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

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

1949  On this day in history the Cars vocalist Ric Ocasek born this day.   

1949  On March - 23 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  On this day in history sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greeks government   

1950  UN World Meteorological Organization established on this day in history.   

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

1950  On this day in history douglas Carr, England cricket leg-spinner (Test 1909), dies   

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

1951  On March - 23 wages in France increase 11%   

1952  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 on this day in history.   

1952  Klaas Schilder, Dutch vicar/theologist/antifascist, dies at 61 on March - 23.   

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

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

1956  On this day in history sudan becomes independent   

1957  US army sells last homing pigeons on this day in history.   

1957  On this day in history l Patrick Abercrombie, English architect, dies at 77   

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

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

1960  Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit on this day in history.   

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

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  JFK visits San Francisco on March - 23.   

1962  Josephus RH van Schaik, lawyer/vice-premier of Neth, dies at 80 on March - 23.   

1963  On March - 23 davey Moore, dies seconds after KOed in feather-weight championship   

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 March - 23 peter Lorre, actor (Casino Royale), dies at 59   

1965  On this day in history 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 March - 23 birth of margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI of England (d. 1482)   

1599  Thomas Selle, composer was born on March - 23.   

1638  Frederik Ruysch, Dutch anatomist was born on this day in history.   

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

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

1723  On this day in history birth of agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, King of Iran (d. 1771)   

1732  Marie Adélaïde of France, daughter of Louis XV (d. 1800) was born on March - 23.   

1736  On March - 23 birth of iman Willem Falck, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1765-83)   

1103  Death of Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1058) on March - 23.   

1169  Shirkuh, Kurd general/vizier of Cairo/Saladin's uncle, dies on this day in history.   

1237  Jan of Brienne, King of Jerusalem/Emperor of Constantinople, dies on this day in history.   

1361  On March - 23 death of henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. c.1310)   

1369  On this day in history death of pedro, the Cruel, King/tyrant of Castile & Leon, murdered   

1548  On this day in history death of itagaki Nobukata, retainer of Takeda Shingen   

1555  Julius III, [Giovanni M del Monte], Pope (1550-55), dies at 67 on this day in history.   

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