About March 23
March 23, 2023 is the 82nd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 283 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 324 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 23
- 1400 –The Tran Dynasty of Vietnam is deposed after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule by Ho Quy Ly, a court official.
- 1775 –American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – “Give me Liberty, or give me Death!” – at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia.
- 1821 –Greek War of Independence: Battle and fall of city of Kalamata.
- 1862 –The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign. Though a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond.
- 1868 –The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
- 1919 –In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
- 1931 –Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for murder during the Indian struggle for independence.
- 1935 –Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
- 1942 –World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands.
- 1956 –Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan)
- 1978 –The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
- 1980 –Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.
- 1982 –Guatemala’s government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.
- 1983 –Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
- 1989 –Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce their discovery of cold fusion at the University of Utah.
- 1994 –A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.
- 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.
- 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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