History for March 23

History for March 23 - On-This-Day.com:
Joan Crawford 1905 - Actress (Mildred Pierce, The Unknown), Born: Lucille Fay LeSueur, Akira Kurosawa 1910 - Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter (Sugata Sanshiro, Madadayo), Wernher Von Braun ((Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun)) 1912 - Rocket scientist, generally regarded as the father of the United States space program


Craig Breedlove 1937 - First to reach 400 mi/h, 500 mi/h and 600 mi/h using turbojet-powered vehicles, Richard Grieco 1965 - Actor, Keri Russell 1976 - Actress ("Felicity," "The Americans")


1775 - American revolutionary Patrick Henry declared, "give me liberty, or give me death!"

1839 - The first recorded printed use of "OK" [oll korrect] occurred in Boston's Morning Post.


1857 - Elisha Otis installed the first modern passenger elevator in a public building. It was at the corner of Broome Street and Broadway in New York City.


1912 - The Dixie Cup was invented.


1919 - Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy.


1933 - The German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act. The act effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial legislative powers.


1942 - During World War II, the U.S. government began evacuating Japanese-Americans from West Coast homes to detention centers.


1965 - 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.