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March 23 in recent years ... marking the beginning of the largest Ebola outbreak in history. ... Historical Events on March 23
December 15 – Women of Fredonia, New York march against the retail liquor dealers in town, inaugurating the Women's Crusade of 1873–74. This leads to the creation of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. December 23 – Women's Crusade spreads to Hillsboro, Ohio. December 25 – Delta Gamma sorority founded in Oxford, Mississippi.
March 1 – The USS Connecticut is decommissioned. March 2 – The first issue of Time magazine is published. March 23 – The governor of Oklahoma signs House Bill 197 with the Montgomery amendment outlawing the theory of evolution in public school textbooks purchased by the state, the first anti-Darwinian legislation passed in the U.S. [2]
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."
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1933. 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1933rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 933rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 33rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1930s decade.
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.
Selected anniversaries/March. 1562 – An attempt by Francis, Duke of Guise, to disperse a church service by Huguenots in Wassy, France, turned into a massacre, resulting in 50 dead, and starting the French Wars of Religion. 1869 – The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (pictured) finished his design of the first periodic table.
Pakistan Day (Urdu: یومِ پاکستان, lit. Yaum-e-Pakistan) or Pakistan Resolution Day, also Republic Day, is a national holiday in Pakistan primarily commemorating the adoption of the first Constitution of Pakistan during the transition of the Dominion of Pakistan to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on 23 March 1956 making Pakistan the world's first Islamic republic, which remains a ...