About March 23
March 23, 2024 is the 83rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 283 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 312 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 23
- 1708 –James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth.
- 1801 –Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael’s Castle.
- 1821 –Greek War of Independence: Battle and fall of city of Kalamata.
- 1848 –The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
- 1862 –The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign. Though a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond.
- 1868 –The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
- 1879 –War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.
- 1889 –The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India.
- 1919 –In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
- 1931 –Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for murder during the Indian struggle for independence.
- 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.
- 1956 –Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan)
- 1965 –NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States’ first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
- 1989 –Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce their discovery of cold fusion at the University of Utah.
- 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 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.
- 1994 –Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes in Siberia when the pilot’s fifteen-year old son accidentally disengages the autopilot, killing all 75 people on board.
- 1996 –Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
- 1999 –Gunmen assassinate Paraguay’s Vice President Luis María Argaña.
- 2001 –The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
- 2005 –Texas City Refinery explosion: During a test on a distillation tower liquid waste builds up and flows out of a blowout tower. Waste fumes ignite and explode killing 15 workers.
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