Birthdates Which Occur on March 23

[Kevin Le]

Birthdates Which Occur on March 23:
1966 27 Marti Pellow rocker (Wet, Wet, Wet)
1965 28 Richard Grieco actor (21 Jump Street)
1957 36 Amanda Plummer NYC, actress (Hotel New Hampshire, Dollmaker)
1954 39 Moses Malone NBA all-star (Philadelphia 76ers)
1952 41 Teofilo Stevenson Cuba, heavywght boxer (Olympic gold 1972, '76, '80)
1951 42 Ron Jaworski NFL quarterback (Philadelphia, Kansas City)
1950 43 Corrine Clery Paris, actress (Moonraker, Yor)
1943 50 Gail Goodrich NBA star (Lakers, Suns)
and Chaka Khan Great Lakes, Ill., rocker (Rufus)
1937 56 Craig Breedlove Los Angeles, auto-racing champion
1931 62 Viktor Korchnoi Leningrad, chess grandmaster
1926 67 Martha Wright Seattle, singer (Let's Dance, The Martha Wright Show)
1923 70 Arnie Weinmeister AAFC, NFL defensive tackle (NY Yankees, Giants)
1922 71 Marty Allen comedian (Allen & Rossi)
1917 76 Johnny Guarnieri NYC, jazz pianist, composer (Breakthrough)
and Kenneth Tobey actor (The Thing, Strange Invaders)
1912 81 Alfred Schwarzmann Germany, gymnast (2 Olympic gold 1936)
and John Payne Roanoke, Va., actor (Dodsworth, The Razor's Edge)
and Wernher von Braun Wirsitz, Ger., rocket expert (I Aim at the Stars)
1911 82 Richard Chapman golfer (1940 US amateur, 1951 British amateur)
1910 83 Akira Kurosawa Tokyo, movie director (7 Samurai)
1908 85 Joan Crawford movie actress (Strange Cargo, Mildred Pierce)
1907 86 Daniel Bovet Swiss pharmacologist (Nobel 1957)
1900 93 Erich Fromm Frankfurt, psychoanalyst, writer (The Art of Loving)
1887 106 Juan Gris Spain, Cubist painter (Still Life Before an Open Window)
and Sidney Hillman union leader
1881 112 Roger Martin du Gard Fr. novelist, dramatist (Les Thibault-Nobel '37)
and Hermann Staudinger German chemist, plastics researcher (Nobel 1953)
1876 117 Sir Muirhead Bone Scotland, etcher, engraver
1868 125 Fiddlin' John Carson musician
1857 136 Fannie Farmer Boston, cooking expert, namesake of a candy company
1823 170 Schuyler Colfax (R) 17th US VP (1869-73)
1769 224 William Smith English surveyor, geologist, stratigrapher
1749 244 Pierre-Simon marquis de Laplace, mathematician, astronomer, physicist
1699 294 John Bartram naturalist, explorer, father of American botany

Deaths Which Occured March 23:
1985 8 The Singing Nun commits suicide in Belgium
1983 10 Dr. Barney Clark 1st artificial heart recipient, dies after 112 days
1961 32 Valentin Bondarenko Soviet cosmonaut, killed in a training accident
1786 207 Patience Wright 1st American woman pro artist, dies at about 61
1603 390 Elizabeth I last Tudor monarch of England, dies at 69

Holidays Which Occur March 23:
World Meteorological Day, a UN observance
Roman Tubilustrium; purification of war trumpets; a. d. x Kal. Apr.

Religious Observances on March 23:
484 Feast of St. Victorian & Other African Martyrs, c. 484 CE (RC)
332 Gregory the Illuminator, bp., missionary of Armenia, c. 332 (Ang)
Mem. of St. Turibius of Mogrovejo, archbp of Lima, 1606 (opt) (RC)

Things to Remember for March 23:
Flowers - Jonquil, Violet & Daffodil Gems - Bloodstone & Aquamarine
27 Days Astrological sign: Aries
1 Day March Geminid meteor shower, radiant near Geminorum

Highlights in History Which Occur March 23:
1917 76 4 day series of tonadoes kills 211 in Midwest U.S.
1989 4 Asteroid 1989 FC misses earth by a mere 800,000 km!
and Room-temperature sustained nuclear fusion reported, Univ. of Utah
1976 17 International Bill of Rights, ratified by 35 nations, goes into effect
1969 24 World's longest bridge, 38.4 km, opens over Lake Pontchartrain, La.
1965 28 Gemini 3 launched - 1st US 2-man space flight (Grissom & Young)
1956 37 Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (Nat'l Day)
1952 41 Bill Mosienko (Chicago) scores 3 NHL goals in 21 sec vs. NY Rangers
and Rangers with less than 14 minutes to go blow a 6-2 lead, losing 7-6 to
Chicago Black Hawks - Mosienko scores 3 times in 21 seconds
1950 43 World Meteorological Organization established by UN
1944 49 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute & lives
1942 51 Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean
1940 53 All-India-Muslim league calls for a Muslim homeland
1937 56 Los Angeles Railway Co. starts using PCC streetcars
1933 60 German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers
1925 68 Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching of evolution
1919 74 Benito Mussolini founds Fascist movement in Milan
1910 83 1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st US auto speedway)
1903 90 Wright brothers obtain airplane patent
1901 92 Dame Nellie Melba reveals secret of her now famous toast
1880 113 Flour rolling mill patented by John Stevens of Wisconsin
1873 120 Slavery is abolish in Puerto Rico
1862 131 Battle of Kernstown, Va. - Jackson begins his Valley Campaign
1858 135 Cable car patented by Eleazer Gardner of Philadelphia
1848 145 Milan revolts against the Austrians
1832 161 British Parliament passes 1st Reform Bill, enfranchising middle class
1806 187 Lewis & Clark leave Pacific coast for return journey
1775 218 Patrick Henry asks for "liberty or death"
1752 241 Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias; dies 2 days later
1743 250 George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premiers in London
1657 336 France & England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk
1066 927 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

That's all for TODAY!