Page 8: Historical Events In March - 25
Friday, 23 January 2026
1963 David Moore, US feather weight boxer, dies at 29 

1964 Britain sets memorial for the late President John F Kennedy. 

1965 Actor Sarah Jessica Parker born this day 

1965 Martin Luther King Jr led 25000 to state capitol in Montgomery AL. 

1965 West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution 

1965 Giorgio Federico Ghedini, composer, dies at 72 

1966 Beatles pose with mutilated dolls and butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday and Today" album, It is later pulled. 

1966 US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional. 

1966 Colin Campbell, actor (Leather Boys), dies at 83 

1967 The Turtles' "Happy Together" goes #1. 

1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR. 

1967 Renato Cellini, Italian conductor (b.c.1913) 

1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. 

1968 Douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood 

1969 Andes Pact signed in Peru. 

1969 Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as President 

1969 Alan Mowbray, actor (Dante, Colonel Flack), dies at 72 

1970 Concorde makes its inaugural supersonic flight (700 MPH/1127 KPH). 

1971 European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers. 

1971 Tom Jones, "She's a Lady", goes gold 

1972 America's LP "America" goes #1. 

1973 Majid Khan and Mushtaq Mohammad both out for 99 in Test vs England 

1973 Edward Steichen, pioneer of US photography, dies at 93 

1974 Barbra Streisand records the album "Butterfly" 

1974 Otto Waldis, actor (Unknown World, Whip Hand), dies at 72 

1975 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), shot by nephew. 

1976 "My Fair Lady" opens at St James Theater NYC for 384 performances. 

1976 Argentine military junta bans leftist political parties. 

1977 In another part of Turkey a 5.2 earthquake killed 30, injured some, and caused considerable damage in the Lice-Palu area 

1977 In Turkey a 4.8 earthquake jolted the northeastern part of Turkey, killed at least one, injured several, 

1978 Jack Hulbert, actor (Bulldog Jack), dies at 85. 

1979 Major riot at Bourda prevents day's play in WSC Supertest. 

1979 ... Sykes, British ambassador in The Hague, murdered. 

1982 Wayne Gretzky is recorded as becoming inaugural NHL to score 200 points in a season 

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