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Thursday, March 23, 2017

Today in History

1657
France and England form an alliance against Spain.
1743
Handel’s Messiah is performed for the first time in London.
1775
American revolutionary hero Patrick Henry, while addressing the House of Burgesses, declares “give me liberty, or give me death!”
1791
Etta Palm, a Dutch champion of woman’s rights, sets up a group of women’s clubs called the Confederation of the Friends of Truth.
1848
Hungary proclaims its independence of Austria.
1857
Elisha Otis installs the first modern passenger elevator in a public building, at the corner of Broome Street and Broadway in New York City.
1858
Eleazer A. Gardner of Philadelphia patents the cable street car, which runs on overhead cables.
1862
Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson faces his only defeat at the Battle of Kernstown, Va
1880
John Stevens of Neenah, Wis., patents the grain crushing mill. This mill allows flour production to increase by 70 percent.
1901
A group of U.S. Army soldiers, led by Brigadier General Frederick Funston, capture Emilio Aguinaldo, the leader of the Philippine Insurrection of 1899.
1903
The Wright brothers obtain an airplane patent.
1909
British Lt. Ernest Shackleton finds the magnetic South Pole.
1909
Theodore Roosevelt begins an African safari sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
1917
Austrian Emperor Charles I makes a peace proposal to French President Poincare.
1920
Great Britain denounces the United States because of its delay in joining the League of Nations.
1921
Arthur G. Hamilton sets a new parachute record, safely jumping 24,400 feet.
1927
Captain Hawthorne Gray sets a new balloon record soaring to 28,510 feet.
1933
The Reichstag gives Adolf Hitler the power to rule by decree.
1942
The Japanese occupy the Anadaman Islands in the Indian Ocean.
1951
U.S. paratroopers descend from flying boxcars in a surprise attack in Korea.
1956
Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic, although it is still within the British Commonwealth.
1967
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. calls the Vietnam War the biggest obstacle to the civil rights movement.
1970
Mafia boss Carlo Gambino is arrested for plotting to steal $3 million.
1972
The United States calls a halt to the peace talks on Vietnam being held in Paris.
1981
U.S. Supreme Court upholds a law making statutory rape a crime for men but not women.

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