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Events on March 23

• 1783 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart gives a major academy concert at the Vienna Burgtheater in the presence of Emperor Joseph II, during which several of his works are premiered, including the Haffner Symphony and Piano Concerto No. 13.
• 1819 The fraternity member Karl Ludwig Sand kills the author and Russian consul general August von Kotzebue in Mannheim because he sees him as an enemy of German unity. Months later, this serves as the impetus for the Carlsbad Decrees to combat liberal and national ideas in Germany.
• 1839 The use of O.K. as an abbreviation for oll korrect is documented for the first time in the Boston Morning Post.
• 1933 Two days after the Potsdam Day, the Reichstag passes the Enabling Act at the Kroll Opera – against the votes of the SPD under Otto Wels. The following day, it is proclaimed and thus enters into force as another step in the National Socialists' seizure of power.
• 1956 RCA releases Elvis Presley, the debut album by Elvis Presley—the first rock 'n' roll LP to reach No. 1 in the charts and sell more than one million copies.
• 1966 Two days after Konrad Adenauer's resignation, the CDU federal party convention elects Ludwig Erhard as its new party chairman.
• 1987 Willy Brandt resigns as federal chairman of the SPD after his nomination of Margarita Mathiopoulos as a candidate for the office of party chairwoman has been met with harsh criticism within the party.
• 1994 The last German soldiers from the Bundeswehr serving in UN Operation UNOSOM II leave Somalia.
• 1998 At the Academy Awards, James Cameron's film Titanic, which received 14 nominations and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in the lead roles, is honored with eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. This makes it one of the most successful films to date.
• 2001 After more than 15 years in Earth orbit, the Mir space station is deliberately brought down and burns up over the Pacific.
• 2007 The PlayStation 3 game console is released in Europe.
• 2013 In Castel Gandolfo, a reigning pope and an emeritus pope meet for the first time in the modern era: Francis and Benedict XVI.

Born on March 23

• 1881 Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and Nobel laureate
• 1882 Emmy Noether, German mathematician
• 1900 Erich Fromm, German-American psychoanalyst, philosopher and social psychologist
• 1912 Wernher von Braun, German-American rocket designer and spaceflight official
• 1931 Viktor Kortschnoi, Russian-Swiss chess player
• 1960 Yōko Tawada, Japanese writer
• 1970 Gianni Infantino, Swiss-Italian football official
• 1980 Asaf Avidan, Israeli folk rock musician
• 1990 Jaime Alguersuari, Spanish motor racing driver
• 1990 Eugenie of York, British princess

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „23. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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