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Events on the 23rd of March in history

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23 Mar 1026 Koenraad II crowns himself king of Italy
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23 Mar 1066 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
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23 Mar 1153 Treaty of Konstanz between Frederik I "Barbarossa" andPope Eugene III
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23 Mar 1400 The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
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23 Mar 1490 1st dated edition of Maimonides "Mishna Torah" published
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23 Mar 1490 Maimonides Mishneh Torah published
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23 Mar 1534 Arag
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23 Mar 1540 Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last religious community to be closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
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23 Mar 1568 The Peace of Longjumeau is signed, ending the second phase of the French Wars of Religion.
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23 Mar 1568 Treaty of Longjumeau: French huguenots go on strike
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23 Mar 1579 Friesland joins Union of Utrecht
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23 Mar 1593 English Congressionalist Henry Barrow accused of slander
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23 Mar 1630 French troops occupy Pinerolo Piedmont
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23 Mar 1657 France & England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk
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23 Mar 1708 James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth.
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23 Mar 1708 English pretender to the throne James III lands at Firth of Forth
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23 Mar 1743 George Frideric H
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23 Mar 1752 Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later
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23 Mar 1757 Capture of Chandannagar fort by British forces.
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23 Mar 1775 Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death"
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23 Mar 1775 American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – "Give me liberty, or give me death!" – at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.
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23 Mar 1794 1st US patent (Joseph G Pierson for a riveting machine)
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23 Mar 1794 Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine
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23 Mar 1794 Lieutenant-General Tadeusz Kosciuszko returns to Poland
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23 Mar 1801 Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death inside his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle.
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23 Mar 1801 Murder attempt on Czar Paul I
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23 Mar 1806 After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.
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23 Mar 1806 Lewis & Clark reach Pacific coast
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23 Mar 1808 Napoleon's brother Joseph takes the throne of Spain
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23 Mar 1821 Greek War of Independence: Battle and fall of city of Kalamata.
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23 Mar 1832 British Parliament passes reform bill
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23 Mar 1835 Charles Darwin reaches Los Arenales, in the Andes
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23 Mar 1836 Coin Press invented by Franklin Beale
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23 Mar 1839 1st known use of term OK (Boston)
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23 Mar 1839 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post)
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23 Mar 1840 Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype)
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23 Mar 1848 The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
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23 Mar 1849 Battle of Novara (King Charles Albert vs Italian republic)
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23 Mar 1857 Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
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23 Mar 1857 Elisha Otis' 1st elevator installed (488 Broadway, NYC)
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23 Mar 1858 Streetcar patented (Eleazer A Gardner of Philadelphia)
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23 Mar 1861 London's 1st tramcars, designed by Mr Train of New York, begins operating
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23 Mar 1862 The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Though a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond.
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23 Mar 1862 Battle of Kernstown VA-Jackson begins his Valley Campaign
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23 Mar 1864 Encounter at Camden AR
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23 Mar 1865 General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro NC
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23 Mar 1867 Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Johnson's veto
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23 Mar 1868 University of California founded (Oakland, California)
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23 Mar 1868 The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
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23 Mar 1879 War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.
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23 Mar 1880 Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisconsin)
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23 Mar 1881 Boers & Britain sign peace accord; end 1st Boer war
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23 Mar 1881 Gas lamp sets fire to Nice France opera house; 70 die
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23 Mar 1885 Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hưng Hóa, northern Vietnam.
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23 Mar 1888 In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
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23 Mar 1889 The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, India.
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23 Mar 1889 President Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization
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23 Mar 1891 1st jazz concert was held at Carnegie Hall
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23 Mar 1896 Umberto Giordano's opera "Andrea Ch
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23 Mar 1901 Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by forces of General Frederick Funston.
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23 Mar 1901 Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast
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23 Mar 1903 Wright brothers obtain airplane patent
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23 Mar 1905 Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
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23 Mar 1908 American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.
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23 Mar 1909 Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
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23 Mar 1910 1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st US auto speedway)
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23 Mar 1912 Dixie Cup invented
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23 Mar 1915 Zion Mule Corp forms
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23 Mar 1917 Tornadoes kills 211 over 4 days in Midwest US
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23 Mar 1917 4 day series of tornadoes kills 211 in Midwest US
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23 Mar 1918 First World War: On the third day of the German Spring Offensive, the 10th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment is annihilated with many of the men becoming prisoners of war
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23 Mar 1918 Alick Wickham dives 200' into Australia's Yarra River
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23 Mar 1918 Cr
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23 Mar 1918 Lithuania proclaims independence
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23 Mar 1918 Paris bombs "Thick Bertha's Dike" (nickname for the widow Krupp)
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23 Mar 1919 In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
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23 Mar 1919 Bashkir ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted
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23 Mar 1919 Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan Italy
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23 Mar 1919 Moscow's Politburo/Central Committee forms
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23 Mar 1920 Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms
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23 Mar 1922 1st airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington DC
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23 Mar 1922 KMJ-AM in Fresno CA begins radio transmissions
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23 Mar 1922 WEW-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions
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23 Mar 1923 Frank Silver and Irving Conn release "Yes, We Have No Bananas"
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23 Mar 1925 Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution
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23 Mar 1926 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens outscore Pitt Pirates, 6-4 in 2 games
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23 Mar 1926 NHL Championship: Montr
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23 Mar 1929 1st telephone installed in White House
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23 Mar 1930 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson
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23 Mar 1930 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner
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23 Mar 1931 Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian struggle for independence.
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23 Mar 1933 The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
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23 Mar 1933 Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers
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23 Mar 1933 Kroll Opera in Berlin opens
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23 Mar 1934 US Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945
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23 Mar 1935 Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
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23 Mar 1936 Italy, Austria & Hungary sign Pact of Rome
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23 Mar 1937 Los Angeles Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars
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23 Mar 1938 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis frees 74 St L Cardinals minor leaguers
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23 Mar 1939 The Hungarian air force attacks the headquarters of Slovak air force in the city of Spišská Nová Ves, kills 13 people and began the Slovak–Hungarian War.
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23 Mar 1940 1st radio broadcast of "Truth or Consequences" on CBS
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23 Mar 1940 The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All-India Muslim League.
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23 Mar 1940 All-India-Muslim League calls for a Muslim homeland
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23 Mar 1942 World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands.
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23 Mar 1942 2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deported
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23 Mar 1942 Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean
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23 Mar 1942 US move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers
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23 Mar 1943 German counter attack on US lines in Tunisia
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23 Mar 1944 Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome, 33 die
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23 Mar 1944 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 meter without a parachute & lives
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23 Mar 1945 British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine
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23 Mar 1945 Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 US Navy ships bomb Okinawa
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23 Mar 1945 Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen
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23 Mar 1946 8th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats North Carolina 43-40
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23 Mar 1948 John Cunningham sets world altitude record (54,492' (18,133 meter))
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23 Mar 1949 Sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story" premieres in New York NY
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23 Mar 1950 "Great to Be Alive" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 performances
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23 Mar 1950 22nd Academy Awards: "All King's Men", Broderick Crawford & Olivia de Havilland win
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23 Mar 1950 Sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greeks government
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23 Mar 1950 UN World Meteorological Organization established
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23 Mar 1951 Wages in France increase 11%
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23 Mar 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
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23 Mar 1956 Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan)
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23 Mar 1956 18th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: San Francisco beats Iowa 83-71; this is San Francisco's 2nd consecutive national basketball championship
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23 Mar 1956 Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day)
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23 Mar 1956 Sudan becomes independent
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23 Mar 1957 19th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Kansas 54-53 (3 overtimes)
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23 Mar 1957 US army sells last homing pigeons
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23 Mar 1960 Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit
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23 Mar 1962 Wake Forest coach "Bones" McKinney becomes 2nd person to play and coach
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23 Mar 1962 JFK visits San Francisco
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23 Mar 1962 Nawab of Pataudi captains India cricket vs West Indies age 21 years 77 days
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23 Mar 1962 William DeWitt buys Cincinnati Reds for $4,625,000
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23 Mar 1963 25th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Loyola beats Cincinnati 60-58 (OT)
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23 Mar 1963 Rolf Hochhuth's "Der Stellvertreter" premieres in Berlin
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23 Mar 1964 UNCTAD 1 world conference opens in Geneva
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23 Mar 1965 Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight (Grissom & Young)
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23 Mar 1965 The first issue of The Vigilant is published from Khartoum.
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23 Mar 1965 NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
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23 Mar 1965 Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed
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23 Mar 1966 1st official meeting after 400 years of Catholic & Anglican Church
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23 Mar 1968 30th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats North Carolina 78-55
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23 Mar 1968 Reverend Walter Fauntroy, is 1st non-voting congressional delegate from Washington DC
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23 Mar 1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Charlotte Golf Invitational
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23 Mar 1969 Rally for Decency (Miami)
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23 Mar 1971 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept simplified divorce
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23 Mar 1971 USSR performs underground nuclear test
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23 Mar 1972 Evil Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars
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23 Mar 1972 New York Yankees agree to continue playing ball in the Bronx
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23 Mar 1973 After a 5
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23 Mar 1973 Yoko Ono is granted permanent residence in US
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23 Mar 1975 Sue Roberts wins LPGA Bing Crosby International Golf Classic
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23 Mar 1976 International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying)
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23 Mar 1977 The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.
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23 Mar 1978 The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
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23 Mar 1979 Wings release "Goodnight Tonight"
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23 Mar 1979 Larry Holmes TKOs Osvaldo Ocasio in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
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23 Mar 1979 Wings release "Goodnight Tonight"
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23 Mar 1980 Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.
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23 Mar 1980 Border completes 150 in each inning of Test Cricket vs Pakistan
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23 Mar 1980 Donna Caponi Young Pro-Am wins LPGA National Golf Tournament
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23 Mar 1980 France performs nuclear test
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23 Mar 1980 Shah of Iran arrives in Egypt
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23 Mar 1981 Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls sought abortions
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23 Mar 1981 Supreme Court upholds law making statutory rape a crime only for men
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23 Mar 1982 Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.
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23 Mar 1982 Guatemala military coup under General Rios Montt, President Romeo Lucas flees
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23 Mar 1982 Isle's Mike Bossy's 20th career hat trick-4 goals
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23 Mar 1983 US President Ronald Reagan introduces "Star Wars"-plan (SDI)
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23 Mar 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
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23 Mar 1984 Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa won by J Torvill and Chris Dean (GRB)
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23 Mar 1984 Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Underhill and Paul Martini (CAN)
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23 Mar 1984 Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
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23 Mar 1984 Andrea Sch
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23 Mar 1984 World Ice Dance Championship in Ottawa won by J Torvill & Chris Dean (Great Britain)
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23 Mar 1984 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Underhill & Paul Martini (Canada)
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23 Mar 1984 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic)
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23 Mar 1984 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
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23 Mar 1985 Betsy King wins LPGA Standard Register PING
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23 Mar 1985 Billy Joel weds supermodel Christie Brinkley
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23 Mar 1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-D mission
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23 Mar 1985 Julian Lennon's 1st concert (San Antonio TX)
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23 Mar 1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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23 Mar 1986 6th Golden Raspberry Awards: Rambo; First Blood Part II wins
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23 Mar 1986 Heavyweight Trevor Berbick KOs Pinklon Thomas
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23 Mar 1986 Penny Pulz wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open
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23 Mar 1987 Soap "Bold and the Beautiful" premieres
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23 Mar 1987 Soap opera "Bold & Beautiful" premieres
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23 Mar 1987 US offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf
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23 Mar 1987 West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns
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23 Mar 1989 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature
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23 Mar 1989 Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 years for killing his adopted daughter
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23 Mar 1990 Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound & pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill
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23 Mar 1991 1st World League of American Football games, London beats Frankfurt 24-11, Sacramento beats Raleigh-Dur 9-3 and Mont beats Birmingham 20-5
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23 Mar 1991 The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.
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23 Mar 1991 20 Tornadoes kill 5 in Tennessee
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23 Mar 1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.12 meter)
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23 Mar 1992 Florida Marlins begin selling tickets
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23 Mar 1993 Belgian government of Dehaene, resigns
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23 Mar 1993 New York Knicks & Phoenix Suns get into a major brawl
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23 Mar 1994 Joey Buttafuoco, released from jail after 4 months and 9 days
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23 Mar 1994 A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.
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23 Mar 1994 Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes in Siberia when the pilot's fifteen-year-old son accidentally disengages the autopilot, killing all 75 people on board.
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23 Mar 1994 At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.
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23 Mar 1994 Amy Fisher's lover, Joey Buttafuoco, released from jail after 4 months & 9 days
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23 Mar 1994 Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10 km (11: 8)
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23 Mar 1994 Howard Stern formally announces his Libertarian run for New York Governor
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23 Mar 1994 Last day of Test cricket for Kapil Dev
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23 Mar 1994 Richard Jacobs buys naming rights to Indians new ball park at Gateway for $13.8 million (renamed Jacobs Field)
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23 Mar 1994 Russian Airbus A-310 crashes in Siberia (74-75 killed)
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23 Mar 1994 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 802 goals scored
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23 Mar 1995 "How To Succeed in Business..." opens at R Rodgers NYC for 548 performances
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23 Mar 1995 "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" opens at R Rodgers NYC for 548 performances
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23 Mar 1995 Dollar equals 88.41 yen (record)
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23 Mar 1996 Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
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23 Mar 1997 "Mandy Patinkin in Concert, " closes at Lyceum Theater, New York City
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23 Mar 1997 Wins Standard Register PING
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23 Mar 1997 "Mandy Patinkin in Concert" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC
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23 Mar 1997 17th Golden Raspberry Awards: Striptease wins
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23 Mar 1997 Laura Davies wins Standard Register PING Golf Tournament
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23 Mar 1997 Liberty Legends of Senior Golf
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23 Mar 1997 Phil Mickelson wins Bay Hill Golf Invitiational
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23 Mar 1997 Wrestlemania XIII in Chicago, Undertaker beats Psycho Sid for title
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23 Mar 1998 70th Academy Awards
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23 Mar 1998 70th Academy Awards: Titanic, Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt win
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23 Mar 1999 Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
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23 Mar 2001 The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
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23 Mar 2003 Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq.
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23 Mar 2005 Texas City Refinery explosion: During a test on a distillation tower liquid waste builds up and flows out of a blowout tower. Waste fumes ignite and explode killing 15 workers.
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23 Mar 2009 FedEx Express Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying from Guangzhou, China crashes at Tokyo's Narita International Airport, killing both the captain and the co-pilot.
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