March 23
Today is the 82nd day of 2017, there are 283 days left in the year.
1775 - Patrick Henry made his famous declaration in an address to the Virginia Provincial Convention in which he said: "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
1806 - Lewis and Clark began their return journey east from their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase after reaching the Pacific coast..
1919 - Benito Mussolini founded his own party in Italy, the Fasci di Combattimento.
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.
1956 - Pakistan became an Islamic republic.
1965 - America's first two-person space mission took place as Gemini 3 blasted off with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard for a nearly 5-hour flight.
1973 - Before sentencing a group of Watergate break-in defendants, Chief U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica read aloud a letter he received from James W. McCord Jr. which said there was "political pressure" to "plead guilty and remain silent".
1981 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teenage girls seek abortions.
1983 - President Ronald Reagan proposed a space-based missile defense system called the Strategic Defense Initiative, or "Star Wars".
1983 - Dr. Barney Clark, recipient of the world's first artificial heart, died at the University of Utah Medical Center after 112 days with the device.
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 the jetliner to go out of control.
1998 - The motion picture epic "Titanic" won 11 Oscars at the 70th Academy Awards, tying it with "Ben-Hur" for the most ever won by a single film. (The record was tied again in 2003 by "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King".)
2001 - Russia's Mir space station ended its 15-year orbit of the Earth, splashing down in the South Pacific.
2003 - A U.S. Army convoy was ambushed in Iraq with 11 killed and seven captured, including Pfc. Jessica Lynch.
2010 - President Barack Obama signed a $938 billion health-care overhaul bill, called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, into law, the most sweeping piece of federal legislation since Medicare was passed in 1965.
2011 - Academy Award winning actress Elizabeth Taylor died in Los Angeles at age 79.
2012 - The U.S. Army formally charged Staff Sgt. Robert Bales with 17 counts of premeditated murder in the deaths of 17 villagers, more than half of them children, during a shooting rampage in southern Afghanistan.
Birthdays
25 - Kyrie Irving (basketball player)
25 - Vanessa Morgan (actress)
27 - Gordon Hayward (basketball player)
30 - Jessica Marie Garcia (actress)
31 - Brett Eldredge (country singer)
33 - Brandon Marshall (football player)
34 - Mo Farah (runner)
37 - Russell Howard (comedian)
39 - Perez Hilton (blogger)
41 - Keri Russell (actress)
41 - Michelle Monaghan (actress)
44 - Jason Kidd (basketball player)
64 - Chaka Khan (R&B singer)
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Today in Sports History - March 23
1946 - Oklahoma A&M (Oklahoma State) defeats North Carolina 43-40 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1952 - Bill Mosienko of the Chicago Blackhawks scored the fastest hat trick in NHL history, scoring three goals in 21 seconds.
1956 - San Francisco defeats Iowa 83-71 to win a second consecutive NCAA Tournament.
1957 - North Carolina defeats Kansas 54-53 in triple overtime to win the NCAA Tournament.
1963 - Loyola defeats Cincinnati 60-58 in overtime to win the NCAA Tournament.
1968 - UCLA defeats North Carolina 78-55 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1971 - The NFL's Boston Patriots announced they were changing their name to the New England Patriots.
1991 - The first World League of American Football games are played. The London Monarchs defeated the Frankfurt Galaxy 24-11 and the Montreal Machine defeated the Birmingham Fire 20-5.
1994 - Wayne Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings broke Gordie Howe's NHL career record with his 802nd goal.
1994 - Richard Jacobs buys the naming rights for the Cleveland Indians' new ballpark for $13.8 million (the field became known as Jacobs Field).
1995 - Jaromir Jagr of the Pittsburgh Penguins became the first European-born player to lead the NHL in scoring.
2009 - Japan defeats South Korea 5-3 to win the World Baseball Classic in Los Angeles.
Today is the 82nd day of 2017, there are 283 days left in the year.
1775 - Patrick Henry made his famous declaration in an address to the Virginia Provincial Convention in which he said: "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
1806 - Lewis and Clark began their return journey east from their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase after reaching the Pacific coast..
1919 - Benito Mussolini founded his own party in Italy, the Fasci di Combattimento.
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.
1956 - Pakistan became an Islamic republic.
1965 - America's first two-person space mission took place as Gemini 3 blasted off with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard for a nearly 5-hour flight.
1973 - Before sentencing a group of Watergate break-in defendants, Chief U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica read aloud a letter he received from James W. McCord Jr. which said there was "political pressure" to "plead guilty and remain silent".
1981 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teenage girls seek abortions.
1983 - President Ronald Reagan proposed a space-based missile defense system called the Strategic Defense Initiative, or "Star Wars".
1983 - Dr. Barney Clark, recipient of the world's first artificial heart, died at the University of Utah Medical Center after 112 days with the device.
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 the jetliner to go out of control.
1998 - The motion picture epic "Titanic" won 11 Oscars at the 70th Academy Awards, tying it with "Ben-Hur" for the most ever won by a single film. (The record was tied again in 2003 by "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King".)
2001 - Russia's Mir space station ended its 15-year orbit of the Earth, splashing down in the South Pacific.
2003 - A U.S. Army convoy was ambushed in Iraq with 11 killed and seven captured, including Pfc. Jessica Lynch.
2010 - President Barack Obama signed a $938 billion health-care overhaul bill, called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, into law, the most sweeping piece of federal legislation since Medicare was passed in 1965.
2011 - Academy Award winning actress Elizabeth Taylor died in Los Angeles at age 79.
2012 - The U.S. Army formally charged Staff Sgt. Robert Bales with 17 counts of premeditated murder in the deaths of 17 villagers, more than half of them children, during a shooting rampage in southern Afghanistan.
Birthdays
25 - Kyrie Irving (basketball player)
25 - Vanessa Morgan (actress)
27 - Gordon Hayward (basketball player)
30 - Jessica Marie Garcia (actress)
31 - Brett Eldredge (country singer)
33 - Brandon Marshall (football player)
34 - Mo Farah (runner)
37 - Russell Howard (comedian)
39 - Perez Hilton (blogger)
41 - Keri Russell (actress)
41 - Michelle Monaghan (actress)
44 - Jason Kidd (basketball player)
64 - Chaka Khan (R&B singer)
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Today in Sports History - March 23
1946 - Oklahoma A&M (Oklahoma State) defeats North Carolina 43-40 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1952 - Bill Mosienko of the Chicago Blackhawks scored the fastest hat trick in NHL history, scoring three goals in 21 seconds.
1956 - San Francisco defeats Iowa 83-71 to win a second consecutive NCAA Tournament.
1957 - North Carolina defeats Kansas 54-53 in triple overtime to win the NCAA Tournament.
1963 - Loyola defeats Cincinnati 60-58 in overtime to win the NCAA Tournament.
1968 - UCLA defeats North Carolina 78-55 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1971 - The NFL's Boston Patriots announced they were changing their name to the New England Patriots.
1991 - The first World League of American Football games are played. The London Monarchs defeated the Frankfurt Galaxy 24-11 and the Montreal Machine defeated the Birmingham Fire 20-5.
1994 - Wayne Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings broke Gordie Howe's NHL career record with his 802nd goal.
1994 - Richard Jacobs buys the naming rights for the Cleveland Indians' new ballpark for $13.8 million (the field became known as Jacobs Field).
1995 - Jaromir Jagr of the Pittsburgh Penguins became the first European-born player to lead the NHL in scoring.
2009 - Japan defeats South Korea 5-3 to win the World Baseball Classic in Los Angeles.
