March 23 is the 82nd (eightieth second) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 83rd in the leap years. There are 283 days left to end the year.
Catholic saint
San José Oriol.3
Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo.4
Santa Rebeca de Himlaya.5
San Victoriano, Frumencio and companions.6
Saint Methodius Sunday Trcka.7
San Gualterio de Pontoise.8
Beata Anunciata Colcchetti.9
San Fingar or Guignero.10
San Otón.10
Blessed Peter.10
Blessed Edmundo Sykes.10
San Pedro Higgins.10
Events
625: in Arabia the battle of Uhud takes place between Muslims and pagans.
893 (New Year’s Day of 280 H in the Muslim calendar): in Sha Bandar (province of Sind, Pakistan) and in Ardabil (50 km west of the Caspian Sea, in Iran) there is an earthquake leaving a balance of 150 000 dead
1391: An earthquake is recorded at the current Franco-Swiss border, about 30 km southwest of Basel. The number of fatalities is unknown.
1508: in Spain, Fernando el Católico signs some agreements with Juan Díaz de Solís and Vicente Yánez Pinzón, for which they commit themselves to try to find a strait between the Atlantic and the Pacific.
1534: in Rome, Pope Clement VII declares that he will excommunicate Henry VIII of England if he persists in divorcing Catherine of Aragon.
1536: in the Etna volcano, about 50 km north of Catania (Sicily) an earthquake of magnitude 5.1 is recorded in the Richter seismological scale. The number of fatalities is unknown.
1568: the battle of Longjumeau is fought, by which the second war of religion between the Huguenots and the French Catholics was ended.
1582: in Datong (China), 350 km west of Beijing, an earthquake of magnitude 5.0 is recorded on the Richter seismological scale. The number of victims is unknown.
1584: next to the San Juan river, in the Strait of Magallanes, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa founds the city of Rey don Felipe.
1708: arrives at Firth of Forth James Francis Edward Stuart.
1748: in Valencia, an earthquake kills 10,000 people and destroys the castle of Montesa, headquarters of the military order of this name.
1748: in London, Händel opens his work Alexander Balus.
1766: The Esquilache Mutiny begins in Madrid, a popular revolt in protest against the policy of the Minister of Carlos III.
1775: in the episcopal church of San Juan (Richmond, Virginia, United States) Patrick Henry gets the colony of Virginia to join the War of Independence of the United States after a speech that ends with his famous phrase «Give me liberty or give me death «(» Give me freedom or death «).
1801: in his bedroom of the castle San Miguel (Moscow), Tsar Paul I of Russia is beaten with a sword, and then strangled.
1806: in the United States, after reaching the Pacific Ocean, the explorers Lewis and Clark and their «discoverers’ bodies» undertake the return trip.
1808: the marshal Murat, brother-in-law of Napoleón, arrives at Madrid to the command of a powerful French army with the order to attract Bayonne to the Spanish real family, at the time that refuses to recognize Fernando VII like king. Murat, who had been named Napoleon’s lieutenant in Spain on February 20, had already begun the occupation of the kingdom, occupying the squares of Pamplona, Barcelona, Figueras and San Sebastian.
1821: in Greece -in the framework of its War of Independence- the battle and fall of the city of Kalamata takes place.
1839: in the United States the use of the OK is registered for the first time as an abbreviation of oll korrect in the Boston Morning Post.
1844: Queen Maria Cristina returns to Madrid after her exile.
1848: in Venice, the Republic of San Marcos, frees itself from Austria and proclaims its independence.
1848: the ship John Wickliffe arrives in Port Chalmers (New Zealand), carrying the first Scottish pioneers. They found the province of Otago.
1857: in New York, Elisha Otis installed the first elevator on Broadway 488.
1860: battle of Wad-Ras, that puts an end to the war of Africa, won by the Spanish troops, directed by O’Donnell, and in which Prim was covered with glory.
1868: University of California is founded in Oakland (California).
1877: in Utah, United States, is executed by shooting John D. Lee for his participation in the massacre of Mountain Meadows, the only one brought to trial for the fact.
1879: battle of Calama or battle of Topáter, first armed confrontation of War of the Pacific.
1889: in the United States, President Benjamin Harrison opens the state of Oklahoma to the settlement of whites.
1889: in the east of London the free ferry Woolwich is officially opened.
1889: in Qadian (India), the Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadiyya Muslim community.
1896: The Legislature of the State of New York decrees the law Raines, that restricted the sale of alcoholic beverages in Sunday except in hotels.
1901: United States delivers to Spain the sale price of the islands of Joló (Philippines).
1901: the world learns that children and women res die of hunger in the British concentration camps in Transvaal.
1902: The Chamber of Italy raises the legal age for work from 9 to 12 years for boys and from 11 to 15 for girls.
1902: in the field of experiences of Torregorda (Madrid) is verified the British cannon Vickers, bought by the Spanish government.1
1903: In the United States, the Wright Brothers apply for a patent for their invention of the fixed-wing airplane.
1909: in New York, the ex-president Theodore Roosevelt travels to a safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and the National Geographical Society.
1910: in the Canary Islands, feminists present their candidacy for elections, even knowing that they will not be elected, as an act of denunciation towards the political exclusion to which women are subjected in Spain.
1910: in certain Spanish towns, vehicles are allowed to circulate on Thursday and Good Friday.
1915: in Murcia the university is created, by Royal Decree.
1915: the Polish city of Przemyśl capitula and the Russians make 120,000 prisoners.
1918: Latvia proclaims its independence.
1919: in Milan (Italy) Benito Mussolini founds the Fasci italiani di combattimento, antecedent of the National Fascist Party.
1920: in Salzburg (Austria) the first festival is inaugurated.
1921: the German government authorizes the import of saltpeter from Chile.
1923: in Seville the cantata El Retablo de Maese Pedro, by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla, is released.
1924: the Werner Siemens Institute for Radiological Research opens in Berlin (Germany).
1925: the state of Tennessee prohibits the teaching of the theory of evolution.
1927: the poet Antonio Machado is chosen to occupy an armchair in the Royal Spanish Academy.
1928: José Carlos Mariátegui abandons the APRA and founds the Peruvian Communist Party.
1929: in Santa Fe (Argentina), the Paraná River reaches 6.55 meters high, and floods the city.
1931: conditional freedom is granted in Spain for the signatories of the revolutionary manifesto.
1931: in the framework of the struggle for the independence of India, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev are sent to forced labor in the galleys. They deny their request to be shot.
1933: the Reichstag approves a law by which full and exceptional powers are granted to Hitler’s government.
1935: the Constitution of the Philippines is signed.
1942: in the framework of the Second World War, in the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands.
1942: The Nazis carry out the Massacre of Jews in Lublin.
1945: the Allied Armies cross the Rhine.
1945: in Manila (Philippines), the Japanese army carried out a massacre of Spaniards.
1948: the British John Cunningham breaks a new height record of 16,800 m with the Vampire jet plane.
1949: in the Lebanese city of Ras el-Nakura an armistice between Israel and Lebanon is signed.
1950: World Meteorological Day is celebrated for the first time by the World Meteorological Organization.
1955: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States detonates its 1.2 kton Ess nuclear bomb, the seventh of the 14 in the Teapot operation. It is the 58th bomb of the 1129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
1956: Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Currently this is Republic Day in that country).
1956: in Hungary the posthumous rehabilitation of László Rajk, former Minister of Foreign Affairs executed in 1949.
1959: Günter Grass publishes the novel The Tin Drum.
1960: a judgment of the German Constitutional Court of Kalsruhe grants physicians, in the future, free access to the insurance implanted by the State.
1965: NASA launches the Gemini 3, the first ship with two astronauts (Gus Grissom and John Young).
1965: Joaquín Merino obtains the Café Gijón prize for his novel La isla.
1970: in Cambodia, the dismissed king Sihanouk asks his subjects to go to the resistance against the government of Lon Nol.
1971: in Argentina the Board of Commanders in Chief of the Armed Forces dismisses de facto president Roberto Levingston.
1971: in Europe 100 000 peasants hold protest demonstrations against the agrarian policy of the European Economic Community.
1971: Argentina and Venezuela reestablish diplomatic relations.
1976: the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its Optional Protocol come into force.
1979: Laos and Cambodia sign a treaty of friendship; concludes the formation of an Indochina Assembly, under the protection of Vietnam.
1980: the Shah of Persia, exiled in Panama, travels to Egypt, where he must be hospitalized.
1980: in Sweden, 58.2% of the voters approve in referendum the construction of new nuclear power plants.
1980: in El Salvador Archbishop Óscar Romero gives his famous sermon addressing the army, asking him to stop killing Salvadorans. The next day he will be killed during a mass by government agents.
1980: With the The participation of thousands of young literacy teachers initiates the National Literacy Crusade in Nicaragua.
1981: in Bangladesh, a coup d’etat overthrows the Government.
1981: a single command to combat terrorism is constituted in Spain, formed by the armed forces, the national police and the civil guard, whose main objective is the dismantling of ETA.
1982: in Guatemala, right-wing general Efraín Ríos Montt overthrows the bloody pro-US dictatorship of Fernando Romeo Lucas García. The Mayan genocide begins.
1983: Ronald Reagan announces the Strategic Defense System, known as Star Wars (for the movie Star Wars).
1984: in Rome (Italy) a group of thieves take an armored safe with values equivalent to 3,500 million pesetas.
1986: in Switzerland, OPEC announces that it accepts a global drop in crude production.
1986: high rates of infant mortality due to malnutrition are published in Mexico.
1986: 60% of exports are used in Bolivia to pay the foreign debt.
1986: in Quito (Ecuador) the government seeks to recover the socialist market.
1986: in Athens (Greece) a bomb explodes against the statue of Truman.
1986: in Tokyo (Japan) Nakasone exhorts to strengthen the army.
1986: the government of the USSR is outraged by a nuclear test in Nevada (United States).
1987: Willy Brandt resigns as president of the German Socialists after the espionage scandal.
1987: Tablas de Daimiel (Spain) are declared threatened due to fires and excessive drilling of wells.
1987: the Spanish public prosecutor presents a lawsuit against Lola Flores for alleged tax offense.
1988: Sapoá (Nicaragua) signs a ceasefire agreement between the government of Daniel Ortega and the Nicaraguan Contras (created by the CIA on the orders of President Ronald Reagan), with the presentation of programs for the pacification of the country.
1989: the right to strike is legalized in Hungary, the second country in Eastern Europe that recognizes it, after Poland.
1989: Asteroid 4581 Asclepius (300 m in diameter) passes 0.70 million km from Earth (in comparison, the Moon is about 0.38 million km).
1990: the Spanish trapeze artist Pinito del Oro wins the 1990 National Circus Award, awarded for the first time by the Ministry of Culture.
1990: Lothar de Maizière, president of the CDU of the GDR, accepts the task of forming the first democratic government in the country after his victory in the elections of March 18.
1992: Presentation to the media of the new Spanish high-speed train AVE, which runs 317 km, from Madrid to Adamuz (Córdoba), and reaches a speed of 300 km / h.
1993: Norway, Austria, Finland and Sweden will begin talks for their entry into the European Community.
1994: In Mexico, the then PRI candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta suffers an attack while he was in political campaign in the city of Tijuana, Baja California. He dies hours later at the General Hospital of the same city.
1994: Flight 593 of Aeroflot hits a hill in Kemerovo Oblast. 75 people die
1997: in the village of Havaspur, 60 km west of the holy city of Gaya (India), the terrorist group Ranvir Sena (made up of right-wing Brahmin landowners) kills 10 Dalits (people of low caste). With the blood of the victims they write the name of the organization on the walls of the town.
1997: in San Sebastian (Spain), thousands of protesters – summoned by the organization Gesto por la Paz -, call for the end of ETA violence and the release of prison official José Antonio Ortega Lara (who has been kidnapped for 431 days) and the businessman Cosme Delclaux (132 days).
1997: the Asturian poet Ángel González enters the Royal Spanish Academy with the speech «The other solitudes of Antonio Machado», to occupy the P chair (capital), desert after the death of anthropologist and historian Julio Caro Baroja.
1998: in the United States, the movie Titanic receives 11 Oscar Awards.
1999: In Asunción (Paraguay) three individuals in military suits shoot the Paraguayan Vice President, Luis María Argaña, the main political opponent of President Raúl Cubas. The next day, the Chamber of Deputies of Paraguay accuses President Cubas of the murder of Argaña, and votes to be tried and dismissed by the Senate.
1999: in Vienna, OPEC) ratifies the new global production cut of 2.1 million barrels of crude oil per day to force an increase in its price.
2001: the Russian space station Mir reenters the Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrates before touching the Earth’s surface.
2005: Parliament of Pristina appoints the leader of the Alliance for the future of Kosovo, Bajram Kosumi, new head of the Executive.
2005: the French police arrest two alleged members of ETA, one of whom may be the deputy chief of the band’s commandos, Joseba Segurola.
2005: the city council of Guadalajara (Spain) removes the statues of the dictator Francisco Franco and of the founder of Falange, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera.
2005: Spanish scientists describe, for the first time, the structure of the smallpox virus.
2005: For the first time astronomers see light from extrasolar planets.
2006: in Buenos Aires (Argentina), President Néstor Kirchner restored his military rank and promoted Colonel Juan Jaime Cesio (79), who was condemned in 1983 for having denounced the Argentine civil-military dictatorship (1976-1983). the disappearances.
2018: in Lima, Martín Vizcarra assumes as president of Peru, following the order of the Constitution to be the first vice president of the country.
Births
603: Pacal II, Mayan ruler (f 683).
1429: Margaret of Anjou, queen consorte English (f.1482).
1645: William Kidd, legendary Scottish pirate (f 1701).
1699: John Bartram, American botanist (1777).
1732: Maria Adelaida of France, French aristocrat (f 1800).
1749: Pierre Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (b.1827).
1754: Jurij Bartolomej Vega, mathematician, physicist and officer of Slovenian artillery (f 1802).
1769: William Smith, British geologist and cartographer (f 1839).
1814: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Cuban poet and writer (f 1873).
1833: Franz Bendel, composer and bohemian pianist (b.1874).
1834: Julius Reubke, German composer, pianist and organist (1858).
1845: Victoriano Huerta, Mexican military man and politician (f.1916).
1847: Theodore Roussel, British painter of French origin (f 1926).
1852: Domingo Rivero, Spanish poet (f 1929).
1858: Ludwig Quidde, German historian and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1927 (f 1941).
1868: Dietrich Eckart, German politician and ideologist (f.1923).
1878: Franz Schreker, Austrian conductor and composer (b.1934).
1881: Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist, Nobel Prize for literature in 1937 (1958).
1881: Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1953 (f 1965).
1881: Egon Petri, German pianist (f 1962).
1882: Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b.1935).
1885: Adelardo Covarsí, painter, professor and historian of Spanish art (f.1951).
1885: Roque González Garza, Mexican politician (f 1962).
1887: Juan Gris (José Victoriano González-Pérez), Spanish painter (f 1927).
1887: Felix Yusupov, Russian aristocrat (1967).
1893: Angel Cruchaga, Chilean poet, National Prize of Literature of Chile in 1948 (f.1964).
1893: Cedric Gibbons, American artistic director of cinema (1960).
1896: Manuel Suárez y Suárez, Mexican businessman and patron (f 1987).
1897: Raúl Porras Barrenechea, Peruvian historian and diplomat (1960).
1900: Erich Fromm, German-American psychoanalyst (b. 1980).
1903: Alejandro Casona, Spanish playwright (f 1965).
1904: Joan Crawford, American actress (f 1977).
1905: Lale Andersen, German singer-songwriter (1972).
1907: Daniel Bovet, Swiss pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1957 (1992).
1908: Jóvito Villalba Gutiérrez, Venezuelan politician (1989).
1910: Akira Kurosawa, Japanese filmmaker (1998).
1912: Werner von Braun, German space engineer (1977).
1915: Vasili Záitsev, Soviet military (1991).
1920: Milton Castellanos Everardo, Mexican politician (f 2011).
1920: Nybia Mariño, Uruguayan classical music pianist (f. 2014).
1922: Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor and filmmaker (f. 1990).
1929: Roger Bannister, British athlete (f 2018).
1931: Víktor Korchnói, Russian chess player (f. 2016).
1932: Larry Evans, American chess player (f. 2010).
1932: Louisiana Red, singer and guitarist of American blues (f.2012).
1933: Rolando Cárdenas, Chilean poet (1990).
1933: Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist.
1934: Mark Rydell, American filmmaker.
1935: María Vaner, Argentine actress (f. 2008).
1936: Sergio Klainer, Mexican and Argentine actor.
1937: Robert Gallo, American biologist.
1937: Moacyr Scliar, Brazilian writer (f. 2011).
1942: Michael Haneke, Austrian filmmaker.
1943: Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish writer (f 2001).
1944: Michael Nyman, British pianist, musicologist and composer.
1945: Franco Battiato, Italian singer-songwriter.
1946: Adrián Ghio, Argentine actor (1991).
1949: Ric Ocasek, American singer, of the band The Cars.
1951: Corinne Clery, French actress.
1952: Kim Stanley Robinson, American writer.
1953: Baudilio Díaz, Venezuelan baseball player (f 1990).
1953: Chaka Khan, American singer.
1955: Moses Malone, American basketball player (f 2015).
1956: José Manuel Durão Barroso, politician and Portuguese prime minister (2002-2004), European president (since 2004).
1957: Amanda Plummer, American actress.
1957: Nieves Herrero, Spanish journalist.
1959: Catherine Keener, American actress.
1959: Kazue Ikura, Japanese voice actress.
1959: Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (2005).
1960: Rafael Ferrer, American actor dense
1962: Steve Redgrave, British rower.
1963: Míchel (José Miguel González), Spanish soccer player.
1963: Jorge Rinaldi, Argentine soccer player.
1963: Ana Fidelia Quirot, Cuban athlete.
1964: Óscar de Jesús Vargas, Colombian cyclist.
1964: Carlos Javier Echarri Cánovas, Mexican demographer.
1965: Richard Grieco, American actor.
1968: Damon Albarn, British singer, of the bands Blur and Gorillaz.
1968: Fernando Hierro, Spanish soccer player.
1969: Juan Ramón López Caro, Spanish football coach.
1971: Malena Muyala, Uruguayan singer and composer.
1971: Karen McDougal, American model.
1972: Joe Calzaghe, British boxer.
1972: Nuria Roca, journalist and Spanish presenter.
1973: Jerzy Dudek, Polish footballer.
1973: Jason Kidd, American basketball player.
1976: Chris Hoy, British cyclist.
1976: Dougie Lampkin, British trial driver.
1976: Michelle Monaghan, American actress.
1976: Keri Russell, American actress.
1976: Ricardo Zonta, Brazilian driver of Formula 1.
1977: Alejandro de la Madrid, Mexican actor.
1978: Walter Samuel, Argentine footballer.
1978: Nicholle Tom, American actress.
1979: Ray Gordy, American professional fighter.
1981: Atsushi Abe, Japanese voice actor.
1981: Brett Young, singer and American composer.
1982: José Contreras, Chilean soccer player.
1983: Mohamed Farah, British athlete of Somali origin.
1983: Jerome Thomas, British footballer.
1985: Manuel Fortuna, Dominican basketball player.
1986: Steven Strait, American actor.
1986: Fabian Assmann, Argentine footballer.
1986: Andrea Dovizioso, Italian motorcycle rider.
1989: Formose Mendy, Senegalese footballer.
1990: Jaime Alguersuari, Spanish pilot of Formula 1.
1990: Eugenia de York, princess of the United Kingdom.
1991: Facundo Campazzo, Argentine basketball player.
1991: José Pablo Minor, Mexican actor.
1992: Kyrie Irving, American baloncestista.
Deaths
1022: Zhenzong, Chinese emperor (No. 968).
1369: Pedro I of Castile, Castilian king between 1350 and 1369 (n.1334).
1555: July III, Italian Catholic Pope (n.11487).
1606: Justo Lipsio, flamenco humanist (No. 1547).
1606: Toribio de Mogrovejo, Peruvian bishop (n 1538).
1613: Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont, Spanish military and inventor (f 1553).
1627: Ludovico Zacconi, Italian composer (No. 1555).
1748: Johann Gottfried Walther, German composer (No. 1684).
1779: Antonio Gómez, Spanish bishop (n 1711).
1813: Augusta of Hannover, British aristocrat (1737).
1842: Stendhal (Henri Beyle), French writer (born 1783).
1849: Andrés Manuel del Río, Spanish scientist (No. 1764).
1866: Juan José Lerena y Barry, Spanish sailor (n 1796).
1879: Eduardo Abaroa Hidalgo, Bolivian engineer and military man (1838).
1900: Lorenzo Casanova Ruiz, Spanish painter (1844).
1901: Konstantin Stoilov, Bulgarian politician (1853).
1904: Apolinário Porto-Alegre, Brazilian writer, historian, poet and journalist (1844).
1917: Carolina Muzzilli, Argentine socialist activist (1889).
1923: Marcos Mateo Conesa, Spanish military and one of the last of the Philippines (1876).
1942: Marcelo T. de Alvear, Argentine president (1868).
1943: Joseph Schillinger, Russian-Ukrainian composer and theorist (No. 1895).
1946: Alberto Ghiraldo, Argentinean anarchist writer (1875).
1946: Francisco Largo Caballero, politician and Spanish president between 1936 and 1937 (number 1869).
1947: Ferdinand Zecca, French filmmaker (born 1864).
1953: Raoul Dufy, painter, graphic artist and French textile designer (born 1877).
1955: Artur Bernardes, Brazilian politician, president between 1922 and 1926 (n.1875).
1964: Peter Lorre, Hungarian-American actor (born 1904).
1965: Mae Murray, American actress (born 1889).
1969: Arthur Lismer, Canadian painter (1895).
1970: Skull Murphy, Canadian professional wrestler (1930).
1971: Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer (1898).
1972: Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish dressmaker (1895).
1979: Antonio Brosa, Spanish violinist (born 1894).
1981: Claude Auchinleck, British military officer (born 1884).
1981: Mike Hailwood, British motorcycle and motorsport driver (born 1940).
1981: José María Moreno Galván, intellectual, Spanish journalist (born in 1923).
1985: Zoot Sims, American jazz saxophonist (born in 1925).
1992: Friedrich Hayek, Austrian philosopher, Nobel Prize winner in economics in 1974 (No. 1899).
1993: Nebuchadnezzar, Spanish clown (born in 1912).
1994: Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (1950).
1994: Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (born 1921).
1994: Álvaro del Portillo, Spanish bishop (born 1914).
1995: Alfons Deloor, Belgian cyclist (born 1910).
1999: Luis María Argaña, Paraguayan politician (born 1932).
2002: Gabriel Betancourt, Colombian politician (born 1918).
2003: Daniel Estrada Pérez, lawyer and Peruvian politician (born in 1947).
2006: Eloy de la Iglesia, Spanish filmmaker (born in 1944).
2006: Desmond Doss, conscientious objector American soldier (born in 1919).
2007: Paul Cohen, American mathematician (No. 1934).
2008: Hugo Correa, journalist and Chilean writer (No. 1926).
2009: Carlos Semprún Maura, writer, playwright and Spanish journalist (born in 1926).
2009: Raúl Macías, «El Ratón Macías», Mexican boxer (born 1934).
2009: Álvaro Ugaz Otoya, Peruvian journalist (1968).
2011: Elizabeth Taylor, British actress (born 1932).
2011: Juan Carlos Eguillor Uribarri, Spanish cartoonist, painter and engraver (born in 1947).
2012: Chico Anysio, Brazilian actor and comedian (born in 1931).
2014: Adolfo Suárez, lawyer and Spanish politician, president of the Government between 1976 and 1981 (born in 1932).
2015: Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore (No. 1923).
2016: Yolanda Angmen Chío, professor, adviser and Mexican intellectual (1950).
Celebrations
World Meteorological Day
Spain: Day of Family and Professional Conciliation.2
Bolivia: Day of the Sea, the loss of the department of the Litoral is remembered.
March 21-27: Week of solidarity with peoples who fight against racism and racial discrimination