Today in history | Way of life
Today is Tuesday March 23, the 82nd day of 2021. There are 283 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry delivered a speech at the Virginia Provincial Convention in which he reportedly said: “Give me freedom or give me death!”
To this date:
In 1792, Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 94 in G major (the “Surprise” Symphony) had its first public performance in London.
In 1806, explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, began their journey east.
In 1919, Benito Mussolini founded his fascist political movement in Milan, Italy.
In 1933, the German Reichstag passed the enabling law, which effectively granted dictatorial powers to Adolf Hitler.
In 1942, the first Japanese Americans evacuated by the US military during World War II arrived at the Manzanar internment camp in California.
In 1965, America’s first two-person space mission took place as Gemini 3 took off with astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom and John W. Young on board for a flight of nearly 5 hours.
In 1973, before convicting a group of Watergate break-ins, U.S. District Chief Justice John J. Sirica read aloud a letter he had received from James W. McCord Jr. that said there had “political pressure” to “plead guilty and remain silent.” “
In 1993, scientists announced that they had found the renegade gene responsible for Huntington’s disease.
In 2001The orbiting Russian space station Mir ended its 15-year odyssey with a planned fiery dive in the South Pacific.
In 2003, during the Iraq war, an American army maintenance convoy was ambushed in Nasiriyah (nah-sih-REE’-uh); 11 soldiers were killed, including the Pfc. Lori Ann Piestewa (py-ES’-tuh-wah); six were captured, including Pfc. Jessica Lynch, who was rescued on April 1, 2003.
In 2004, a federal commission concluded that officials in the Clinton and Bush administration engaged in lengthy and ultimately unsuccessful diplomatic efforts instead of military action to try to get Osama bin Laden ahead of the 9/11 attacks; Senior Bush officials retorted that the terrorist attacks would have taken place even if the United States had killed the al-Qaida leader.
In 2010, claiming a historic triumph, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, a $ 938 billion healthcare overhaul.
Ten years ago: Oscar winner Elizabeth Taylor died in Los Angeles at the age of 79. NATO ships began patrolling off the Libyan coast as aggressive airstrikes, missiles and rebels forced Moamer Gaddafi’s tanks to retreat from two key cities in the west. An explosion blamed on Palestinian militants devastated a bus stop in Jerusalem, killing Mary Jean Gardner, a 59-year-old British tourist, and injuring two dozen others, including five Americans. Army CPS. Jeremy Morlock pleaded guilty at his court martial at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state to the murders of three unarmed Afghan civilians (he was sentenced to 24 years in prison).
Five years ago: President Barack Obama, during a state visit to repair fences in Buenos Aires, presented Argentina as an emerging world leader worthy of the support of the United States, as he and President Mauricio Macri have broken down with years of tensions between their countries. Death claimed former baseball player-turned-broadcaster Joe Garagiola at 90 and actor Ken Howard at 71.
One year ago: President Donald Trump has said he wants to reopen the country to business in weeks, not months; he claimed that continued closures could result in more deaths than the coronavirus itself. Britain has become the last European country to be effectively locked down, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordering most retail stores to close and banning public gatherings. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced plans to convert a New York convention center into a 1,000-bed hospital. The Federal Reserve has launched its most daring effort to date to protect the US economy from the coronavirus; the Fed would buy both government and corporate debt. An Arizona health system said a Phoenix-area man died and his wife was in critical condition after the couple took chloroquine phosphate, an additive used to clean aquariums; President Donald Trump had falsely stated days earlier that the Food and Drug Administration had approved the use of the antimalarial drug chloroquine to treat the coronavirus.
Today’s birthdays: Director Mark Rydell is 92 years old. International Motorsport Hall of Fame Craig Breedlove is 84 years old. Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is 69. Singer Chaka Khan is 68 years old. Actor Amanda Plummer is 64 years old. Actor Catherine Keener is 62 years old. Actor Hope Davis is 57 years old. . Actor Richard Grieco is 56 years old. Actor Marin Hinkle is 55 years old. Singer-musician Damon Albarn (Blur) is 53 years old. Actor Kelly Perine is 52 years old. Actor-singer Melissa Errico and musician John Humphrey (The Nixons) are 51 years old. Conductor Reggie Watts (TV: “The Late Late Show With James Corden”) is 49 years old. Actor Randall Park is 47 years old. Actors Michelle Monaghan and Keri Russell are 45 years old. Actors Anastasia Griffith, Nicholle Tom and Brandon Dirden and columnist-blogger Perez Hilton are 43 years old. Country singer Brett Young is 40 years old. Actor Nicolas Wright is 39 years old. Actor Ben Rappaport is 35 years old. NBA playmaker Kyrie Irving is 29.