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, 28,519,200 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 ‘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
- 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.
- 1848 –The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
- 1857 –Elisha Otis’s first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
- 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.
- 1935 –Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
- 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.
- 1978 –The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
- 1982 –Guatemala’s government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.
- 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.
Who were born on March 23?
- 1868 –Dietrich Eckart, early supporter of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party and member of Thule Society (d. 1923)
- 1905 –Joan Crawford, American actress (d. 1977)
- 1932 –Don Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1942 –Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (d. 1980)
- 1955 –Moses Malone, American basketball player
- 1955 –Petrea Burchard, American actress
- 1958 –Michael Sorich, American voice actor, writer and director
- 1968 –Fernando Hierro, Spanish footballer
- 1977 –Miklos Perlus, Canadian voice actor
- 1979 –Misty Hyman, American swimmer
Who died on March 23?
- 1955 –Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (b. 1875)
- 1960 –Franklin Pierce Adams, American newspaper columnist (b. 1881)
- 1964 –Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born actor (b. 1904)
- 1972 –Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer (b. 1895)
- 1991 –Parkash Singh, Indian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1913)
- 1994 –Donald Swann, British composer, musician and entertainer (b. 1923)
- 1995 –Alan Barton, English musician (Black Lace, Smokie) (b. 1953)
- 1998 –Gerald Stano, American serial killer (b. 1951)
- 2006 –David B. Bleak, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932)
- 2009 –Ghukas Chubaryan, Armenian sculptor (b. 1923)
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