On This Day: March 23rd

An Aerospace Force Lockheed C-130 crashes during take-off in Puerto Leguízamo, Colombia, killing 69 people.

Israel Defense Forces kill 15 aid workers in the Rafah paramedic massacre.

A container ship runs aground and obstructs the Suez Canal for six days.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson puts the United Kingdom into its first national lockdown in response to COVID-19.

The Kazakh capital of Astana is renamed to Nur-Sultan.

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces capture the town of Baghuz in Eastern Syria, declaring military victory over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant after four years of fighting, although the group maintains a scattered presence and sleeper cells across Syria and Iraq.

President of Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigns from the presidency amid a mass corruption scandal before certain impeachment by the opposition-majority Congress of Peru.

The World Health Organization (WHO) reports cases of Ebola in the forested rural region of southeastern Guinea, marking the beginning of the largest Ebola outbreak in history.

The Affordable Care Act becomes law in the United States.

FedEx Express Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying from Guangzhou, China crashes at Tokyo's Narita International Airport, killing both the captain and the co-pilot.