Page 7: Historical Events In March - 23

1945  On March - 23 premier Winston Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen   

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  On March - 23 sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story," premieres in NYC   

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

1950  Sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greeks government on March - 23.   

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  Douglas Carr, England cricket leg-spinner (Test 1909), dies on March - 23.   

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  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  Raoul Dufy, painter, Forcalquier, France on March - 23.   

1956  On this day in history pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day)   

1956  Sudan becomes independent on March - 23.   

1957  On March - 23 uS army sells last homing pigeons   

1957  L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

1958  First launching of simulated Polaris missile from submerged tactical launcher facility off CA on March - 23.   

1958  Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist/philosopher, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history a C Russell, cricketer (10 Tests for England 910 runs), dies   

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

1962  On this day in history jFK visits San Francisco   

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  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 on March - 23.   

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  On this day in history mae Murray, actress (Bachelor Apartment), dies of heart ailment at 75   

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1429  Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI of England (d. 1482) was born on March - 23.   

1599  On March - 23 birth of thomas Selle, composer   

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

1645  On March - 23 birth of william Kidd, Pirate Legend From Scotland (d. 1701)   

1699  John Bartram, naturalist/explorer, father of American botany was born on March - 23.   

1723  Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, King of Iran (d. 1771) was born on March - 23.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1237  On this day in history jan of Brienne, King of Jerusalem/Emperor of Constantinople, dies   

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

1369  Death of Pedro, the Cruel, King/tyrant of Castile & Leon, murdered on March - 23.   

1548  Death of Itagaki Nobukata, retainer of Takeda Shingen on March - 23.   

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

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