Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García, is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt. Date: March 23, 1982 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 23 📅 Events on this day in 1982 📅 On This Day (Today)
Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. Date: March 23, 1983 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 23 📅 Events on this day in 1983 📅 On This Day (Today)
Angolan and Cuban forces defeat South Africa in the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale. Date: March 23, 1988 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 23 📅 Events on this day in 1988 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking the 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War. Date: March 23, 1991 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 23 📅 Events on this…
Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes into the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, killing 75. Date: March 23, 1994 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 23 📅 Events on this day in 1994 📅 On This Day (Today)
A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground alongside destroying a Starlifter by accident. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster. Date: March 23, 1994 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅…
At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez. Date: March 23, 1994 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 23 📅 Events on this day in 1994 📅 On This Day (Today)
Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President. Date: March 23, 1996 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 23 📅 Events on this day in 1996 📅 On This Day (Today)
Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña. Date: March 23, 1999 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 23 📅 Events on this day in 1999 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji. Date: March 23, 2001 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 23 📅 Events on this day in 2001 📅 On This Day (Today)