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Saturday, March 23, 1850
Saturday, March 23, 1850 falls on a Saturday. It is day 82 of the year, ISO week 12, in Q1.
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Saturday, March 23
March 23, 1850 is day 82 of 365, ISO week 12, in Q1. The moon is Waxing Gibbous and the zodiac sign is Aries.
Day of year82
ISO week12
QuarterQ1
Days left283
Sun and Moon Cycles
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous
- Lunar age
- 9.9 days
- Illumination
- 76%
- Season
- Spring in the Northern Hemisphere, autumn in the Southern Hemisphere
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- Zodiac
- Aries
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March 23
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Gregory the Illuminator (Episcopal Church)
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Gwinear
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Joseph Oriol
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Ottone Frangipane
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Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès (Maronite Church)
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Turibius of Mogrovejo
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Victorian, Frumentius and Companions
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March 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Gaza war: Israel Defense Forces killed 15 aid workers in the Rafah paramedic massacre.
A container ship ran aground and obstructed the Suez Canal for six days.
A fire and explosion at an oil refinery in Texas City, the third-largest in the United States, killed 15 workers.
The Russian space agency deorbited the space station Mir, causing it to reenter the Earth's atmosphere and break up over the Pacific Ocean.
Lee Teng-hui was elected President of the Republic of China in the first direct presidential election in Taiwan.
Aeroflot 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.
The demolition of Kowloon Walled City, a densely crowded slum in Hong Kong, began.
The Sierra Leone Civil War began with the invasion of the Revolutionary United Front, in an attempt to overthrow President Joseph Saidu Momoh.
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Valerie Perrine, American actress (born 1943)
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Chip Taylor, American singer and songwriter (born 1940)
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Mia Love, American politician (born 1975)
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Madeleine Albright, Czechoslovak-American diplomat, 64th United States Secretary of State (born 1937)
2021
George Segal, American actor (born 1934)
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Julie Pomagalski, French snowboarder (born 1980)
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