Historical timeline for March 23

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 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.

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

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.

Official opening of Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India.

Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq.

The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.

Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.

Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.

Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes into the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, killing 75.

At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.

A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground alongside destroying a Starlifter by accident. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.

The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking the 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.

Angolan and Cuban forces defeat South Africa in the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale.