TODAY in HISTORY
Today is Wednesday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2017. There are 283 days left in the year.
1400 The Tran dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after 175 years of rule, by Ho Quý Ly, a court official.
1568 The Peace of Longjumeau signed, ending the second phase of the French Wars of Religion.
1801 Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, strangled, and trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael’s Castle.
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.
1879 War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.
1885 Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hung Hóa, northern Vietnam.
1888 In England, The Football League, the world’s oldest professional association football league, meets for first time.
1889 The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, British India.
1919 In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
1931 Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian struggle for independence.
1933 The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
1935 Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
1956 Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan) 1965 NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States’ first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
1977 The first of The Nixon Interviews are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former US President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.
1996 Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
1999 Gunmen assassinate Paraguay’s Vice President Luis María Argaña.
2001 The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
2003 Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during Iraq invasion.