These historical events took place on March 23rd:
1775: Patrick Henry proclaims “Give me liberty or give me death” in his speech in favor of the Virginian troops joining the United States Revolutionary War.
1839: The first recorded use of “OK” in the Boston’s Morning Post.
1857: Elisha Otis installs his first elevator at 488 Broadway in New York City.
1867: Congress passes Second Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson’s veto.
1882: The Edmunds Act, Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act, was adopted by the United States to suppress polygamy with 1300 men that were later imprisoned under the act.
1896: The Raines Law was passed by the New York State Legislature that restricted Sunday sale of alcohol to hotels.
1903: The Wright brothers filed the first patent for a flying machine, which was granted three years later.
1922: The first airplane landed at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
1929: The first telephone was installed at the President’s desk under the Hoover administration at the White House.
1936: Physician Joseph G. Hamilton injected a leukemia patient with a sodium radioisotope, first intravenous injection of a human with a radioisotope.
1945: United States Navy ships bombed the Japanese island of Okinawa in preparation for the Allied invasion; it would become the largest battle of the Pacific War in World War II, known as the Battle of Okinawa.