March 23rd

1743: George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London
1743: English premiere of Handel's "Messiah"
1775: Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death"
1806: Lewis and Clark reach Pacific coast
1832: British Parliament passes reform bill
1836: Coin Press invented by Franklin Beale
1840: Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype)
1857: Elisha Otis' 1st elevator installed (488 Broadway, New York City)
1858: Streetcar patented (E A Gardner of Philadelphia)
1861: London's 1st tramcars, designed by Mr. Train of New York, begins operating
1867: Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Johnson's veto
1868: University of California founded (Oakland California)
1873: Slavery abolished in Puerto Rico
1880: Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisconsin)
1881: Gas lamp sets fire to Nice France opera house; 70 die
1889: President Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization
1903: Wright brothers obtain airplane patent
1917: Tornadoes kills 211 over 4 days in Midwest U.S.
1922: 1st airplane lands at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
1923: Frank Silver and Irving Conn release "Yes, We Have No Bananas"
1925: Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution
1929: 1st telephone installed in White House
1934: U.S. Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945
1945: Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 U.S. Navy ships bomb Okinawa
1957: U.S. Army sells last homing pigeons
1960: Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit
1962: William DeWitt buys Cincinnati Reds for $4,625,000
1962: John F. Kennedy visits SF
1965: Gemini 3 launched, 1st U.S. 2-man space flight (Grissom and Young)
1968: Reverend Walter Fauntroy, is 1st non-voting congressional delegate from DC
1976: International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying)
1991: 20 Tornadoes kill 5 in Tennessee
1994: F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in North Carolina, 120 die
1994: Richard Jacobs buys naming rights to Indians new ball park at Gateway for $13.8 million (renamed Jacobs Field)
2011: In Tokyo, the Metropolitan Government Bureau of Waterworks reports that radioactive iodine in city tap water is two times the recommended level for infants
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