Today in History
23th March
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| 1014 King Brian Boru of Ireland beats Danes at Battle of Clontarf | ||
| 1154 Damascus surrenders to sultan Nur ad-Din van Aleppo | ||
| 1324 Louis IV, emperor of Germany, was excommunicated by Pope John XXII. | ||
| 1348 1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of Garter) | ||
| 1500 Pedro Cabral lands & annexes Brazil (Terra da Vera Cruz) | ||
| 1501 Portuguese navigator Pedro Cabral & 6 ships return to Lisbon | ||
| 1504 King Maximilian I routes troops to Bavaria | ||
| 1534 Pope Clement declared the marriage between Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon was still valid. The marriage was dissolved in Britain the previous year and Henry had married Anne Boleyn. | ||
| 1616 Netherlands buys De Briel/Vlissingen/Fort Rammekens from England | ||
| 1633 Sweden & Protestant German monarchy form Union of Heilbronn | ||
| 1661 English king Charles II crowned in London | ||
| 1662 Connecticut chartered as an English colony | ||
| 1697 George Baron Anson, British admiral/explorer was born | ||
| 1723 Cornelis Steenoven elected archbishop of Utrecht | ||
| 1728 Samuel Wallis, explorer (Wallis Island) was born | ||
| 1765 The British parliament passed the Stamp Act, imposing duties on the American colonies. | ||
| 1775 Joseph Mallord Turner, England, landscape painter (Shipwreck) was born | ||
| 1775 Speaking in favor of Taking up arms against the British, Patrick Henry told the Virginia Convention "Give me liberty, or give me death!" | ||
| 1795 William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason | ||
| 1798 Dutch emperor accepts new Constitution | ||
| 1801 Paul I, Czar of Russia, was assassinated and succeeded by Alexander I. | ||
| 1810 Thomas Wright, historian was born | ||
| 1826 Missolonghi captured by Turks | ||
| 1849 After the Austrians had been victorious at Novara, Charles Albert of Sardinia abdicated in favor of Victor Emmanuel II. | ||
| 1851 Canada issues its 1st postage stamps | ||
| 1860 Dem convention in Charleston SC divided over slavery | ||
| 1861 Arkansas troops seize Ft Smith | ||
| 1861 Battle of San Antonio, TX | ||
| 1867 Queen Victoria & Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel | ||
| 1882 Albert Coates, St Petersburg Russia, conductor/composer (Eagle) was born | ||
| 1891 Jews are expelled from Moscow Russia | ||
| 1904 American Academy of Arts & Letters forms | ||
| 1908 Denmark, Germany, Engld, France, Neth & Sweden signs North Sea accord | ||
| 1910 International Exhibition opens in Brussels | ||
| 1918 Battle of Zeebrugge ends | ||
| 1918 Dover Patrol overthrows Germany U-boat in East Sea | ||
| 1918 The giant German gun, "Big Bertha," shelled Paris from 75 miles away. | ||
| 1919 Benito Mussolini founded his own party in Italy, the Fasci di Combattimento. | ||
| 1920 Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets, in Ankara | ||
| 1924 British Empire Exhibition opens at Wembley | ||
| 1925 Tennessee banned the teaching of evolution in schools. Teacher John Scopes ignored the ban and was prosecuted later in what became known as "The Monkey Trial." | ||
| 1932 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon | ||
| 1933 The German parliament passed the Enabling Bill, giving Adolf Hitler and the Nazis the dictatorial powers they had been seeking. | ||
| 1938 Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self government | ||
| 1941 Greece Army surrenders to German Nazis | ||
| 1941 RAF brings Greek king George II to Egypt | ||
| 1942 4-day allied bombing on Rostock begins | ||
| 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter | ||
| 1943 British & US offensive directed at Tunis/Bizerta | ||
| 1945 Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated | ||
| 1945 US troops in Italy cross river Po | ||
| 1949 Chinese Red army conquerors Nanjing | ||
| 1949 Netherlands annexes Elten & Tudderen | ||
| 1950 Nationalist China evacuates Hainan Island | ||
| 1952 Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias completed | ||
| 1953 General Charles P Cabell, USAF, becomes deputy director of CIA | ||
| 1956 Under its new constitution Pakistan became an Islamic republic, with Maj. Gen. Iskander Mirza as first provisional president. | ||
| 1959 1st heliport in Britain opens in London | ||
| 1966 The Archbishop of Canterbury met the Pope in Rome, the first meeting between the heads of the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches for 400 years. | ||
| 1967 A military coup took place in Sierra Leone following disputed elections. On the same day in 1971, an attempt to oust the country's leader Siaka Stevens was thwarted. | ||
| 1968 1st decimal coins issued in Britain (5 & 10 pence) | ||
| 1969 Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy | ||
| 1970 South Africa was banned from the Davis Cup tennis tournament because of its apartheid policies. | ||
| 1971 Argentine President Roberto Levingston was deposed in a bloodless coup. | ||
| 1972 Apollo 16 astronauts explores Moon surface | ||
| 1980 Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die | ||
| 1981 British great train robber Ronald Biggs was taken into custody in Barbados after his abduction from Brazil. | ||
| 1982 A military coup in Guatemala deposed the president and installed a junta led by Lt. Gen. Efrain Rios Montt. | ||
| 1983 Dr. Barney Clark died 112 days after being the first person to receive an artificial heart. | ||
| 1983 U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced plans for a new space-based defense system, later known as "Star Wars." | ||
| 1984 AIDS-virus identified (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) | ||
| 1988 A Greek pedals self-powered aircraft, 74 miles | ||
| 1989 Students in Beijing China announce class boycotts | ||
| 1992 McDonald's opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China | ||
| 1993 Eritrea votes to secede from Ethiopia | ||
| 1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexico's ruling party presidential candidate, was assassinated in the northern city of Tijuana. | ||
| 1994 All 75 people on board a Russian Airbus were killed when the plane crashed in Siberia. | ||
| 1996 Lee Teng-hui was sworn in as Taiwan's first democratically elected President. |
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