📜 This Day in History

March 23

• 625The Muslim army under Muhammad suffered a defeat against the Quraysh in the Battle of Uhud.
• 1862American 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.
• 1908American 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.
• 1982Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García was overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.
• 1994Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into a hillside in Russia's Kemerovo Oblast, killing all 75 people on board, after the pilot's 15-year-old son unknowingly disabled the autopilot while seated at the controls.
• 2025Gaza war: Israel Defense Forces killed 15 aid workers in the Rafah paramedic massacre.

Born on this day

• 1749Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (died 1827)
• 1900Erich Fromm, German psychologist and sociologist (died 1980)
• 1910Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director, producer and screenwriter (died 1998)
• 1912Wernher von Braun, German-American physicist and engineer, chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle (died 1977)