23 March

1430       Margaret of Anjou (born) (died 1482)

1555       Pope Julius III (died) (born 1487)

1599       Thomas Selle (born), German composer (died 1663)

1675       Anthoni van Noordt (died), Dutch organist and composer (born 1619)

1699       John Bartram (born), American botanist and explorer (died 1777)

1749       Pierre-Simon Laplace (born), French mathematician and astronomer (died 1827)

1769       William Smith (born), English geologist and cartographer (died 1839)

1775       American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech “Give me Liberty, or give me Death!” at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.

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.

1821       Greek War of Independence: Battle and fall of city of Kalamata.

1857       Elisha Otis’s first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.

1868      The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.

1887      Felix Yusupov (born), Russian assassin of Grigori Rasputin (died 1967)

1888      In England, The Football League, the world’s oldest professional Association Football league, meets for the first time.

1900      Erich Fromm (born), German psychologist and sociologist (died 1980)

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.

1910       Akira Kurosawa (born), Japanese director, screenwriter, and producer (died 1998)

1912       Wernher von Braun (born), German physicist and engineer (died 1977)

1919       In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.

1921       Donald Campbell (born), English race car driver (died 1967)

1924       Bette Nesmith Graham (born), American inventor, invented Liquid Paper (died 1980)

1929       Roger Bannister (born), English runner

1933       The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.

1937       Craig Breedlove (born), American race car driver

1942       World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands.

1949       Ric Ocasek (born), American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Cars)

1953       Chaka Khan (born), American singer-songwriter (Rufus)

1954       Kenneth Cole (born), American fashion designer, founded Kenneth Cole Productions

1956       Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world.  (Republic Day in Pakistan)

1962       NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace initiative.

1965       NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States’ first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).

1976       Ricardo Zonta (born), Brazilian race car driver

1983 –President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.

1989       Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce their discovery of cold fusion at the University of Utah.

2001      The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.

2002      Eileen Farrell (died), American soprano (born 1920)

2003      Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq.

2005      Texas City Refinery explosion: During a test on a distillation tower liquid waste builds up and flows out of a blowout tower. Waste fumes ignite and explode killing 15 workers.

2011       Elizabeth Taylor (died), English-American actress (born 1932)

2013       Joe Weider (died), Canadian-American bodybuilder and publisher, co-founded the International Federation of Body Building & Fitness and Muscle & Fitness Magazine (born 1919)

 

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Interests include biological anthropology, evolution, social behavior, and human behavior. Conducted field research in the Tana River National Primate Reserve, Kenya and on Angaur, Palau, Micronesia, as well as research with captive nonhuman primates at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and the Institute for Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya.
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