1920<\/strong> – Britain denounced the U.S. because of their delay in joining the League of Nations.<\/p>\n 1920<\/strong> – The Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party was formed.<\/p>\n 1921<\/strong> – Arthur G. Hamilton set a new parachute record when he safely jumped from 24,400 feet.<\/p>\n 1922<\/strong> – The first airplane landed at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n 1932<\/strong> – In the U.S., the Norris-LaGuardia Act established workers’ right to strike.<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> – The German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act. The act effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial legislative powers.<\/p>\n 1934<\/strong> – The U.S. Congress accepted the independence of the Philippines in 1945.<\/p>\n 1936<\/strong> – Italy, Austria & Hungary signed the Pact of Rome.<\/p>\n 1937<\/strong> – The L.A. Railway Co. started using PCC streetcars.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – “Truth or Consequences” was heard on the radio for the first time.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – The Japanese occupy the Andaman Islands.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – During World War II, the U.S. government began evacuating Japanese-Americans from West Coast homes to detention centers.<\/p>\n 1950<\/strong> – “Beat the Clock” premiered on CBS-TV.<\/p>\n 1951<\/strong> – U.S. paratroopers descended from flying boxcars in a surprise attack in Korea.<\/p>\n 1956<\/strong> – Pakistan became the first Islamic republic. It was still within the British Commonwealth.<\/p>\n 1956<\/strong> – Sudan became independent.<\/p>\n 1957<\/strong> – The U.S. Army sold the last of its homing pigeons.<\/p>\n 1965<\/strong> – America’s first two-person space flight took off from Cape Kennedy with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard. The craft was the Gemini 3<\/i>.<\/p>\n 1965<\/strong> – The Moroccan Army shot at demonstrators. About 100 people were killed.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> – Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. called the Vietnam War the biggest obstacle to the civil rights movement.<\/p>\n 1972<\/strong> – The U.S. called a halt to the peace talks on Vietnam being held in Paris.<\/p>\n 1972<\/strong> – Evel Knievel broke 93 bones after successfully jumping 35 cars.<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong> – The last airing of “Concentration” took place. The show had been on NBC for 15 years.<\/p>\n 1980<\/strong> – The deposed Shah of Iran, Muhammad Riza Pahlavi, left Panama for Egypt.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law making statutory rape a crime for men but not women.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – CBS Television announced plans to reduce “Captain Kangaroo” to a 30-minute show each weekday morning.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – U.S. President Reagan first proposed the development of technology to intercept enemy missiles. The proposal became known as the Strategic Defense Initiative and “Star Wars.”<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – Dr. Barney Clark died after 112 days with a permanent artificial heart.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – A 1,000-foot diameter asteroid missed Earth by about 430,000 miles.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – Two electrochemists, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischman, announced that they had created nuclear fusion in a test tube at room temperature.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – Former Exxon Valdez<\/i> Captain Joseph Hazelwood was ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound and pay $50,000 in restitution for the 1989 oil spill.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – U.N. experts announced that record ozone lows had been registered over a large area of the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexico’s leading presidential candidate, was assassinated in Tijuana. Mario Aburto Martinez was arrested at the scene and confessed to the killing.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – Wayne Gretzky broke Gordie Howe’s National Hockey League (NHL) career record with his 802nd goal.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – Howard Stern formally announced his Libertarian run for New York governor.<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong> – Taiwan held its first democratic presidential elections.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Germany’s largest bank pledged $3.1 million to Jewish foundations as restitution for Nazi looting.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that term limits for state lawmakers were constitutional.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Russian President Boris Yeltsin fired his Cabinet.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – The movie “Titanic” won 11 Oscars at the Academy Awards.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – The German company Bertelsmann AG agreed to purchase the American publisher Random House for $1.4 billion. The merger created the largest English-language book-publishing company in the world.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana gave formal approval for air strikes against Serbian targets.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong> – Russia’s orbiting Mir<\/i> space station plunged into the South Pacific after its 15-years of use.<\/p>\n 2003 <\/strong>\u2013 Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n 2008 <\/strong>\u2013 Official opening of Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India<\/p>\n 2009 <\/strong>\u2013 FedEx Express Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying from Guangzhou, China crashes at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport, killing both the captain and the co-pilot.<\/p>\n 2019 <\/strong>\u2013 The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces<\/i> declared military victory over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant after four years of fighting, although the group maintains a scattered presence and sleeper cells across Syria and Iraq.<\/sup><\/p>\n History of 23 March 1920 – Britain denounced the U.S. because of their delay in joining the League of Nations. 1920 – The Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party was formed. 1921 – Arthur G. 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