March 23 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for March 23
In the headlines today:

1998	Titanic joins Ben-Hur as the only other movie to win 11 Oscars at the Academy Awards.
1996	Taiwan holds its first open presidential election, with incumbent Lee Teng-hui winning the popular vote.
1985	Singer Billy Joel marries supermodel Christie Brinkley in New York City.
1983	Dr. Barney Clark, implanted with a permanent artificial heart, dies 112 days after the operation.
1973	The NBC TV game show Concentration is seen for the last time, after 15 years on the air.
1967	The Beatles record additional vocal overdub tracks for Getting Better, a song that will ultimately appear on their Sergeant Pepper album, at EMI Studios in London. (photo credit: Capitol Records)
1965	Astronauts Virgil I. 'Gus' Grissom and John Young blast off aboard Gemini 3 for the first, two man US space flight.
1956	Pakistan becomes a British Commonwealth nation.
1942	Japanese-Americans are moved to internment camps during WWII.
1933	Adolf Hitler is granted control of Germany, with the passage of the Enabling Act by the Reichstag.
1919	The Fascist political movement is founded by Benito Mussolini in Milan, Italy.
1903	The Wright Brothers file a US patent application for their airplane design.
1806	Lewis and Clark start their return journey eastward, after reaching the Pacific ocean.
1786	US president George Washington plants 4,000 chestnut trees at his Mount Vernon, New York, home. (photo credit: NARA)
1775	Patrick Henry utters his famous proclamation at the Virginia Provincial Convention: "Give me liberty, or give me death!"