Historical Events In March - 23

1945  On March - 23 premier Winston Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen   

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

1946  Alexandru Zirra, composer, dies at 62 on March - 23.   

1948  On March - 23 john Cunningham sets world altitude record (54,492' (18,133 m))   

1949  On March - 23 the Cars vocalist Ric Ocasek born this day.   

1949  On this day in history sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story," premieres in NYC   

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

1950  Sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greeks government on March - 23.   

1950  UN World Meteorological Organization established on March - 23.   

1950  On March - 23 "Great to Be Alive" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 perfs   

1950  Douglas Carr, England cricket leg-spinner (Test 1909), dies on March - 23.   

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

1951  Wages in France increase 11% on this day in history.   

1952  On March - 23 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  Klaas Schilder, Dutch vicar/theologist/antifascist, dies at 61 on this day in history.   

1953  On March - 23 raoul Dufy, painter, Forcalquier, France   

1956  On March - 23 pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day)   

1956  Sudan becomes independent on March - 23.   

1957  On March - 23 uS army sells last homing pigeons   

1957  L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

1958  On March - 23 first launching of simulated Polaris missile from submerged tactical launcher facility off CA.   

1958  Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist/philosopher, dies at 76 on March - 23.   

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

1960  Franklin P Adams, columnist (Information Please), dies at 78 on this day in history.   

1961  On this day in history a C Russell, cricketer (10 Tests for England 910 runs), dies   

1962  On March - 23 french government uses fighter planes and tanks in attempt to end insurrection by European rightists in Algeria.   

1962  On March - 23 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  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 on this day in history.   

1964  Peter Lorre, actor (Casino Royale), dies at 59 on March - 23.   

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 this day in history moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed   

1965  On March - 23 mae Murray, actress (Bachelor Apartment), dies of heart ailment at 75   

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1429  On this day in history 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  On this day in history birth of frederik Ruysch, Dutch anatomist   

1645  William Kidd, Pirate Legend From Scotland (d. 1701) was born on this day in history.   

1699  On March - 23 birth of john Bartram, naturalist/explorer, father of American botany   

1723  Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, King of Iran (d. 1771) was born on this day in history.   

1732  On this day in history birth of marie Adélaïde of France, daughter of Louis XV (d. 1800)   

1736  Iman Willem Falck, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1765-83) was born on March - 23.   

1103  Death of Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1058) on this day in history.   

1169  On March - 23 shirkuh, Kurd general/vizier of Cairo/Saladin's uncle, dies   

1237  On March - 23 jan of Brienne, King of Jerusalem/Emperor of Constantinople, dies   

1361  On this day in history death of henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. c.1310)   

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 March - 23.   

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

1559  Death of Emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia (killed in battle) (b. 1521/1522) on this day in history.