TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT March 23, 1775

Patrick Henry delivered an address to the Virginia Provincial Convention in which he is said to have declared, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”

ALSO ON THIS DATE 1792

Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 94 in G Major had its first public performance in London.

1806

Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, began their journey back east.

1914

The first installment of “The Perils of Pauline,” the silent film serial starring Pearl White, premiered in the greater New York City area.

1933

The German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act, which effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.

1942

The first Japanese-Americans evacuated by the U.S. Army during World War II arrived at the internment camp in Manzanar, California.

1965

America’s first two-person space mission took place as Gemini 3 blasted off with astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom and John W. Young aboard for a nearly 5-hour flight.

1968

UCLA defeated North Carolina, 78-55, to win college basketball’s NCAA championship.