On This Day:
Monday March 23, 2015 This is the 82nd day of the year, with 283 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: doors Early doors, used throughout Mesopotamia and the ancient world, were merely hides or textiles. Stone doors, usually hung on pivots, top and bottom, were often used on tombs. A marble, paneled example, probably from the time of Augustus, was found at Pompeii. A Greek door (c. 200 AD) from a tomb at Langaza, Turkey, has been preserved in the museum at Istanbul.
Holidays Pakistan: Pakistan Day / Republic Day.
Feast day of St. Gwinear, St. Turibius, St. Benedict the Hermit, St. Victorian, St. Ethelwald the Hermit, and St. Joseph Oriol.
Japan: Spring Imperial Festival or Shunki-Koreisan.
New Zealand, Otago, and Southland: Provincial Anniversary.
United Nations: World Metereological Day.
Events 1743 - George Frederic Handel's "Messiah" had its London premiere.
1775 - Patrick Henry made his famous call for America's independence from Britain, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" at a political convention.
1794 - Josiah G. Pierson patented a rivet machine.
1848 - Hungary proclaimed its independence of Austria.
1857 - Elisha Otis installed the first modern passenger elevator in a public building, in New York City.
1858 - Eleazer A. Gardner of Philadelphia patented the cable streetcar.
1880 - John Stevens patented the device called a grain crushing mill.
1903 - The Wright brothers obtained an airplane patent.
1909 - British Lt. Ernest Shackleton found the magnetic South Pole.
1919 - Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement in Italy. The name Fasci di Combattimento, came from the Italian peasant revolutionaries, or "Fighting Bands," from the 19th century.
1942 - The U.S. Army started moving Japanese-Americans to internment camps.
1950 - "Beat the Clock" premiered on TV.
1956 - Pakistan became an independent republic within the British Commonwealth.
1981 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls seek abortions.
1989 - After 33 years, Dick Clark retired from hosting "American Bandstand."
2001 - Russia's orbiting Mir space station ended its 15-year trip with a fiery plunge into the South Pacific.
Births 1769 - William Smith, the "Father of English Geology."
1857 - Fannie Merritt Farmer, American cookbook author.
1900 - Erich Fromm, German psychologist.
1912 - Werner von Braun, German-born rocket pioneer.
1929 - Roger Bannister, British track star.
Deaths 1964 - Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born American film actor.
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