What happened on 23 March?

14 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1933 Enabling Act Reichstag votes Hitler the power to legislate without parliament; effective end of the Weimar constitution.
2. 1927 Heisenberg's uncertainty principle Heisenberg shows you cannot simultaneously know position and momentum of a particle.
3. 1929 Born: Roger Bannister First sub-4-minute mile in 1954.
4. 1184 BCE Hector and Andromache at the Scaean Gate Iliad 6: the tenderest scene in the poem — Hector's plumed helmet frightens his baby son, and he laughs, and lifts it off, and prays for the boy.
5. 625 Battle of Uhud The Meccans avenge Badr below Mount Uhud; Muhammad is wounded and the Muslims fall back, though Medina itself is spared.
6. 1184 BCE The duel of Paris and Menelaus Iliad 3: the wronged husband against the thief, winner takes Helen — but Aphrodite snatches Paris from defeat and sets him down in his own bedchamber.
7. 2021 Suez Canal blockage by Ever Given Container ship grounds in Suez Canal, blocking global trade for six days.
8. 1184 BCE Diomedes wounds the gods Iliad 5: in his aristeia Diomedes cuts down Trojans by the score, wounds Aphrodite in the wrist — and drives a spear into Ares himself.
9. 1940 The Lahore Resolution demands Pakistan At its Lahore session the Muslim League formally resolves that India's Muslim-majority zones must be 'independent states' — the two-nation theory made policy. The word Pakistan app
10. 2010 Obama signs the Affordable Care Act After a year of bruising fights, Obama signs the most sweeping US health reform since Medicare, extending coverage to some twenty million Americans.
11. 1919 Mussolini founds the Fasci di Combattimento In a hall on Milan's Piazza San Sepolcro, the ex-socialist journalist Mussolini gathers war veterans and futurists into the first Fascist movement.
12. 1858 Rani Lakshmibai defends Jhansi The Rani holds her fort against Rose's siege guns for a fortnight, escapes by night with her son strapped to her back, and dies in the saddle at Gwalior.
13. 2003 Lose Yourself wins the Academy Award for Best Original Song Eminem's 8 Mile anthem: the first rap song to win the Oscar.
14. 1931 Execution of Bhagat Singh Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev are hanged in Lahore jail a day early and their bodies secretly cremated; the 23-year-old becomes a national martyr.