Template:Selected anniversaries/March 23
1749: Mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.
1882: Mathematician Emmy Noether born. Noether will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
1897: Mathematician, physicist, and academic John Lighton Synge born. He will be a prolific author and influential mentor, and be credited with the introduction of a new geometrical approach to the theory of relativity.
1945: First publication of Middle-earth Farm, an allegorial novel by George Orwell and J.R.R. Tolkien.
1977: The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.
2001: The Mir spacecraft is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years.