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This is a list of selected March 23 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
; Day of Hungarian–Polish Friendship in Hungary and Poland refimprove section
Pakistan Day (1956) multiple issues
1801 – Tsar Alexander I acceded to the Russian throne after his father Paul I was murdered in his bedroom at Saint Michael's Castle. Alexander: lots of CN tags (29); Paul: lots of CN tags (9) esp in one section, plus many other paragraphs without citations
1848 – Scottish settlers on the John Wickliffe, captained by William Cargill, arrived at present-day Port Chalmers in Otago, New Zealand. tagged
1868 – Governor of California Henry Huntly Haight signed a law establishing the University of California, today a public university system that is considered a model for public institutions across the United States. refimprove section
1879 – Fighting in the War of the Pacific between Chile and a Peruvian–Bolivian alliance opened with the Battle of Topáter. undue weight, original research refimprove section
1889Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founded the Ahmadiyya Islamic religious movement in British India. improve citations
1933 – The Enabling Act was passed, essentially giving German Chancellor Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers by granting him and the Cabinet the authority to enact laws without the participation of the Reichstag. refimprove section
1940Pakistan Movement: During its three-day general session, the Muslim League drafted the Lahore Resolution, calling for greater autonomy in British India. refimprove section
1965NASA launched Gemini 3, the first American two-person space flight. refimprove
1978 – The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon was dispatched to confirm Israeli withdrawal after its invasion nine days earlier. unreferenced section
1983 – The initial proposal to develop the Strategic Defense Initiative, a ground-based and space-based system to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles, was released. refimprove section
1994 – Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta was assassinated during a meeting on his presidential campaign in Tijuana. multiple issues
2001 – The Russian space agency deorbited the space station Mir, causing it to reenter the Earth's atmosphere and break up over the Pacific Ocean. refimprove
2006 – The remaining three Christian Peacemaker Teams hostages were rescued from their Iraqi captors by a multinational force. refimprove
2007 – The Iranian military arrested 15 Royal Navy personnel, claiming that they had entered Iran's territorial waters. improve citations
Zhou Chi |d|851 Wikisource page that was source for death date has been deleted
Emmy Noether |b|1882 refimprove section
Moses Malone |b|1955| Birthday not cited

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March 23: Earth Hour (20:30 local time, 2024)

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