Historical Events In March - 23

1945  Premier Winston Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen on March - 23.   

1946  On March - 23 8th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats NC 43-40   

1946  On this day in history alexandru Zirra, composer, dies at 62   

1948  John Cunningham sets world altitude record (54,492' (18,133 m)) on March - 23.   

1949  The Cars vocalist Ric Ocasek born this day on March - 23.   

1949  On March - 23 sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story," premieres in NYC   

1950  22nd Academy Awards "All King's Men", Broderick Crawford & Olivia de Havilland win on this day in history.   

1950  On March - 23 sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greeks government   

1950  On this day in history uN World Meteorological Organization established   

1950  "Great to Be Alive" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 perfs on this day in history.   

1950  On March - 23 douglas Carr, England cricket leg-spinner (Test 1909), dies   

1950  On March - 23 22nd Academy Awards: "All King's Men", Broderick Crawford & Olivia de Havilland win   

1951  On March - 23 wages in France increase 11%   

1952  On this day in history 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   

1952  On March - 23 klaas Schilder, Dutch vicar/theologist/antifascist, dies at 61   

1953  Raoul Dufy, painter, Forcalquier, France on March - 23.   

1956  On this day in history pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day)   

1956  On March - 23 sudan becomes independent   

1957  US army sells last homing pigeons on March - 23.   

1957  On March - 23 l Patrick Abercrombie, English architect, dies at 77   

1958  On this day in history first launching of simulated Polaris missile from submerged tactical launcher facility off CA.   

1958  On March - 23 florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist/philosopher, dies at 76   

1960  Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit on March - 23.   

1960  On March - 23 franklin P Adams, columnist (Information Please), dies at 78   

1961  A C Russell, cricketer (10 Tests for England 910 runs), dies on March - 23.   

1962  On this day in history french government uses fighter planes and tanks in attempt to end insurrection by European rightists in Algeria.   

1962  On this day in history jFK visits San Francisco   

1962  On March - 23 josephus RH van Schaik, lawyer/vice-premier of Neth, dies at 80   

1963  Davey Moore, dies seconds after KOed in feather-weight championship on March - 23.   

1964  On March - 23 two Marine helicopter crews of VMO-1 rescued 11 sick, injured and wounded members of a road engineering party that had survived attacks by hostile Indians in the dense jungle of the Amazon basin near Iquitos, Peru.   

1964  On this day in history peter Lorre, actor (Casino Royale), dies at 59   

1965  On March - 23 lCDR John W. Young, USN, Pilot of Gemini 3 completed 3 orbits in 4 hours., 53 minutes at an altitude of 224 km. Recovery was by helicopters from USS Intrepid (CVS-11).   

1965  On March - 23 moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed   

1965  Mae Murray, actress (Bachelor Apartment), dies of heart ailment at 75 on this day in history.   

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1429  On March - 23 birth of margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI of England (d. 1482)   

1599  Thomas Selle, composer was born on this day in history.   

1638  Frederik Ruysch, Dutch anatomist was born on March - 23.   

1645  On this day in history birth of william Kidd, Pirate Legend From Scotland (d. 1701)   

1699  John Bartram, naturalist/explorer, father of American botany was born on March - 23.   

1723  Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, King of Iran (d. 1771) was born on March - 23.   

1732  Marie Adélaïde of France, daughter of Louis XV (d. 1800) was born on this day in history.   

1736  Iman Willem Falck, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1765-83) was born on this day in history.   

1103  On this day in history death of eudes I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1058)   

1169  On this day in history shirkuh, Kurd general/vizier of Cairo/Saladin's uncle, dies   

1237  On this day in history jan of Brienne, King of Jerusalem/Emperor of Constantinople, dies   

1361  Death of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. c.1310) on March - 23.   

1369  On March - 23 death of pedro, the Cruel, King/tyrant of Castile & Leon, murdered   

1548  Death of Itagaki Nobukata, retainer of Takeda Shingen on this day in history.   

1555  Julius III, [Giovanni M del Monte], Pope (1550-55), dies at 67 on March - 23.   

1559  On this day in history death of emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia (killed in battle) (b. 1521/1522)