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March 23 is the 82nd day of the year (83rd in leap years) ... Historical Events on March 23 This page was last edited on 27 June 2024, at 21:15 ...
March 23: First day of Ramadan (Islam, 2023) Kowloon Walled City. 1400 – After 175 years of rule, the Trần dynasty of Vietnam was deposed by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official. 1839 – An earthquake struck central Burma, causing significant damage and killing an estimated 300 to 400 people.
1989 - Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce cold fusion at the University of Utah. 1994 - In an accident that became known as the Green Ramp disaster, a United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing a group of 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground.
World Hearing Day. National Anthem Day. Missouri Compromise. National Mulled Wine Day. March 4. National Grammar Day. National Hug a G.I. Day. World Obesity Day. National Pound Cake Day.
Current events/2009 March 23. A car bomb is located and defused near a shopping mall in Haifa, Israel. (BBC) Two suicide attacks in Iraq kill at least 22 people and injure more than 50 others. (Bloomberg) Alaska 's Mount Redoubt volcano erupts four more times. (Physorg)
1861 – Nevada Territory and Dakota Territory are organized as political divisions of the United States.; 1901 – Congress passes the Platt Amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
November 5 – King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III. November 6 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested, while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa. November 7 – 11 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 claims 19 ships, and more than 250 lives.
March 30, 1923 (Friday) Benito Mussolini made a famous speech on Italian emigration, declaring that, "For better or for worse, emigration is a physiological necessity of the Italian people. We are forty million people enclosed in our narrow peninsula that has too many mountains, a land that cannot feed everyone."