This Day In History: March 23

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Patrick Henry says this popular quote, "Give me liberty or give me death" at the Virginia Convention on March 23rd. Along with that event, President Ronald Reagan called for a space based defense system, which many called Star Wars after the popular movie series. Lee Teng-Hui became the first democratically elected president of Taiwan on March 23, and The Boston Morning Post included the phrase OK, when it first became mainstream in our vocabulary.


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