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There are many events that happened on this date in history. Here are just a few of them!

March 23 is the 82nd day of the year (83rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 283 days remain until the end of the year.

HISTORICAL EVENTS

1490 - 1st dated edition of Maimonides "Mishneh Torah" published

1743 - George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London

1775 - Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death" in speech in favor of Virginian troops joining US Revolutionary war

1919 - Moscow's Politburo/Central Committee forms

1933 - Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers

1945 - Largest operation in Pacific War (WWII), 1,500 US Navy ships bomb Japanese island of Okinawa

1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).

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