March 23

Friday 23, 1962:

NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, was launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace initiative.

Monday 23, 1931:

Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt embrace the gallows during the Indian struggle for independence. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused.

Monday 23, 1857:

Death of Emile L'Angelier in Glasgow, Scotland -- possibly by the hand of Madeleine Smith.

Monday 23, 1801:

Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael Palace.

Thursday 23, 1775:

"give me liberty or give me death" at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia.