TODAY IN HISTORY

WEDNESDAY MAR 23, 2022

1919

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

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!”

1806

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

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 3blasted off with astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom and John W. Young aboard for a nearly 5-hour flight.

1981

The U.S. Supreme Court, in H.L. v. Matheson, ruled that states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teenage girls seek abortions.

1993

Scientists announced they’d found the renegade gene that causes Huntington’s disease.

1994

Aeroflot Flight 593, an Airbus A310, crashed in Siberia with the loss of all 75people on board; it turned out that a pilot’s teenage son who was allowed to sit at the controls had accidentally disengaged the autopilot, causing loss of control.

1998

“Titanic” tied an Academy Awards record by winning 11 Oscars, including best picture, director and song.

2003

During the Iraq War, a U.S. Army maintenance convoy was ambushed in Nasiriyah; 11 soldiers were killed, including Pfc. Lori Ann Piestewa; six were captured, including Pfc. Jessica Lynch, who was rescued on April 1, 2003.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Movie director Mark Rydell is 93. International Motorsports Hall of Famer Craig Breedlove is 85. Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is 70. Singer Chaka Khan is

69. Actor Amanda Plummer is 65. Actor Catherine Keener is 63. Actor Hope Davis is

58. Actor Richard Grieco is

57. Actor Marin Hinkle is 56. Rock singer-musician Damon Albarn (Blur) is 54. Actor Kelly Perine is 53.