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TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: MAR 23

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2010 – US President Barack Obama signs the Affordable Care Act (ACA), nicknamed ‘Obamacare’, expanding the availability and affordability of health care insurance

1026 – Koenraad II crowned himself king of Italy.

1593 – English Separatist Puritans John Greenwood and Henry Barrowe tried and sentenced to death on the charge of devising and circulating seditious books

1708 – Pretender to the English throne James III attempts to land at Firth of Forth, Scotland, but is turned away by the British Royal Navy

1775 – American revolutionary Patrick Henry declared, “give me liberty, or give me death!”

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1791 – Etta Palm, a Dutch champion of woman’s rights, sets up a group of women’s clubs called the Confederation of the Friends of Truth.

1806 – Explorers Lewis and Clark, reached the Pacific coast, and began their return journey to the east.

1808 – Napoleon’s brother Joseph took the throne of Spain.

1839 – The first recorded printed use of “OK” [oll korrect] occurred in Boston’s Morning Post.

1840 – The first successful photo of the Moon was taken.

1848 – Hungary proclaimed its independence of Austria.

1857 – Elisha Otis installed the first modern passenger elevator in a public building. It was at the corner of Broome Street and Broadway in New York City.

1880 – John Stevens of Neenah, Wis., patents the grain crushing mill. This mill allows flour production to increase by 70 percent.

1881 – The Boers and Britain signed a peace accord ending the first Boer war.

1889 – U.S. President Harrison opened Oklahoma for white colonization.

1901 – A group of U.S. Army soldiers, led by Brigadier General Frederick Funston, capture Emilio Aguinaldo, the leader of the Philippine Insurrection of 1899.

1901 – It was learned that Boers were starving in British concentration camps in South Africa.

1901 – Shots were fired at Privy Councilor Pobyedonostzev, who was considered to be Russia’s most hated man.

1902 – In Italy, the minimum legal working age was raised from 9 to 12 for boys and from 11 to 15 for girls.

1909 – British Lt. Shackleton found the magnetic South Pole.

1909 – Theodore Roosevelt began an African safari sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.

TR Center - Gone on Safari. Back in a Year.

1912 – The Dixie Cup was invented.

1918 – Lithuania proclaimed independence.

1919 – Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy.

1920 – Britain denounced the U.S. because of their delay in joining the League of Nations.

1921 – Germany announces it will be unable to meet its Great War reparation payments

1931 – Indian independence fighters Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged after conducting an assassination and a bombing. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused.

1932 – In the U.S., the Norris-LaGuardia Act established workers’ right to strike.

1933 – The German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act. The act effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial legislative powers.

1934 – The U.S. Congress accepted the independence of the Philippines in 1945.

1936 – Italy, Austria & Hungary signed the Pact of Rome.

1942 – 2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deported

1942 – During World War II, the U.S. government began evacuating Japanese-Americans from West Coast homes to detention centers.

1944 – Italian resistance group bombs occupying German police at Via Rasella, Rome; killing 33 and wounding 110 of the 156 man force; retaliation kills 335 civilians

1945 – The Swallow Sidecar Company headed by William Lyons agrees to change its name to Jaguar

1951 – U.S. paratroopers descended from flying boxcars in a surprise attack in Korea.

1956 – Pakistan became the first Islamic republic. It was still within the British Commonwealth. The Dominion of Pakistan also included the area of modern-day Bangladesh or East Pakistan, which seceded in 1971.

1956 – Sudan became independent.

1957 – The U.S. Army sold the last of its homing pigeons.

1965 – America’s first two-person space flight took off from Cape Kennedy with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard. The craft was the Gemini 3.

1965 – The Moroccan Army shot at demonstrators. About 100 people were killed.

1967 – Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. called the Vietnam War the biggest obstacle to the civil rights movement.

1970 – Mafia boss Carlo Gambino is arrested for plotting to steal $3 million.

1972 – The U.S. called a halt to the peace talks on Vietnam being held in Paris.

1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero calls on members of the El Salvador armed forces to stop killing their fellow Salvadorians, A death squad assassinated the archbishop only one day after his famous sermon.

1980 – The deposed shah of Iran, Muhammad Riza Pahlavi, left Panama for Egypt.

1981 – US Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls sought abortions

1981 – U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law making statutory rape a crime for men but not women.

1983 – U.S. President Reagan first proposed development of technology to intercept enemy missiles. The proposal became known as the Strategic Defense Initiative and “Star Wars.”

1983 – Dr. Barney Clark died after 112 days with a permanent artificial heart.

1989 – A 1,000-foot diameter asteroid missed Earth by about 430,000 miles.

1989 – Two electrochemists, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischman, announced that they had created nuclear fusion in a test tube at room temperature.

1993 – U.N. experts announced that record ozone lows had been registered over a large area of the Western Hemisphere.

1994 – Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexico’s leading presidential candidate, was assassinated in Tijuana. Mario Aburto Martinez was arrested at the scene and confessed to the killing.

1994 – Howard Stern formally announced his Libertarian run for New York governor.

1998 – Germany’s largest bank pledged $3.1 million to Jewish foundations as restitution for Nazi looting.

1998 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that term limits for state lawmakers were constitutional.

1998 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin fired his Cabinet.

1999 – NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana gave formal approval for air strikes against Serbian targets.

2001 – Russia’s orbiting Mir space station plunged into the South Pacific after its 15-years of use.

2003 – In Nasiriyah, Iraq, 11 soldiers of the 507th Maintenance Company as well as 18 U.S. Marines are killed during the first major conflict of Operation Iraqi Freedom

2005 – Major explosion and fire at the BP’s Texas City Refinery kills 15 workers in Texas City, Texas

2005 – The United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, refuses to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube

2010 – US President Barack Obama signs the Affordable Care Act (ACA), nicknamed ‘Obamacare’, expanding the availability and affordability of health care insurance

2013 – The US Senate approves its first budget in four years by a margin of 50–49

2019 – More than 130 Fulani people killed in Ogossagou, Mali, in attack by Dogon hunters, prompting government ban on the hunters

2019 – Syrian Democratic Forces announce that the last Islamic State territory has been retaken raising flags in Baghuz, Syria and ending the five-year Islamic State “caliphate”

2020 – New York confirmed as new center of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US with 20,875 cases (5,707 in the last day) and 157 deaths

2020 – WHO says the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating, 1st 100,000 cases took 67 days, 2nd 100,000 cases 11 days, 3rd 100,000 cases 4 days

2021 – Cargo ship Ever Given gets stuck in the Suez Canal, Egypt, a 400m megaship it completely blocks the shipping canal

Egypt races to free giant vessel blocking Suez Canal

2022 – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken formally declares that members of Russia armed forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine

REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com

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