Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 23

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 * 1400 – After 175 years of rule, the Trần dynasty of Vietnam was deposed by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
 * 1775 – American Revolution: Patrick Henry made his "Give me liberty, or give me death!" speech to the House of Burgesses of Virginia, urging military action against the British Empire.
 * 1839 – An earthquake struck central Burma, causing significant damage and killing an estimated 300 to 400 people.
 * 1862 – American Civil War: General Stonewall Jackson of the Confederate States Army lost the First Battle of Kernstown, but was still able to prevent the Union Army from reinforcing the Peninsula campaign.
 * 1905 – About 1,500 Cretans, led by Eleftherios Venizelos, met at the village of Theriso to call for the island's unification with Greece, beginning the Theriso revolt.
 * 1908 – American diplomat Durham Stevens, an employee of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was fatally shot in San Francisco by two Korean immigrants unhappy with his support of increased Japanese presence in Korea.
 * 1919 – Benito Mussolini and his supporters founded the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, the predecessor of the National Fascist Party.
 * 1933 – The Nazi Party took the first step in the Gleichschaltung process by having the Enabling Act passed, giving the government the right to make laws without the involvement of the Reichstag.
 * 1977 – British journalist David Frost began a series of interviews with former U.S. president Richard Nixon, starting with the Watergate scandal.
 * 1991 – The Sierra Leone Civil War began with the invasion of the Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, in an attempt to overthrow President Joseph Saidu Momoh.
 * 1993 – The demolition of Kowloon Walled City (pictured), a densely crowded slum in Hong Kong, began.
 * 1996 – Lee Teng-hui (pictured) was elected President of the Republic of China in the first direct presidential election in Taiwan.
 * Born/died this day: | Jahanara Begum |b|1614| Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado |b|1643| Nathaniel Reed |b|1862|Calouste Gulbenkian |b|1869| Juan Gris |b|1887| Hovhannes Tumanyan |d|1923| Henri Berény |d|1932| Said Nursî |d|1960| Beatrice Tinsley |d|1981| Mo Farah |b|1983| Ben Hollioake |d|2002