23 March
Notable Births
Anna Hall (heptathlete)
b. 2001
American athlete (born 2001)
Alex Albon
b. 1996
Thai-British racing driver (born 1996)
Joel Kiviranta
b. 1996
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1996)
Jan Lisiecki
b. 1995
Musical artist
Victoria Pedretti
b. 1995
American actress (born 1995)
Ozan Tufan
b. 1995
Turkish footballer
Nick Powell
b. 1994
English footballer (born 1994)
Oskar Sundqvist
b. 1994
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1994)
Quinn Cook
b. 1993
American basketball player (born 1993)
Tomáš Hyka
b. 1993
Czech ice hockey player (born 1993)
Dmitrij Jaškin
b. 1993
Czech ice hockey player (born 1993)
Aytaç Kara
b. 1993
Turkish footballer (born 1993)
Tolga Ciğerci
b. 1992
Turkish footballer
Kyrie Irving
b. 1992
American basketball player (born 1992)
Vanessa Morgan
b. 1992
Canadian actress (born 1992)
Facundo Campazzo
b. 1991
Argentine basketball player (born 1991)
Erik Haula
b. 1991
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1991)
Gregg Wylde
b. 1991
Scottish footballer (born 1991)
Jaime Alguersuari
b. 1990
Spanish racing driver (born 1990)
Mark Barberio
b. 1990
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1990)
Notable Deaths
Mia Love
d. 2025
American politician (1975–2025)
Madeleine Albright
d. 2022
American diplomat and political scientist (1937–2022)
George Segal
d. 2021
American actor (1934–2021)
Miroslava Breach
d. 2017
Mexican crime journalist and murder victim (1962–2017)
Joe Garagiola
d. 2016
American baseball player (1926–2016)
Ken Howard
d. 2016
American actor (1944–2016)
Lee Kuan Yew
d. 2015
Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990
Lil' Chris
d. 2015
English singer and television presenter (1990–2015)
Dave Brockie
d. 2014
Canadian-American musician (1963–2014)
Jaroslav Šerých
d. 2014
Adolfo Suárez
d. 2014
Prime Minister of Spain from 1976 to 1981)
Peter Oakley
d. 2014
British vlogger (1927–2014)
Boris Berezovsky (businessman)
d. 2013
Russian businessman (1946–2013)
Onofre Corpuz
d. 2013
Filipino academic, economist, historian, and government official (1926–2013)
Virgil Trucks
d. 2013
American baseball player (1917–2013)
Joe Weider
d. 2013
Canadian bodybuilder and businessman (1919–2013)
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed
d. 2012
President of Somalia from 2004 to 2008
Jim Duffy (animator)
d. 2012
American animator (1937–2012)
Naji Talib
d. 2012
Prime minister of Iraq from 1966 to 1967
Jean Bartik
d. 2011
American computer programmer (1924–2011)
On This Day in History
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2026
An Aerospace Force Lockheed C-130 crashes during take-off in Puerto Leguízamo, Columbia, killing 70 people.
2026 Colombian Air Force Lockheed C-130 crash
2025
Israel Defense Forces kill 15 aid workers in the Rafah paramedic massacre.
Israel Defense Forces
2021
A container ship runs aground and obstructs the Suez Canal for six days.
2021 Suez Canal obstruction
2020
Prime Minister Boris Johnson puts the United Kingdom into its first national lockdown in response to COVID-19.
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
2019
The Kazakh capital of Astana is renamed to Nur-Sultan.
Kazakhstan
2019
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces capture the town of Baghuz in Eastern Syria, declaring military victory over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant after four years of fighting, although the group maintains a scattered presence and sleeper cells across Syria and Iraq.
Battle of Baghuz Fawqani
2018
President of Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigns from the presidency amid a mass corruption scandal before certain impeachment by the opposition-majority Congress of Peru.
President of Peru
2014
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports cases of Ebola in the forested rural region of southeastern Guinea, marking the beginning of the largest Ebola outbreak in history.
World Health Organization
2010
The Affordable Care Act becomes law in the United States.
Affordable Care Act
2009
FedEx Express Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying from Guangzhou, China crashes at Tokyo's Narita International Airport, killing both the captain and the co-pilot.
FedEx Express Flight 80
2008
Official opening of Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India.
Rajiv Gandhi International Airport
2003
Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq.
Battle of Nasiriyah
2001
The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
Mir
1999
Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
Paraguay
1996
Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
Taiwan
1994
At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.
Tijuana
1994
A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground alongside destroying a Starlifter by accident. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
1994
Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes into the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, killing 75.
Aeroflot Flight 593
1991
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 the 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.
Revolutionary United Front
1988
Angolan and Cuban forces defeat South Africa in the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale.
Battle of Cuito Cuanavale