Interesting things that happened March 23rd:
Birthdays on this date:
In 1857 Fannie Farmer, cook
In 1904 Joan Crawford, actor, dearest mommy (No wire hangers, ever!)
In 1910 Akira Kurosawa, movie director
In 1912 Werner von Braun, rocket scientist
In 1922 Marty Allen, comedian
In 1925 Monique Van Vooren (in Brussels, Belgium), actor
In 1926 Martha Wright (in Seattle, Wa****ngton), actor (The Swift Show)
In 1953 Chaka Khan (in Great Lakes, IL), singer
In 1954 Moses Malone, basketball player
In 1965 Richard Grieco, actor (21 Jump Street, Raiders of the Damned),
model
Events worth noting:
In 1743 George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" has its London
premiere.
In 1752 Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later.
In 1775 Patrick Henry reputed to have said "Give me liberty or give me
death!"
In 1806 Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific coast.
In 1839 First known appearance of "O.K." in print (Boston Morning Post).
In 1862 Battle of Kernstown, VA - Jackson begins his Valley Campaign.
In 1901 Dame Nellie Melba, Australian Opera Singer, reveals secret of
her
now famous toast.
In 1919 Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist movement in Milan, Italy.
In 1929 First telephone installed in the White House.
In 1933 German Reichstag granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.
In 1937 Los Angeles Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars.
In 1942 US began moving Japanese-Americans to detention centers.
In 1956 Pakistan became independent within the British Commonwealth.
In 1962 President John F. Kennedy visits San Francisco.
In 1965 Gemini 3 launched, first US 2-man space flight.
In 1983 First Artificial heart recipient Dr. Barney Clark died after 112
days.
+ US President Reagan calls for a strategic defense initiative.
In 1994 Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is gunned
down
during a Tijuana campaign rally.
And remember ...
Foot Health Month
International Hamburger and Pickle Month
National Frozen Food Month
National Furniture Refini****ng Month
National Nutrition Month (US)
National Peanut Month
National Women's History Month
Red Cross Month
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