Today is Thursday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2017. There are 283 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight: On March 23, 1792, Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 94 in G Major (known as the “Surprise” symphony because of an unexpected crashing chord in the second movement) had its first public performance in London.
On this date:
In 1775, Patrick Henry delivered an address to the Virginia Provincial Convention in which he is said to have declared, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
In 1806, explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, began their journey back east.
In 1942, the first Japanese-Americans evacuated by the U.S. Army during World War II arrived at the internment camp in Manzanar, California.
In 1994, Aeroflot Flight 593, an Airbus A310, crashed in Siberia with the loss of all 75 people on board; it turned out that a pilot’s teenage son who was allowed to sit at the controls had accidentally disengaged the autopilot, causing the jetliner to go out of control.
The U.S. Army formally charged Staff Sgt. Robert Bales with 17 counts of premeditated murder in the deaths of 17 villagers, more than half of them children, during a shooting rampage in Afghanistan.
Today’s birthdays: Sir Roger Bannister (the runner who broke the 4-minute mile in 1954) is 88. International Motorsports Hall of Famer Craig Breedlove is 80. Actress Keri Russell is 41.
Thought for today: “In anger, you look 10 years older.” — Hedda Hopper, American gossip columnist (1890-1966).
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