TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2019

On this day in history:

1026 - Koenraad II crowned himself king of Italy.

1066 - The 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet took place.

1490 - The first dated edition of Maimonides Mishna Torah was published.

1657 - France and England formed an alliance against Spain.

1808 - Napoleon’s brother Joseph took the throne of Spain.

1835 - Charles Darwin reached Los Arenales, in the Andes.

1848 - Hungary proclaimed its independence of Austria.

1881 - The Boers and Britain signed a peace accord ending the first Boer war.

1902 - In Italy, the minimum legal working age was raised from 9 to 12 for boys and from 11 to 15 for girls.

1903 - The earliest version of the board game Monopoly is developed.

1919 - Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy.

1942 - The Japanese occupy the Andaman Islands.

1996 - Taiwan held its first democratic presidential elections.

1998 - Germany’s largest bank pledged $3.1 million to Jewish foundations as restitution for Nazi looting.

1998 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin fired his Cabinet. BIRTHDAYS

Erich Fromm 1900 German-American psychologist and humanistic philosopher Joan Crawford 1905 - Actress Akira Kurosawa 1910 Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter Johnny Guarnieri 1917 Musician

Marty Allen 1922 - Comedian Martha Wright 1926 - Actress Roger Gilbert Bannister 1929 Neurologist, British athlete, first man to run the mile in less than four minutes Monique Van Vooren 1933 Actress

Mark Rydell 1934 - Director Ric Ocasek 1949 - Musician (The Cars), producer Chaka Khan 1953 - Singer Amanda Plummer 1957 Actress

Richard Grieco 1965 - Actor Hope Davis 1964 - Actress Marti Pellow 1966 - Musician (Wet, Wet, Wet)