Page 7: Historical Events In March - 23

1945  Premier Winston Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen on this day in history.   

1946  On March - 23 8th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats NC 43-40   

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

1949  Sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story," premieres in NYC on March - 23.   

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

1950  Sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greeks government on this day in history.   

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  Douglas Carr, England cricket leg-spinner (Test 1909), dies on this day in history.   

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

1951  On this day in history wages in France increase 11%   

1952  On March - 23 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   

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

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

1956  Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day) on March - 23.   

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 March - 23.   

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 March - 23.   

1961  A C Russell, cricketer (10 Tests for England 910 runs), dies on this day in history.   

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

1962  On March - 23 jFK visits San Francisco   

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

1965  On March - 23 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  Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed on this day in history.   

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

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1429  Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI of England (d. 1482) was born on this day in history.   

1599  On this day in history birth of thomas Selle, composer   

1638  Frederik Ruysch, Dutch anatomist was born on March - 23.   

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

1699  On this day in history birth of john Bartram, naturalist/explorer, father of American botany   

1723  On March - 23 birth of agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, King of Iran (d. 1771)   

1732  On March - 23 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  Death of Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1058) on March - 23.   

1169  On March - 23 shirkuh, Kurd general/vizier of Cairo/Saladin's uncle, dies   

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

1361  Death of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. c.1310) on this day in history.   

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

1548  On March - 23 death of itagaki Nobukata, retainer of Takeda Shingen   

1555  Julius III, [Giovanni M del Monte], Pope (1550-55), dies at 67 on March - 23.   

1559  On March - 23 death of emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia (killed in battle) (b. 1521/1522)