23 Mar
1775 Patrick Henry says ". . . give me liberty or give me death!"
1806 Lewis & Clark reach the Pacific Coast
1815 USS 'Hornet' captures HMS 'Penguin' in just 22 minutes, though the War of 1812 has been over for more than three months
1862 Battle of Kernstown, Va: Jackson begins his Valley Campaign
1864 Skirmish at Camden, Arkansas
1865 First black troops muster into the Confederate Army, c. 200 men at Ricmond
1871 The training vessel HMS 'Eurydice" founders in a storm off the Isle of Wight, two of her 319 crew and trainees survive.
1882 USN establishes the Office of Naval Intelligence
1901 Brig Gen Frederick Funston personally captures Emilio Aguinaldo
1903 The Wright Brothers receive a patent for their airplane
1918 The Union League Club of New York presents colors to the 367th Infantry, the city's s black draftee regiment, as it prepares to ship out for France
1933 The Reichstag grants Hitler dictatorial powers
1957 US army sells its last homing pigeons
1965 Gemini 3 launched, first US 2-man space flight (Grissom & Young)
2003 USMC Task Force Tarawa captures An Nasiriyah after a hot fight.
BORN
1818 Don Carlos Buell, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1898
1825 Edward Lloyd Thomas, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1898
1915 Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev, noted sniper (c. 400 kills), Hero of the Soviet Union, d.
DIED
1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio, 44, Mexican presidential candidate, assassinated in Tijuana
2006 Desmond Doss, 87, conscientious objector who had earned a Medal of Honor as a medic on Okinawa
1775 Patrick Henry says ". . . give me liberty or give me death!"
1806 Lewis & Clark reach the Pacific Coast
1815 USS 'Hornet' captures HMS 'Penguin' in just 22 minutes, though the War of 1812 has been over for more than three months
1862 Battle of Kernstown, Va: Jackson begins his Valley Campaign
1864 Skirmish at Camden, Arkansas
1865 First black troops muster into the Confederate Army, c. 200 men at Ricmond
1871 The training vessel HMS 'Eurydice" founders in a storm off the Isle of Wight, two of her 319 crew and trainees survive.
1882 USN establishes the Office of Naval Intelligence
1901 Brig Gen Frederick Funston personally captures Emilio Aguinaldo
1903 The Wright Brothers receive a patent for their airplane
1918 The Union League Club of New York presents colors to the 367th Infantry, the city's s black draftee regiment, as it prepares to ship out for France
1933 The Reichstag grants Hitler dictatorial powers
1957 US army sells its last homing pigeons
1965 Gemini 3 launched, first US 2-man space flight (Grissom & Young)
2003 USMC Task Force Tarawa captures An Nasiriyah after a hot fight.
BORN
1818 Don Carlos Buell, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1898
1825 Edward Lloyd Thomas, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1898
1915 Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev, noted sniper (c. 400 kills), Hero of the Soviet Union, d.
DIED
1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio, 44, Mexican presidential candidate, assassinated in Tijuana
2006 Desmond Doss, 87, conscientious objector who had earned a Medal of Honor as a medic on Okinawa