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23 March, 2007

Burnley Tunnel catastrophe occurs in Melbourne, Australia.

23 March, 2007

Iranian Navy seize Royal Navy personnel in Iraqi waters.

23 March, 2006

The Federal Reserve discontinues publishing M3 money supply.

23 March, 2005

The United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, refuses to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavos feeding tube.

23 March, 2005

A major explosion at the Texas City Refinery kills 15 workers.

23 March, 2004

Andhra Pradesh Federation of Trade Unions holds its first conference in Hyderabad, India.

23 March, 2003

In Nasiriyah, Iraq, 11 soldiers of the 507th Maintenance Company as well as 18 U.S. Marines are killed during the first major conflict of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

23 March, 2001

The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.

23 March, 1999

Gunmen assassinate Paraguays Vice President Luis María Argaña.

23 March, 1996

Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.

23 March, 1994

At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.

23 March, 1994

Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes in Siberia when the pilots fifteen-year old son accidentally disengages the autopilot, killing 75.

23 March, 1994

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 later to become known as the Green Ramp Disaster.

23 March, 1989

Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce cold fusion at the University of Utah.

23 March, 1983

Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.

23 March, 1982

Guatemalas government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.

23 March, 1980

Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.

23 March, 1978

The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.

23 March, 1965

NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).

23 March, 1962

NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, was launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhowers Atoms for Peace initiative.

23 March, 1956

Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan)

23 March, 1942

World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands.

23 March, 1940

The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.

23 March, 1935

Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.

23 March, 1933

The Reichstag passes the Enabling act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.

23 March, 1931

Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev embrace the gallows during the Indian struggle for independence. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused.

23 March, 1919

In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.

23 March, 1909

Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.

23 March, 1908

American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.

23 March, 1903

The Wright Brothers apply for a patent on their invention of one of the first successful airplanes.

23 March, 1896

The Raines Law is passed by the New York State Legislature, restricting Sunday sale of alcohol to hotels.

23 March, 1889

Land Run: President Benjamin Harrison opens Oklahoma to white settlement starting on April 22.

23 March, 1889

The free Woolwich Ferry officially opens in east London.

23 March, 1889

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India.

23 March, 1879

War of the Pacific was fought between Chile and the joints forces of Bolivia and Peru. Chile successfully took over Arica and Tarapacá which left Bolivia as a landlocked country.

23 March, 1868

The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.

23 March, 1857

Elisha Otiss first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.

23 March, 1848

The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.

23 March, 1821

Battle and fall of city of Kalamata, Greek War of Independence.

23 March, 1806

After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.

23 March, 1801

Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michaels Castle.

23 March, 1775

American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his famous speech -"give me liberty or give me death" at St. Johns Church in Richmond, Virginia.

23 March, 1708

James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth.

23 March, 1568

Peace of Longjumeau ends the Second War of Religion in France. Again Catherine de Medici and Charles IX of France make substantial concessions to the Huguenots.

23 March, 1174

Jocelin, abbot of Melrose, is elected bishop of Glasgow.

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