Wikislippy:Selected anniversaries/March 23
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- 1174 - Jocelin, abbot of Melrose, is elected bishop of Glasgow.
- 1903 - The Wright Brothers apply for a patent on their invention of one of the first successful airplanes.
- 1909 - Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa.
- 2001 - The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.