March 23 in History
What happened on March 23 in history?
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on march 23 in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened on march 23 in history.
?>1981
U.S. Supreme Court upholds a law making statutory rape a crime for men but not women.
1972
The United States calls a halt to the peace talks on Vietnam being held in Paris.
1970
Mafia boss Carlo Gambino is arrested for plotting to steal $3 million.
1967
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. calls the Vietnam War the biggest obstacle to the civil rights movement.
1956
Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic, although it is still within the British Commonwealth.
1951
U.S. paratroopers descend from flying boxcars in a surprise attack in Korea.
1942
The Japanese occupy the Anadaman Islands in the Indian Ocean.
1933
The Reichstag gives Adolf Hitler the power to rule by decree.
1927
Captain Hawthorne Gray sets a new balloon record soaring to 28,510 feet.
1921
Arthur G. Hamilton sets a new parachute record, safely jumping 24,400 feet.
1920
Great Britain denounces the United States because of its delay in joining the League of Nations.
1917
Austrian Emperor Charles I makes a peace proposal to French President Poincare.
1909
British Lt. Ernest Shackleton finds the magnetic South Pole.
1909
Theodore Roosevelt begins an African safari sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
1903
The Wright brothers obtain an airplane patent.
1901
A group of U.S. Army soldiers, led by Brigadier General Frederick Funston, capture Emilio Aguinaldo, the leader of the Philippine Insurrection of 1899.
1880
John Stevens of Neenah, Wis., patents the grain crushing mill. This mill allows flour production to increase by 70 percent.
1862
Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson faces his only defeat at the Battle of Kernstown, Va
1858
Eleazer A. Gardner of Philadelphia patents the cable street car, which runs on overhead cables.
1857
Elisha Otis installs the first modern passenger elevator in a public building, at the corner of Broome Street and Broadway in New York City.
1848
Hungary proclaims its independence of Austria.
1791
Etta Palm, a Dutch champion of woman’s rights, sets up a group of women’s clubs called the Confederation of the Friends of Truth.
1775
American revolutionary hero Patrick Henry, while addressing the House of Burgesses, declares “give me liberty, or give me death!”
1743
Handel’s Messiah is performed for the first time in London.
1657
France and England form an alliance against Spain.