Page 7: Historical Events In March - 23

1945  Premier Winston Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen on March - 23.   

1946  8th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats NC 43-40 on this day in history.   

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

1948  John Cunningham sets world altitude record (54,492' (18,133 m)) on March - 23.   

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

1949  Sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story," premieres in NYC on this day in history.   

1950  On this day in history 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 March - 23.   

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

1950  On March - 23 douglas Carr, England cricket leg-spinner (Test 1909), dies   

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

1951  Wages in France increase 11% on March - 23.   

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 March - 23.   

1952  On March - 23 klaas Schilder, Dutch vicar/theologist/antifascist, dies at 61   

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

1956  On this day in history 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  L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

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

1958  On March - 23 florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist/philosopher, dies at 76   

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  A C Russell, cricketer (10 Tests for England 910 runs), dies on March - 23.   

1962  French government uses fighter planes and tanks in attempt to end insurrection by European rightists in Algeria on this day in history.   

1962  JFK visits San Francisco on March - 23.   

1962  On March - 23 josephus RH van Schaik, lawyer/vice-premier of Neth, dies at 80   

1963  On this day in history 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  Peter Lorre, actor (Casino Royale), dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1965  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) on this day in history.   

1965  Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed on March - 23.   

1965  Mae Murray, actress (Bachelor Apartment), dies of heart ailment at 75 on this day in history.   

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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 March - 23 birth of frederik Ruysch, Dutch anatomist   

1645  William Kidd, Pirate Legend From Scotland (d. 1701) was born on March - 23.   

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  On this day in history birth of iman Willem Falck, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1765-83)   

1103  On March - 23 death of eudes I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1058)   

1169  Shirkuh, Kurd general/vizier of Cairo/Saladin's uncle, dies on March - 23.   

1237  Jan of Brienne, King of Jerusalem/Emperor of Constantinople, dies on March - 23.   

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

1369  Death of Pedro, the Cruel, King/tyrant of Castile & Leon, murdered on this day in history.   

1548  Death of Itagaki Nobukata, retainer of Takeda Shingen on this day in history.   

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.