Today In History
Today is Thursday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2023. There are 283 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On March 23, 1919, Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy.
ON THIS DATE
› 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 3 blasted 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 75 people 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 (James Cameron) and song (“My Heart Will Go On”).
› 2010: President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, a $938 billion health care overhaul.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Movie director Mark Rydell is 94. International Motorsports Hall of Famer Craig Breedlove is 86. Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is
71. Singer Chaka Khan is 70. Actor Amanda Plummer is 66. Actor Catherine Keener is 64. Actor Hope Davis is 59. Actor Richard Grieco is
58. Actor Marin Hinkle is
57. Rock singer-musician Damon Albarn (Blur) is
55. Actor Kelly Perine is
54. Actor-singer Melissa Errico is 53. Rock musician John Humphrey (The Nixons) is 53. Bandleader Reggie Watts (TV: “The Late Late Show With James Corden”) is
51. Actor Randall Park is 49. Actor Michelle Monaghan is 47. Actor Keri Russell is 47. Actor Anastasia Griffith is 45. Actor Nicholle Tom is 45. Actor Brandon Dirden is
45. Country singer Brett Young is 42. Actor Nicolas Wright is 41. Actor Ben Rappaport is 37. NBA point guard Kyrie Irving is 31.