Today in history: Mar. 23
In 1965, America’s first two-person space mission took place as Gemini 3 blasted off with astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom and John W. Young aboard for a nearly 5-hour flight.
1806: Meriwether Lewis
In 1806, explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, began their journey back east.
1919: Benito Mussolini
On March 23, 1919, Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy.
1933: Enabling Act
In 1933, the German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act, which effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.
1942: Internment camp
In 1942, the first Japanese-Americans evacuated by the U.S. Army during World War II arrived at the internment camp in Manzanar, California.
1965: Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom
In 1965, America’s first two-person space mission took place as Gemini 3 blasted off with astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom and John W. Young aboard for a nearly 5-hour flight.
1998: James Cameron
In 1998, “Titanic” tied an Academy Awards record by winning 11 Oscars, including best picture, director (James Cameron) and song (“My Heart Will Go On”).
2010: Barack Obama
In 2010, claiming a historic triumph, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, a $938 billion health care overhaul.
2012: Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI landed in Mexico to throngs of faithful who lined more than 20 miles of his route into the city of Leon.
2020: Boris Johnson
Britain became the latest European country to go into effective lockdown, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered the closure of most retail stores and banned public gatherings.
2021: Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli voters took part in parliamentary elections that would leave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu without a majority, forcing him from office.
2021: George Segal
George Segal, nominated for an Oscar for his role in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” died in California at 87; he had worked into his late 80s on the ABC sitcom “The Goldbergs.”
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