On a day like today, the March 23rd from 2001, the MIR stationwhich means “peace” in Russian, was destroyed in a controlled mannerfall over the Pacific Ocean.
In 1986, the Soviet Union launched the permanently manned space station, which served as a test laboratory for numerous scientific experiments and astronomical observations, setting records for people in space. After a fire it became obsolete and after fifteen years in orbit it successfully completes its last mission. The 140ton mass becomes a fireball and dissipates into the atmosphere, falling as a glowing metallic rain east of New Zealand.
Even on a day like today, March 23rd, but in the year 2000, 200 scientists from the United States and Europe complete the genetic sequence of the vinegar flythe most complex known to date, and 177 of the 289 genes associated with human diseases have been identified in the insect.
You want to know more? Discover the Ephemeris of March 23 and see what happened, who was born on a day like today and who died. Also, don’t miss what’s celebrated, today’s horoscope and saints.
What happened on March 23?
1766: Esquilache mutiny in Madrid, in response to the order to replace the slouch hat with the triangular one and the long cloak with the short one, to reveal the face and sword under the cloak.
1860: Battle of WadRas, which ended the war in Africa won by the Spanish troops.
1902: Italy raises the legal working age: from 9 to 12 for boys and from 11 to 15 for girls.
1919: Mussolini founded the “Fasci di combattimento” (battle fascia) in Milan.
1949: For the first time, a foreign film wins the Oscar for best picture. It was Britain’s Hamlet, directed and played by Laurence Olivier, that also won the Best Actor award.
1980: A farright commando assassinated the Archbishop of San Salvador, Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero, as he was celebrating mass in the El Salvador capital’s cathedral.
1994: Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa becomes the first IberoAmerican to take a seat at the Royal Academy of Spanish Languages in the 20th century.
Who was born on March 23?
1887: Juan Gris, pseudonym of José González, Spanish painter.
1900: Erich Fromm, GermanAmerican psychoanalyst.
1956: José Manuel Durao Barroso, politician and Portuguese Prime Minister.
1957: Nieves Herrero, Spanish journalist.
1968: Fernando Hierro, Spanish soccer player.
1972: Nuria Roca, Spanish journalist and TV presenter.
Who died on March 23?
1946: Francisco Largo Caballero, Spanish socialist politician.
1994: Giulietta Masina, Italian actress.
2001: David McTaggart Freser, founder of Greenpeace.
2009: Carlos Semprún Maura, writer and historian.
2011: Elizabeth Taylor, AngloAmerican actress, born in the United Kingdom to American parents.
2014: Adolfo Suárez, first President of the Government of Spanish Democracy.
2020: Lucía Bosé, Italian actress, married to the bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín.
What is celebrated on March 23?
Today, March 23, the World Meteorology Day.
Horoscope for March 23
Those born on March 23 belong to the zodiac sign Aries
Saints of March 23rd
Today, March 22, the saint of St. Joseph Oriol and Otto of Ariano.