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1775 \u2013 During the Second Virginia Convention held at the St. John’s Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia, delegate Patrick Henry rises to speak on the question of the passage of a resolution, declaring the United Colonies to be independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain. He is quoted as ending with “Give me liberty, or give me death!”.<\/em><\/p>\n 1806 \u2013 After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery begin their return journey.<\/p>\n 1857 \u2013 Elisha Otis’ first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.<\/p>\n 1868 \u2013 The University of California is founded in Oakland, California.<\/p>\n 1913 \u2013 A tornado outbreak kills more than 240 people in the central United States, with flooding in the Ohio River watershed killing 650 more.<\/p>\n 1919 \u2013 Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy.<\/p>\n 1933 \u2013 The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.<\/p>\n 1965 \u2013 NASA launches Gemini 3<\/em>, the United States’ first 2 man space flight with astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young aboard.<\/p>\n 1983 \u2013 President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles, the Strategic Defense Initiative, <\/em>nicknamed the “Star Wars program”.<\/p>\n 1989 \u2013 At Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 10th Infantry Regiment ‘caps off’ reception of its final shipment of soldiers, beginning Zero Week of Basic Combat Training cycle 2-89.<\/p>\n 1994 \u2013 On final approach to landing at Pope Air Force Base on Fort Bragg North Carolina; an Air Force F-16 collides with a C-130 and then crashes into several more aircraft on the Green Ramp of the base, killing 23 soldiers and injuring 100 more.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 The abandoned Russian Mir<\/em> space station is purposefully deorbited, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.<\/p>\n 2019 \u2013 After four years of fighting. the US backed Syrian Democratic Forces declare military victory over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 23 1775 \u2013 During the Second Virginia Convention held at the St. John’s Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia, delegate Patrick Henry rises to speak on the question of the passage of a resolution, declaring the United Colonies to be independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain. He is quoted as ending with “Give me liberty, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66088"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91047,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66088\/revisions\/91047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}