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 82^nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 283 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 10, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,044,800 minutes 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 ‘octacontadigon’ 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 331 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 4,475 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 23 Historical Events

• 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.
• 1905 –
  Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete’s union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
• 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.
• 1935 –
  Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
• 1956 –
  Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan)
• 1982 –
  Guatemala’s government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.
• 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.
• 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.

Who were born on March 23?

• 1826 –
  Léon Minkus, German/Czech composer and violinist (d. 1917)
• 1831 –
  Eduard Schlagintweit, German writer (d. 1866)
• 1905 –
  Joan Crawford, American actress (d. 1977)
• 1933 –
  Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist
• 1959 –
  Catherine Keener, American actress
• 1963 –
  Míchel (José Miguel González Martín), Spanish footballer
• 1972 –
  Judith Godrèche, French actress and author
• 1982 –
  Andrea Musacco, Italian footballer
• 1986 –
  Andrea Dovizioso, Italian motorcycle racer
• 1995 –
  Jan Lisiecki, Canadian pianist

Who died on March 23?

• 1606 –
  Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (b. 1547)
• 1748 –
  Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist, and composer (b. 1684)
• 1754 –
  Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (b. 1693)
• 1783 –
  Charles Carroll, American lawyer and delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723)
• 1960 –
  Said Nursî, Islamic thinker from Turkey (b. 1878)
• 1980 –
  Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (b. 1928)
• 1985 –
  Ben Hardwick, Britain’s youngest liver transplant patient (b. 1982)
• 2001 –
  Rowland Evans, American journalist (b. 1921)
• 2002 –
  Eileen Farrell, American soprano (b. 1920)
• 2008 –
  Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (b. 1926)