WHAT HAPPENED ON 23. MARCH
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Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society. (23. March 1909)

First World War: On the third day of the German Spring Offensive, the 10th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment is annihilated with many of the men becoming Prisoners of war (23. March 1918)

In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement. (23. March 1919)

Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for murder during the Indian struggle for independence. (23. March 1931)

The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany. (23. March 1933)

Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. (23. March 1935)

The Hungarian air force attacks the headquarters of Slovak air force in the city of Spišská Nová Ves, kills 13 people and began the Slovak–Hungarian War. (23. March 1939)

The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League. (23. March 1940)

World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands. (23. March 1942)

Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan) (23. March 1956)

NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace initiative. (23. March 1962)

NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young). (23. March 1965)

The first issue of The Vigilant is published from Khartoum. (23. March 1965)

The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line. (23. March 1978)

Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans. (23. March 1980)

Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt. (23. March 1982)

Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. (23. March 1983)

Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce their discovery of cold fusion at the University of Utah. (23. March 1989)

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. (23. March 1991)

At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez. (23. March 1994)