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Monday, March 23, 2026 at 10:33 UTC  • Anonymous

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Weather — London
10.4°C

Overcast

Wind
1.8 km/h
Country
United Kingdom
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On This Day
  • 1775 American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – "Give me liberty or give me death!" – at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.
  • 1977 The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) is videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.
  • 1994 A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground alongside destroying a Starlifter by accident. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.
  • 1996 Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
  • 2003 Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq.
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NASA Photo of the Day
Light Pillars and Orion over Mohe
Light Pillars and Orion over Mohe

What's happening at the end of that street? Pictured here are not auroras but light pillars, a phenomenon typically much closer. In most places on Earth, a lucky viewer can see a Sun pillar, a column of light appearing to extend up from the Sun caused by flat fluttering ice-crystals reflecting ...

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2026-03-23 • via NASA