Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 23

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  Tsar Paul I of Russia
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  Tsar Alexander I of Russia
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  Adolf Hitler c. 1933
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  Gemini 3 insignia
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  Patrick Henry
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  William McGregor
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  Eleftherios Venizelos
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  Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
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  Mir space station
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  Kowloon Walled City
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  Flag of Sardinia with Italian tricolor

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Blurb	Reason
; Day of Hungarian–Polish Friendship in Hungary and Poland	refimprove section
Pakistan Day (1956)	multiple issues
1801 – Tsar [[Alexander I of Russia|Template:Nowrap]] acceded to the Russian throne after his father [[Paul I of Russia|Template:Nowrap]] was murdered in his bedroom at Saint Michael's Castle.	Alexander: lots of CN tags (29); Paul: lots of CN tags (9) esp in one section, plus many other paragraphs without citations
1848 – Scottish settlers on the John Wickliffe, captained by William Cargill, arrived at present-day Port Chalmers in Otago, New Zealand.	tagged
1868 – Governor of California Henry Huntly Haight signed a law establishing the University of California, today a public university system that is considered a model for public institutions across the United States.	refimprove section
1879 – Fighting in the War of the Pacific between Chile and a Peruvian–Bolivian alliance opened with the Battle of Topáter.	undue weight, original research refimprove section
1889 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founded the Ahmadiyya Islamic religious movement in British India.	improve citations
1933 – The Enabling Act was passed, essentially giving German Chancellor Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers by granting him and the Cabinet the authority to enact laws without the participation of the Reichstag.	refimprove section
1940 – Pakistan Movement: During its three-day general session, the Muslim League drafted the Lahore Resolution, calling for greater autonomy in British India.	refimprove section
1965 – NASA launched Gemini 3, the first American two-person space flight.	refimprove
1978 – The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon was dispatched to confirm Israeli withdrawal after its invasion nine days earlier.	unreferenced section
1983 – The initial proposal to develop the Strategic Defense Initiative, a ground-based and space-based system to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles, was released.	refimprove section
1994 – Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta was assassinated during a meeting on his presidential campaign in Tijuana.	multiple issues
2001 – The Russian space agency deorbited the space station Mir, causing it to reenter the Earth's atmosphere and break up over the Pacific Ocean.	refimprove
2006 – The remaining three Christian Peacemaker Teams hostages were rescued from their Iraqi captors by a multinational force.	refimprove
2007 – The Iranian military arrested 15 Royal Navy personnel, claiming that they had entered Iran's territorial waters.	improve citations
Zhou Chi |d|851	Wikisource page that was source for death date has been deleted
Emmy Noether |b|1882	refimprove section
Moses Malone |b|1955|	Birthday not cited

Eligible

• 1400 – After 175 years of rule, the Trần dynasty of Vietnam was deposed by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
• 1775 – American Revolution: Patrick Henry made his "Give me liberty or give me death!" speech to the House of Burgesses of Virginia, urging military action against the British Empire.
• 1839 – An earthquake struck central Burma, causing significant damage and killing an estimated 300 to 400 people.
• 1848 – The Italian tricolour is adopted for the flag of the Kingdom of Sardinia by Charles Albert of Sardinia during the First Italian War of Independence.
• 1862 – American Civil War: General Stonewall Jackson of the Confederate States Army lost the First Battle of Kernstown, but was still able to prevent the Union Army from reinforcing the Peninsula campaign.
• 1905 – About 1,500 Cretans, led by Eleftherios Venizelos, met at the village of Theriso to call for the island's unification with Greece, beginning the Theriso revolt.
• 1908 – American diplomat Durham Stevens, an employee of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was fatally shot in San Francisco by two Korean immigrants unhappy with his support of increased Japanese presence in Korea.
• 1919 – Benito Mussolini and his supporters founded the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, the predecessor of the National Fascist Party.
• 1933 – The Nazi Party took the first step in the Gleichschaltung process by having the Enabling Act passed, giving the government the right to make laws without the involvement of the Reichstag.
• 1977 – British journalist David Frost began a series of interviews with former U.S. president Richard Nixon, starting with the Watergate scandal.
• 1991 – The Sierra Leone Civil War began with the invasion of the Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, in an attempt to overthrow President Joseph Saidu Momoh.
• 1993 – The demolition of Kowloon Walled City (pictured), a densely crowded slum in Hong Kong, began.
• 1996 – Lee Teng-hui (pictured) was elected President of the Republic of China in the first direct presidential election in Taiwan.
• Born/died this day: | Jahanara Begum |b|1614| Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado |b|1643| Nathaniel Reed |b|1862|Calouste Gulbenkian |b|1869| Juan Gris |b|1887| Hovhannes Tumanyan |d|1923| Henri Berény |d|1932| Said Nursî |d|1960| Beatrice Tinsley |d|1981| Mo Farah |b|1983| Ben Hollioake |d|2002

Notes

• 1978 South Lebanon conflict appears on March 14, so UNIFL should not appear in the same year
• Lakeview Gusher appears on March 14, so Texas City should not appear in the same year

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• 1888 – Chaired by William McGregor, a meeting of ten English football clubs was held in London, eventually resulting in the establishment of the Football League.
• 1931 – Bhagat Singh (pictured), one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement, and two others were executed by the British authorities for their murder of a police officer.
• 1989 – Two researchers announced the discovery of cold fusion, a claim that was later discredited.
• 1994 – Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into a hillside in Russia's Kemerovo Oblast, killing all 75 people on board, after the pilot's 15-year-old son unknowingly disabled the autopilot while seated at the controls.
• 2005 – A fire and explosion at an oil refinery in Texas City, the third-largest in the United States, killed 15 workers.