About March 23
March 23, 2025 is the 82nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 283 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 331 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 23
- 1708 –James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth.
- 1775 –American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – “Give me Liberty, or give me Death!” – at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia.
- 1848 –The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
- 1857 –Elisha Otis’s first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
- 1868 –The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
- 1889 –The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India.
- 1905 –Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete’s union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
- 1908 –American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.
- 1933 –The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
- 1939 –The Hungarian air force attacks the headquarters of Slovak air force in the city of Spišská Nová Ves, kills 13 people and began the Slovak–Hungarian War.
- 1940 –The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.
- 1956 –Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan)
- 1965 –NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States’ first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
- 1978 –The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
- 1991 –The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.
- 1994 –Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes in Siberia when the pilot’s fifteen-year old son accidentally disengages the autopilot, killing all 75 people on board.
- 1994 –At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.
- 1996 –Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
- 2003 –In Nasiriyah, Iraq, 11 soldiers of the 507th Maintenance Company as well as 18 U.S. Marines are killed during the first major conflict of Operation Iraqi Freedom. 654 Iraqi combatants are also killed.
- 2005 –Texas City Refinery explosion: During a test on a distillation tower liquid waste builds up and flows out of a blowout tower. Waste fumes ignite and explode killing 15 workers.
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