This Day in History
23 Mar 1066
18th recorded perihelion passage of Halleys Comet
23 Mar 1174
Jocelin abbot of Melrose is elected bishop of Glasgow
23 Mar 1490
1st dated edition of Maimonides Mishneh Torah a code of Jewish religious law is published
23 Mar 1568
Treaty of Longjumeau French huguenots go on strike
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Leading Mexican presidential candidate assassinated
Luis Donaldo Colosio Mexicos ruling partys presidential candidate is gunned down during a campaign rally in the northern border town of Tijuan...
Patrick Henry voices American opposition to British policy
During a speech before the second Virginia Convention Patrick Henry responds to the increasingly oppressive British rule over the American colonies by declarin...
Jim Morrison prompts a Rally for Decency
Dear Mike wrote the recently inaugurated President Nixon to Miami-area teenager Mike Levesque in a letter dated March 26 1969 I was extremely interested to l...
Mussolini founds the Fascist party
Benito Mussolini an Italian World War I veteran and publisher of Socialist newspapers breaks with the Italian Socialists and establishes the nationalist Fasci...
Artificial heart patient dies
On March 23 1983 Barney Clark dies 112 days after becoming the worlds first recipient of a permanent artificial heart. The 61-year-old dentist spent t...
OK enters national vernacular
On this day in 1839 the initials O.K. are first published in The Boston Morning Post. Meant as an abbreviation for oll korrect a p...
Paris hit by shells from new German gun
At 720 in the morning on March 23 1918 an explosion in the Place de la Republique in Paris announces the first attack of a new German gun.The Pariskanone or...
U.S. plane shot down over Laos
One of the first American casualties in Southeast Asia an intelligence-gathering plane en route from Laos to Saigon is shot down over the Plain of Jars in cent...
Prince Sihanouk issues a call for arms
From Peking Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia issues a public call for arms to be used against the Lon Nol government in Phnom Penh and requests the establis...
Wayne Gretzky scores number 802
On March 23 1994 Wayne Gretzky scores his 802nd goal breaking his childhood idol Gordie Howes National Hockey League record for most goals scored in ...
Jackie Kennedy receives horse from governor of Pakistan
On this day in 1962 Pakistans governor Ayub Khan in a gesture of goodwill gives first lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy a horse named Sardar. Governor...
Lewis and Clark depart Fort Clatsop
After passing a wet and tedious winter near the Pacific Coast Lewis and Clark happily leave behind Fort Clatsop and head east for home.The Corps of Discovery a...
Thomas Harris delivers Hannibal manuscript
Bestselling author Thomas Harris delivers his 600-page manuscript for his new novel Hannibal to Delacorte Press. He had promised the book more than 10 years e...
James Cameron’s Titanic wins 11 Academy Awards
By the time James Cameron took the stage to accept his Academy Award for Best Director on the night of March 23 1998 the Oscar dominance of his blockbuster fi...
Tornadoes devastate Nebraska
A horrible month for weather-related disasters in the United States culminates with a devastating tornado ripping through Nebraska near Omaha on this day in 1...
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