Today In History For March 23rd

Today is Wednesday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2011. There are 283 days left in the year.

In 1806, explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, began their journey back east.

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 1965, America's first two-person space flight began as Gemini 3 blasted off with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard for a nearly 5-hour flight.

Ten years ago: Russia's orbiting Mir space station ended its 15-year odyssey with a fiery plunge into the South Pacific.

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