March 23: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

March 23rd marks the 82nd day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 83rd in case of leap years). There are 283 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Aries. Famous birthdays on this day include Joan Crawford (1903), Damon Albarn (1968) and Pierre Palmade (1968). Holidays and observances around the world include: World Meteorological Day.
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Holidays

Saint Rebecca (d.1914)
Roman Empire - Tubilustrium was held in honor of Mars.
Ancient Latvia - Lieldienas held in honor of Mara and other pagan goddesses.
Pakistan - National Day (Republic Day).
Saint Turibius of Mongrovejo (died 1606)
Saint Ethelwald
Saint Victorian
Roman Empire - The fifth and final day of Quinquatria, held in honor of Minerva.
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Events

2019 Syrian Civil War: Battle of Baghuz Fawqani - The Syrian Democratic Forces announces the capture of ISIL's last territory in Syria.
2018 Aftermath from the 2017 Parsons Green Bombing: Ahmed Hassan Mohammed Ali, a terrorist convict, is being held for life in London on one count each of attempted murder and causing an explosive with intent to endanger lives. Before he can be paroled, he will need to serve 34 years.
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2016 Van Leeuw claims that 31 people were killed and 271 were injured by the bombings.
2015 Iraqi insurgency (2011-present). Multiple bombings in Baghdad in Iraq have killed at least nineteen and injured thirty-six more.
2014 Turkish F-16s shot down a Syrian military plane for violating Turkish airspace. Spokesman for the Syrian Arab Republic denied this claim, claiming that the aircraft was in Syrian Airspace at the time it was shot down.
2013 War on Terror: The Pakistani Taliban threaten assassinate the former President Pervez Musharraf, if he goes back to Pakistan. (CNN) After "joint efforts", an Australian man was freed from a ransom demand by an al-Qaeda-linked organization in the Philippines.
2012 The Financial Services Committee of Congress receives a memo quoting Edith O'Brien (treasurer of defunct broker MF Global), stating that Jon S. Corzine personally ordered the transfer of customers' funds to a brokerage account at JP Morgan Chase last Oct.
2011 Protests in Syria 2011
2010 In a White House ceremony, President Barack Obama signed a landmark US$938 million health-care reform bill. The legislation was opposed by Republicans who pledged to repeal it. 13 states filed lawsuits against the federal government for the constitution of the law. This law will make coverage available to more than 30,000,000 Americans who are not insured and it will end discrimination from insurance companies against those with medical conditions.
2009 Near a Haifa, Israel shopping center, a car bomb was located and defused.
2008 After five years of fighting, the death toll for US soldiers in Iraq has reached 4000.
2007 Eight human skulls were found in Fort Myers (Florida), and later connected to Daniel Conahan, a suspected serial killer.
2006 Xbox 360 was launched in Australia and New Zealand.
2005 A blast occurs at one of BP’s largest oil refineries, Texas City. It kills 15 people and injures more than 170.
2004 Unrest in Kosovo: A UNMIK patrol is attacked along the Pristina–Podujevo highway. One UN officer from Ghana is shot and killed. A second local officer is later killed by his wounds. Their translator is also injured but is stable.
2003 11 soldiers from the 507th Maintenance Company and 18 U.S Marines die in Nasiriyah, Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom's first major conflict. 654 Iraqi soldiers are also killed.
2002 Two to three million members of trade unions gathered in Rome to protest the labor legislation filed by Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy, and the assassination by the reformed Red Brigades of Marco Biagi (an advisor to the Labor Minister). If the legislation is not passed, labor leaders will threaten a general strike.
2001 Russian Mir space station is destroyed. It breaks up in the atmosphere and then falls into the Pacific Ocean, near Fiji.
1999 NATO launches air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This marks the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
1998 70th Academy Awards: Titanic wins 11 Oscars, Jack Nicholson best actor, Helen Hunt best actress.
1997 Mandy Patinkin in Concert, closes at Lyceum Theater, New York City
1996 Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
1995 How To Succeed in Business... opens at R Rodgers NYC for 548 performances
1994 Howard Stern formally announces his Libertarian run for New York Governor
1993 New York Knicks and Phoenix Suns get into a major brawl.
1992 Florida Marlins begin selling tickets.
1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.12 metre).
1990 Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound and pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill.
1989 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature
1987 Soap Bold and the Beautiful premieres
1986 6th Golden Raspberry Awards: Rambo; First Blood Part II wins.
1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-D mission
1984 Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa won by J Torvill and Chris Dean
1983 US President Ronald Reagan introduces Star Wars-plan
1982 Guatemala military coup under General Rios Montt, President Romeo Lucas flees.
1981 US Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls sought abortions.
1980 Shah of Iran arrives in Egypt
1979 Wings release Goodnight Tonight
1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1976 International Bill of Rights goes into effect
1975 Sue Roberts wins LPGA Bing Crosby International Golf Classic.
1973 Yoko Ono is granted permanent residence in US
1972 Evil Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars.
1971 General Alejandro Lanusse of Argentina takes power in a military coup.
1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1969 Rally for Decency held in Miami, Florida.
1968 Reverend Walter Fauntroy is first non-voting congressional delegate from Washington DC.
1966 Pope Paul VI and Arthur Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, meet in Rome.
1965 Gemini 3 launched, first US two-man space flight (Grissom and Young).
1964 UNCTAD 1 world conference opens in Geneva, Switzerland.
1963 American boxer Davey Moore dies seconds after being knocked-out in feather-weight boxing championship at age 29.
1962 JFK visits San Francisco
1960 Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit
1957 US army sells last homing pigeons.
1956 Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic Republic in Commonwealth
1954 In Vietnam, the Viet Minh capture the main airstrip of Dien Bien Phu. The remaining French Army units there are partially isolated.
1951 Wages in France increase 11 percent.
1950 Great to Be Alive opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 performances
1945 British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine
1944 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute and lives
1943 German counter-attack on US lines in Tunisia.
1942 US moves native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers.
1940 All-India-Muslim League calls for a Muslim homeland.
1939 The Hungarian air force attacks the headquarters of Slovak air force in the city of Spisska Nova Ves, kills 13 people and began the Slovak : Hungarian War.
1938 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis frees 74 Saint Louis Cardinals' minor league players.
1937 LA Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars
1936 Italy, Austria and Hungary sign Pact of Rome.
1935 Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
1934 US Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945.
1933 Kroll Opera in Berlin opens
1930 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson.
1929 First telephone installed in White House.
1926 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens outscore Pittsburgh Pirates, 6-4 in two games.
1925 Tennessee becomes first state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution.
1923 Frank Silver and Irving Conn release Yes, We Have No Bananas
1922 KMJ-AM in Fresno CA begins radio transmissions
1920 Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms.
1919 Bashkir ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted.
1917 Tornadoes kills 211 over 4 days in Midwest US
1915 Zion Mule Corp forms.
1912 Dixie Cup invented.
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.
1908 American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.
1905 Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
1903 Wright brothers obtain airplane patent.
1901 Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast.
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