday leaving over 100 fatalities and millions of dollars in damage.
1917Mar 23A 4 day series of tornadoes killed 211 in Midwest US.
1918Mar 23Alick Wickham dove 200′ into Australia’s Yarra River.
1919Mar 23Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy.
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.
1932Mar 23The executive committee of the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) ruled to exclude blacks from appearing at Constitution Hall.
1933Mar 23Kroll Opera in Berlin opened.
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.
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.
1945Mar 23Premier Winston Churchill visited Montgomery’s headquarter in Straelen.
1945Mar 23Largest operation in Pacific war: 1,500 US Navy ships bombed Okinawa.
1948Mar 23John Cunningham set a world altitude record at 54,492′ (18,133 meters).
1949Mar 23Israel signed a ceasefire agreement with Lebanon.
1950Mar 23“Great to Be Alive” opened at Winter Garden Theater in NYC for 52 performances.
1951Mar 23U.S. paratroopers descended from flying boxcars in a surprise attack in Korea.
1956Mar 23Soviet students protested the campaign to desanctify Stalin.
1960Mar 23Explorer 8 failed to reach Earth orbit.
1962Mar 23William DeWitt bought the Cincinnati Reds for $4,625,000.
1964Mar 23Peter Lorre (59), actor (Casino Royale), died.
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.
   
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 been challenged in court.
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.
1979Mar 23Paul McCartney and Wings released “Goodnight Tonight.”
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.
   
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.
1986Mar 23In the 6th Golden Raspberry Awards the film “Rambo: First Blood Part II” won.
1992Mar 23The president of the U.N. Security Council announced that Libya had offered to surrender two men suspected in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 to the Arab League. Libya reversed itself two days later; however, the suspects surrendered for trial seven years later. One was subsequently convicted, the other found innocent.
1994Mar 23Wayne Gretzky broke Gordie Howe’s National Hockey League career record with his 802nd goal.
1997Mar 23“Mandy Patinkin in Concert” closed at Lyceum Theater NYC.
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 23Newspaper columnist Rowland Evans died in Washington D.C. at age 79.
2002Mar 23The History Channel hosted it’s 4th annual Harry Awards, named after Herodotus, for the best historical film of 2001.
2003Mar 23Michael Moore criticized Pres. Bush and the US-led war in Iraq during his acceptance speech at the Academy Awards, drawing a partial standing ovation and some jeers from Hollywood’s elite.
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 23Alaska’s Mount Redoubt volcano erupted five times overnight, sending an ash plume more than 9 miles into the air in the volcano’s first emissions in nearly 20 years.
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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