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Again Catherine de' Medici and Charles IX of France make substantial concessions to the Huguenots. 1568 Treaty of Longjumeau: French huguenots go on strike 1579 Friesland joins Union of Utrecht 1593 English Congressionalist Henry Barrow accused of slander 1630 French troops occupy Pinerolo Piedmont 1657 France & England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk 1670 François Dollier de Casson 1636-1701 claims Lake Erie territory for France 1708 English pretender to the throne James III lands at Firth of Forth 1708 James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth. 1775 Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death" 1794 Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine 1794 Lieutenant-General Tadeusz Kosciuszko returns to Poland 1801 Murder attempt on Czar Paul I 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. 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. 1806 Lewis & Clark reach Pacific coast 1808 Napoleon's brother Joseph takes the throne of Spain 1815 USS Hornet captures HMS Penguin in battle lasting 22 minutes 1821 Battle and fall of city of Kalamata, Greek War of Independence. 1836 Coin Press invented by Franklin Beale 1848 First organized band of settlers lands at Dunedin, New Zealand. 1848 The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded. 1849 Battle of Novara (King Charles Albert vs Italian republic) 1857 Elisha Otis' first elevator installed (488 Broadway, NYC) 1857 Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City. 1858 Streetcar patented (Eleazer A Gardner of Philadelphia) 1861 London's first tramcars, designed by Mr Train of New York, begins operating 1862 Battle of Kernstown VA-Jackson begins his Valley Campaign 1864 Encounter at Camden AR 1865 General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro NC 1867 Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Johnson's veto 1875 Visitor posting - Gilbert & Sullivan\'s "Trial by Jury" first performed at Royalty Theatre - United Kingdom 1880 Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisconsin) 1881 Boers & Britain sign peace accord; end first Boer war 1881 Gas lamp sets fire to Nice France opera house; 70 die 1882 SECNAV Hunt issues General Order No. 292 creating Office of Naval Intelligence. 1887 More than 80 miners die in gas explosion in colliery at Bulli, NSW. 1889 Edmonton Alberta's temperature reaches 22.2 C; warmest March day on record. 1889 Land run: President Benjamin Harrison opens Oklahoma to white settlement starting on April 22. 1889 President Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization 1889 The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India. 1889 The free Woolwich Ferry officially opens in east London. 1891 The first jazz concert was held at Carnegie Hall 1896 The Raines Law is passed by the New York State Legislature, restricting Sunday sale of alcohol to hotels 1901 Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast 1903 The Wright Brothers apply for a patent on their invention of one of the first successful airplanes. 1903 Wright brothers obtain airplane patent 1908 American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in hospital two days later 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. 1912 Dixie Cup invented 1915 Zion Mule Corp forms 1917 4 day series of tornadoes kills 211 in Midwest US 1917 Launching of USS New Mexico, first dreadnought with turboelectric drive 1918 Alick Wickham dives 200' into Australia's Yarra River 1918 Crépy-en-Laonnoise: German artillery shells Paris France, 256 killed 1918 Lithuania proclaims independence 1918 Paris bombs "Thick Bertha's Dike" (nickname for the widow Krupp) 1918 The giant German gun, Big Bertha, shells Paris from 120 km away; 1919 Bashkir ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted 1919 Benito Mussolini, an Italian World War I veteran and publisher of Socialist newspapers, breaks with the Italian Socialists and establishes the nationalist Fasci di Combattimento 1919 In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement. 1919 Moscow's Politburo/Central Committee forms 1920 Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms 1922 First airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington DC 1923 Frank Silver & Irving Conn release "Yes, We Have No Bananas" 1929 First telephone installed in White House 1931 Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev embrace the gallows during the Indian struggle for independence. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused. 1931 Visitor posting - Sahid Bhagat Singh was hanged and he became a legendary hero for the masses at 24. - India anilkumar.gaya@gmail.com 1933 Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolph Hitler dictatorial powers 1933 Kroll Opera in Berlin opens 1933 The Reichstag passes the Enabling act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany. 1934 US Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945 1935 Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. 1936 Italy, Austria & Hungary sign Pact of Rome 1937 Los Angeles Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars 1940 All-India-Muslim League calls for a Muslim homeland 1940 First radio broadcast of "Truth or Consequences" on CBS 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. 1942 2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deported 1942 Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean 1942 US move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers 1942 World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands. 1943 German counter attack on US lines in Tunisia 1944 Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome, 33 die 1944 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 meter without a parachute & lives 1945 British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine 1945 Carriers begin pre-assault strikes on Okinawa, kamikaze attacks follow 1945 Premier Winston Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen 1949 The Cars vocalist Ric Ocasek born this day. 1950 22nd Academy Awards: "All King's Men", Broderick Crawford & Olivia de Havilland win 1950 Sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greeks government 1950 UN World Meteorological Organization established 1951 Wages in France increase 11% 1956 Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan) 1956 Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day) 1956 Sudan becomes independent 1957 US army sells last homing pigeons 1958 First launching of simulated Polaris missile from submerged tactical launcher facility off CA. 1959 Visitor posting - March 23 1959 is my wife Pam's birthday 1959 Visitor posting - Robin Gibson was born on March 23rd, 1959 in Morristown,Tennessee 1960 Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit 1961 Number one hit on UK music charts - Elvis Presley - Wooden Heart 1962 French government uses fighter planes and tanks in attempt to end insurrection by European rightists in Algeria. 1962 JFK visits San Francisco 1962 NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, was launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace initiative. 1962 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Shadows - Wonderful Land 1964 Two Marine helicopter crews of VMO-1 rescued 11 sick, injured and wounded members of a road engineering party that had survived attacks by hostile Indians in the dense jungle of the Amazon basin near Iquitos, Peru. 1965 LCDR John W. Young, USN, Pilot of Gemini 3 completed 3 orbits in 4 hours., 53 minutes at an altitude of 224 km. Recovery was by helicopters from USS Intrepid (CVS-11). 1965 Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed 1965 NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young). 1966 Visitor posting - http://totallyfrank.info - United Kingdom fp66@msn.com 1966 First official meeting after 400 years of Catholic & Anglican Church 1969 Rally for Decency (Miami) 1972 Evil Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars 1973 Yoko Ono is granted permanent residence in US 1976 International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratify) 1977 UK hist Lib-Lab pact 1978 The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line. 1979 In a ceremony at NAS Norfolk, Vice Admiral Forrest S. Petersen transferred ownership of the last Kawanishi H8K2 flying boat to the Japanese Museum of Maritime Science. 1980 Archbishop scar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans. 1980 Shah of Iran arrives in Egypt 1982 Guatemala military coup under General Rios Montt, President Romeo Lucas flees 1982 Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas Garca is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efran Ros Montt. 1983 Barney B. Clark, survived for 112 days before his death, the Jarvick 7, an artificial heart made of polyurethane and aluminum 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. 1985 Billy Joel weds supermodel Christie Brinkley 1985 Julian Lennon's first concert (San Antonio TX) 1985 Number one hit on UK music charts - Philip Bailey & Phil Collins - Easy Lover 1986 Heavyweight Trevor Berbick KOs Pinklon Thomas 1987 Near Kamloops, BC an avalanche kills six American skiers and their Canadian guide. 1987 Soap opera "Bold & Beautiful" premieres 1987 US offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf 1987 West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns 1989 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature 1989 Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 years for killing his adopted daughter 1989 Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce cold fusion at the University of Utah. 1990 Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound & pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill 1991 Visitor posting - Birth-Kyle Hance who Enhances Peoples Lives graced the earth with his presence - USA 1991 20 Tornadoes kill 5 in Tennessee 1992 Education (Universities Funding Council) (Supplementary Functions) Order Sustained 1992 WordStar announced it would buy Delrina Corporation, makers of a fax program called WinFax. 1994 Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes in Siberia when the pilot's fifteen-year old son accidentally disengages the autopilot, killing 75. 1994 Amy Fisher's lover, Joey Buttafuoco, released from jail after 4 months & 9 days 1994 At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martnez. 1994 Howard Stern formally announces his Libertarian run for New York Governor 1994 Russian Airbus A-310 crashes in Siberia at Novokusnetsk. 74-75 killed killed because son of pilot flew plane. 1994 Wayne Gretzky sets all-time NHL goal scoring record with 804. 1995 Dollar equals 88.41 yen (record) 1996 Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President. 1997 17th Golden Raspberry Awards: Striptease wins 1997 The pilot episode of the successful Midsomer Murders series with John Nettles airs for the first time, attracting 13.5 million viewers 1997 Wrestlemania XIII in Chicago, Undertaker beats Psycho Sid for title 1998 70th Academy Awards: Titanic, Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt win 1999 Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis Mara Argaa. 2000 Papua New Guinea agrees to create an autonomous government on Bougainville island and says it may hold a referendum on independence following autonomy; 2001 The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji. 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. 2003 The Australian cricket team defeats India in the cricket World cup to win their second successive Cricket World Cup. 2004 Andhra Pradesh Federation of Trade Unions holds its first conference in Hyderabad, India. 2005 A major explosion at the Texas City Refinery kills 15 workers. 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. 2006 Federal Reserve discontinues publishing M3 money supply. 2007 Burnley Tunnel catastrophe occurs in Melbourne Australia. 2007 Iranian Navy seize Royal Navy personnel in Iraqi waters. 2008 US Vice President Cheney visited Israel today More historical events added daily - keep checking back Add your own Personal Historic listing FREE! - Click Here Return to Daily Calendar Contact us at: info @ datesinhistory.com (remove the spaces) "This site contains links to other Internet sites. 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