On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry, in an address to the Virginia Provincial Convention reportedly declared, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”

In 1919, Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy.

In 1933, the German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act, which effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.

In 1942, the first Japanese Americans incarcerated by the U.S. Army during World War II arrived at the internment camp at Manzanar, California.

In 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, a $938 billion health care overhaul.

In 2021, a cargo ship the size of a skyscraper ran aground and became wedged in the Suez Canal, preventing passage of hundreds of ships until it was freed six days later.