Historical Events In March - 23
Saturday, 18 May 2024
1945 On this day in history premier Winston Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen
1946 On this day in history 8th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats NC 43-40
1946 On March - 23 alexandru Zirra, composer, dies at 62
1948 John Cunningham sets world altitude record (54,492' (18,133 m)) on March - 23.
1949 On this day in history the Cars vocalist Ric Ocasek born this day.
1949 Sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story," premieres in NYC on March - 23.
1950 22nd Academy Awards "All King's Men", Broderick Crawford & Olivia de Havilland win on this day in history.
1950 On March - 23 sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greeks government
1950 UN World Meteorological Organization established on this day in history.
1950 "Great to Be Alive" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 perfs on this day in history.
1950 On March - 23 douglas Carr, England cricket leg-spinner (Test 1909), dies
1950 On this day in history 22nd Academy Awards: "All King's Men", Broderick Crawford & Olivia de Havilland win
1951 Wages in France increase 11% on March - 23.
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 on March - 23.
1952 Klaas Schilder, Dutch vicar/theologist/antifascist, dies at 61 on March - 23.
1953 On March - 23 raoul Dufy, painter, Forcalquier, France
1956 On March - 23 pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day)
1956 Sudan becomes independent on this day in history.
1957 US army sells last homing pigeons on this day in history.
1957 L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect, dies at 77 on March - 23.
1958 First launching of simulated Polaris missile from submerged tactical launcher facility off CA on March - 23.
1958 Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist/philosopher, dies at 76 on this day in history.
1960 On this day in history explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit
1960 On March - 23 franklin P Adams, columnist (Information Please), dies at 78
1961 A C Russell, cricketer (10 Tests for England 910 runs), dies on this day in history.
1962 On this day in history french government uses fighter planes and tanks in attempt to end insurrection by European rightists in Algeria.
1962 JFK visits San Francisco on this day in history.
1962 On this day in history josephus RH van Schaik, lawyer/vice-premier of Neth, dies at 80
1963 On this day in history davey Moore, dies seconds after KOed in feather-weight championship
1964 Two Marine helicopter crews of VMO-1 rescued 11 sick, injured and wounded members of a road engineering party that had survived attacks by hostile Indians in the dense jungle of the Amazon basin near Iquitos, Peru on this day in history.
1964 Peter Lorre, actor (Casino Royale), dies at 59 on this day in history.
1965 LCDR John W. Young, USN, Pilot of Gemini 3 completed 3 orbits in 4 hours., 53 minutes at an altitude of 224 km. Recovery was by helicopters from USS Intrepid (CVS-11) on this day in history.
1965 Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed on March - 23.
1965 On this day in history mae Murray, actress (Bachelor Apartment), dies of heart ailment at 75
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