March 23rd birthdays: what happened in the world on a day like today?

On March 23, 1933, the German Reichstag passed a law giving full powers to Hitler’s government.

Other birthdays:

1508.- Capitulations of Ferdinand the Catholic with Juan Díaz de Solís and Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, by which they undertake to seek a strait between the Atlantic and the Pacific.

1902.- Italy increases the legal working age: from 9 to 12 years for boys and from 11 to 15 years for girls.

1907.- Nicaragua defeats the alliance of El Salvador and Honduras.

1909.- A fire destroys the Mexican Chamber of Deputies.

1933.- The Reichstag approves a law granting full powers to Hitler’s government.

1956.- Pakistan is proclaimed Islamic Republic.

1959.- Günther Grass publishes the novel “The Drum”.

1863.- French troops in favor of the enthronement of Emperor Maximilian in Mexico attack the city of Puebla.

1965.- The National Assembly of Honduras declares Oswaldo López Arellano constitutional president.

1971.- The Argentine president, General Roberto M. Levingston, resigns from office and the Junta of Commanders assumes power.

1982.- A coup d’état led by General Efraín Ríos Montt overthrows the president of Guatemala, Romeo Lucas.

1983.- United States President Ronald Reagan announces the Strategic Defense Initiative, an anti-missile shield from space, popularly known as “Star Wars”, although many of the ideas he proposed were not developed.

1987.- Willy Brandt resigns as president of the German Social Democratic Party.

1989.- The right to strike is legalized in Hungary, the second ex-communist country to do so after Poland.

1994.- Luis Donaldo Colosio, PRI candidate for president of Mexico, assassinated.

1998.- Russian President Boris Yeltsin dismisses the government en bloc and appoints Sergei Kirienko as Prime Minister.

2000.- The complete sequence of the vinegar fly genome, the most complex known to date, is revealed.

2001.- Russia sinks the Mir space station in the Pacific, after fifteen years in orbit.

2006.- Argentine president, Néstor Kirchner, restores the military rank of Colonel Jaime Cesio, who had been demoted by the Military Junta for reporting disappearances during the dictatorship.

2010.- Mexico and the US agree to strengthen security cooperation against organized crime and expand the Mérida Initiative.

2013.- For the first time in the history of the Church, a pope in full power, Francis I, and another emeritus, Benedict XVI, meet.

2014.- Adolfo Suárez, first president of the Government of Spanish democracy, dies.

2021.- The Panamanian-flagged container ship Ever Given runs aground in the Suez Canal, causing it to become blocked and international trade to collapse.

Births

1749.- Pierre Simon Laplace, French scholar.

1814.- Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Spanish poet.

1887.- Juan Gris, pseudonym of José González, Spanish painter.

1900.- Erich Fromm, German-American psychoanalyst.

1910.- Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director.

1912.- Werner von Braun, German space engineer.

1922.- Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor and filmmaker.

1931.- Viktor Korchnoi, Soviet chess grandmaster.

1937.- Robert Gallo, American doctor, co-discoverer of the AIDS virus.

1942.- Michael Haneke, Austrian filmmaker.

1944.- Michael Nyman, British composer and pianist.

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1955.- Moses Malone, jogador de basquete americano.

1956.- José Manuel Durão Barroso, político português e primeiro-ministro.

1963.- Ana Fidelia Quirot, atleta cubana.

1986.- Andrea Dovizioso, motociclista italiano.

1990.- Jaime Alguersuari, piloto espanhol de Fórmula 1.

Mortes

1842.- Henri Beyle, “Stendhal”, escritor francês.

1849.- Andrés Manuel del Río, mineralogista mexicano.

1942.- Marcelo T. de Alvear, político argentino.

1946.- Francisco Largo Caballero, político socialista espanhol.

1948.- Alberto Ghiraldo, escritor argentino.

1972.- Cristóbal Balenciaga Eizaguirre, costureiro espanhol, um dos mais importantes criadores de moda de todos os tempos.

1983.- Barney Clark, o primeiro ser humano a viver com um coração artificial

1992.- Friedrich von Hayek, britânico de origem austríaca, pai do neoliberalismo econômico, Prêmio Nobel de Economia em 1974.

1993.- Werner Richter, escritor alemão.

1994.- Giulietta Masina, atriz italiana.

1999.- Luis María Argaña, político paraguaio.

2001.- David McTaggart Freser, fundador do Greenpeace.

2006.- Wilfredo “Pío” Leiva, cantor cubano.

2009.- Carlos Semprún Maura, escritor e historiador.

2010.- José María Nunes, realizador de cinema, professor na Escola de Cinema de Barcelona.

2011.- Elizabeth Taylor, atriz anglo-americana nascida no Reino Unido, filha de pais americanos.

2013.- Boris Berezovsky, oligarca russo.

2014.- Adolfo Suárez, primeiro presidente democrático do governo da Espanha após a ditadura de Franco.

2017.- Lola Albright, atriz americana.

2018.- Nicanor Parra, poeta chileno.

2020.- Lucía Bosé, atriz italiana casada com o toureiro Luis Miguel Dominguín.

2021.- George Segal, ator americano, 87 anos.

2022.- Madeleine Albright, política americana, primeira mulher secretária de Estado dos EUA.

2023.- Gordon Moore, cofundador da fabricante de microchips Intel.

Source: Elcomercio

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