What are the important events that happened on March 23? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 23: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 23 is the 82^nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 283 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 10, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,044,800 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘octacontadigon’ day.

Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 331 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,475 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 23 Historical Events

• 1775 –
  American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – “Give me Liberty, or give me Death!” – at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia.
• 1857 –
  Elisha Otis’s first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
• 1905 –
  Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete’s union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
• 1908 –
  American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.
• 1931 –
  Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for murder during the Indian struggle for independence.
• 1933 –
  The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
• 1935 –
  Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
• 1965 –
  NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States’ first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
• 1991 –
  The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.
• 1994 –
  A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.

Who were born on March 23?

• 1769 –
  Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (d. 1832)
• 1858 –
  Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1941)
• 1868 –
  Dietrich Eckart, early supporter of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party and member of Thule Society (d. 1923)
• 1882 –
  Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d. 1935)
• 1887 –
  Juan Gris, Spanish artist (d. 1927)
• 1950 –
  Corinne Clery, French actress
• 1953 –
  Bo Díaz, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1990)
• 1958 –
  Michael Sorich, American voice actor, writer and director
• 1980 –
  Itay Tiran, Israeli actor
• 1981 –
  Tony Peña, Jr., Dominican baseball player

Who died on March 23?

• 1653 –
  Johan van Galen, Dutch naval officer (b. 1604)
• 1742 –
  Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French writer (b. 1670)
• 1748 –
  Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist, and composer (b. 1684)
• 1927 –
  Paul César Helleu, French artist (b. 1859)
• 1931 –
  Bhagat Singh (b. 1907), Rajguru (b. 1908), Sukhdev (b. 1907) Indian freedom fighters
• 1935 –
  Florence Moore, American actress (b. 1886)
• 1965 –
  Mae Murray, American actress (b. 1889)
• 1972 –
  Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer (b. 1895)
• 2004 –
  Rupert Hamer, Australian politician (b. 1916)
• 2006 –
  David B. Bleak, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932)