What are the important events that happened on March 23? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 23: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 23 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 10, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,711,152,000 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘octacontatrigon’ day.
Aries is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,110 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 23 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1857 –Elisha Otis’s first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
- 1868 –The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
- 1919 –In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
- 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)
- 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.
- 1991 –The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.
- 1999 –Gunmen assassinate Paraguay’s Vice President Luis María Argaña.
- 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.
Who were born on March 23?
- 1831 –Eduard Schlagintweit, German writer (d. 1866)
- 1887 –Prince Felix Yusupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (d. 1967)
- 1910 –Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (d. 1998)
- 1920 –Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and coach
- 1942 –Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (d. 1980)
- 1952 –Kim Stanley Robinson, American author
- 1965 –Sarah G. Buxton, American actress
- 1971 –Alexander Selivanov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1978 –David Tom, American actor, twin brother of listed above
- 1995 –Jan Lisiecki, Canadian pianist
Who died on March 23?
- 1369 –King Peter of Castile (b. 1334)
- 1783 –Charles Carroll, American lawyer and delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723)
- 1842 –Stendhal, French writer (b. 1783)
- 1935 –Florence Moore, American actress (b. 1886)
- 1985 –Ben Hardwick, Britain’s youngest liver transplant patient (b. 1982)
- 1985 –Richard Beeching, chairman of British Railways (b. 1913)
- 1992 –Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1899)
- 1994 –Donald Swann, British composer, musician and entertainer (b. 1923)
- 1994 –Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (b. 1921)
- 2002 –Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (b. 1977)
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