About March 23
March 23, 2024 is the 83rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 283 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 312 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.
- 1801 –Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael’s Castle.
- 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.
- 1879 –War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.
- 1889 –The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India.
- 1919 –In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
- 1942 –World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands.
- 1962 –Ship NS, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace initiative.
- 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.
- 1982 –Guatemala’s government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.
- 1989 –Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce their discovery of cold fusion at the University of Utah.
- 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 –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.
- 1994 –At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.
- 1999 –Gunmen assassinate Paraguay’s Vice President Luis María Argaña.
- 2001 –The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
- 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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