A belated selective cut and pasted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_23:
1775 - American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his famous speech - "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" - at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia.
1903 - The Wright Brothers apply for a patent on their invention of one of the first successful airplanes.
1919 - In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
1935 - Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
1983 - Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
2001 - The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
2003 - In Nasiriyah, Iraq, 11 soldiers of the 507th Maintenance Company as well as 18 U.S. Marines are killed during the first major conflict of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
1910 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (d. 1998)
1931 - Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess player
Korchnoi's matches with Anatoly Karpov for the World Championship is the stuff of legends.
1949 - Ric Ocasek, American musician (The Cars)
1980's music!!!!!
1950 - Anthony De Longis, American actor
Martial artist known as a whip expert as well as other weapons. Usually cast as a villain in the movies and IIRC, he trained Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford on the whip.
1953 - Chaka Khan, American singer
More 1980's music!! :-)
1965 - Richard Grieco, American actor and singer
1980's TV!!! Grieco played Booker from 21 Jump Street, and had a short-lived spinoff series called Booker.
1964 - Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born actor (b. 1904)
Too many movies to his credit, but possibly, the best-known work he did was with Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, and Sidney Greenstreet in the film noir classic THE MALTESE FALCON.
2009 - Raúl Macías, A famous Mexican boxer (b. 1934)
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