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Events

• 1400 (626 years ago) The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
• 1879 (147 years ago) War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war, is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.
• 1885 (141 years ago) Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hưng Hóa, northern Vietnam.
• 1933 (93 years ago) The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
• 1956 (70 years ago) Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. This date is now celebrated as Republic Day in Pakistan.
• 1978 (48 years ago) The first UNIFIL troops arrive in Lebanon for a peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
• 2019 (7 years ago) The Kazakh capital of Astana is renamed to Nur-Sultan.
• 2020 (6 years ago) Prime Minister Boris Johnson puts the United Kingdom into its first national lockdown in response to COVID-19.

Births

• 1749 (277 years ago) Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (died 1827)
• 1881 (145 years ago) Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958)
• 1882 (144 years ago) Emmy Noether, Jewish German-American mathematician, physicist and academic (died 1935)
• 1900 (126 years ago) Erich Fromm, German psychologist and sociologist (died 1980)
• 1910 (116 years ago) Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director, producer and screenwriter (died 1998)
• 1912 (114 years ago) Wernher von Braun, German-American physicist and engineer, chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle (died 1977)
• 1956 (70 years ago) José Manuel Barroso, Portuguese academic and politician, 115th Prime Minister of Portugal
• 1970 (56 years ago) Gianni Infantino, Swiss-Italian football administrator, president of FIFA

Deaths

• 1555 (471 years ago) Julius III, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1487)
• 1801 (225 years ago) Paul I, Russian emperor (born 1754)
• 1842 (184 years ago) Stendhal, French novelist (born 1783)
• 1992 (34 years ago) Friedrich Hayek, Austrian-German economist, philosopher, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
• 2011 (15 years ago) Elizabeth Taylor, American-British actress, socialite and humanitarian (born 1932)
• 2014 (12 years ago) Adolfo Suárez, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Spain (born 1932)
• 2015 (11 years ago) Lee Kuan Yew, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Singapore (born 1923)
• 2022 (4 years ago) Madeleine Albright, Czechoslovak-American diplomat, 64th United States Secretary of State (born 1937)

All 413 events, births and deaths of March 23