23 Mairch

The 23rd o Mairch is the 82nt day o the year (83rd in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 283 days ti come.

Events

1935: Signing o the Constitution o the Philippines

• 1708 – James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth o Forth.
• 1801 – Tsar Paul I o Roushie is struck wi a swuird, then strangled, an finally trampled tae daith inside his bedruim at St. Michael's Castle.
• 1888 – The Inglis Fitbaa League is foondit.
• 1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enablin Act o 1933, makin Adolf Hitler dictator o Germany.
• 1935 – The Constitution o the Commonweel o the Philippines is signed.
• 1956 – Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the warld.
• 1965 – NASA launches the Gemini 3 spacecraft.
• 1982 – Guatemala's govrenment, heidit bi Fernando Romeo Lucas García is owerthrown in a militar coup bi richt-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.
• 2001 – Roushie space station Mir is disposed o.
• 2003 – Voters in Slovenie approve o entry tae the European Union an NATO.
• 2013 – Pape Francis an umwhile Pape Benedict XVI meet at Castel Gandolfo, Italy.

Births

Akira Kurosawa

• 1749 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathemateecian an astronomer (d. 1827)
• 1858 - Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist (d. 1941)
• 1881 - Roger Martin du Gard, French writer (d. 1958)
• 1881 - Hermann Staudinger, German chemist (d. 1965)
• 1882 - Emmy Noether, German-American mathemateecian an pheesicist (d. 1935)
• 1887 - Juan Gris, Spaingie penter (d. 1927)
• 1900 - Erich Fromm, German social psychologist an philosopher (d. 1980)
• 1905 - Joan Crawford, American actress (d. 1977)
• 1910 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director an producer (d. 1998)
• 1912 - Wernher von Braun, German-American aerospace ingineer (d. 1977)
• 1929 - Roger Bannister, Inglis runner
• 1952 - Rex Tillerson, American ile executive an 69nt Unitit States Secretar o State
• 1953 - Chaka Khan, American sangster
• 1953 - Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Inglish politeecian
• 1956 - José Manuel Barroso, Portugusese politeecian
• 1960 - Nicol Stephen, Scots politeecian
• 1962 - Steve Redgrave, Inglis rower
• 1968 - Fernando Hierro, Spaingie fitbawer
• 1970 - Gianni Infantino, 9t Preses o FIFA
• 1971 - Gail Porter, Scots televeesion presenter
• 1972 - Joe Calzaghe, Welsh boxer
• 1973 - Jerzy Dudek, Pols fitbawer
• 1976 - Chris Hoy, Scots cyclist
• 1978 - Walter Samuel, Argentine fitbawer
• 1983 - Mo Farah, Somali-born Inglis runner
• 1990 - Princess Eugenie o York

Daiths

• 1555 – Pape Julius III (b. 1487)
• 1801 – Paul I o Roushie (b. 1754)
• 1842 – Stendhal, French writer (b. 1783)
• 2011 – Elizabeth Taylor, Inglis-American actress (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Adolfo Suarez, Prime meenister o Spain (b. 1932)
• 2015 – Lee Kuan Yew, 1st Prime meenister o Singapore (b. 1923)

Halidays

• Pakistan Day
• Seicont-earliest possible date for Pace (last in 2008)
• Earliest-possible date for Pace Monday