March 23: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1775 - American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech - "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" - at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.
2. 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.
3. 1857 - Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
4. 1909 - Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
5. 1919 - In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
6. 1962 - NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace initiative.
7. 1965 - NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
8. 1989 - Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce their discovery of cold fusion at the University of Utah.
9. 1996 - Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
10. 2001 - The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
11. Famous Birthdays: Pierre-Simon Laplace (French mathematician and astronomer), Schuyler Colfax (American politician, 17th Vice President of the United States), Ludwig Quidde (German activist, Nobel Prize laureate), Hermann Staudinger (German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate), Daniel Bovet (Swiss-Italian pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate)

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