The last spotting of the Xerces Blue butterfly was made. The species is believed to have gone extinct due to the expansion of San Francisco into its habitat.
Sarah Sundin's blog has a number of interesting items:
Today in World War II History—March 23, 1943: RAF drops 2000 tons of bombs on Dortmund, Germany. At El Guettar in Tunisia, US 1st Infantry Division manages to defeat German armor (10th Panzer Division).
She also discusses the Danish parliamentary elections, which took place in spite of Nazi occupation. The German occupation of Denmark, it might be noted, was quite odd in that Denmark retained its government and even retained its army while occupied.
The Social Democrats took 66 out of 148 seats. The Danish Nazi Party received a mere 3.3% of the vote.
The British troopship RMS Windsor Castle was sunk by an HE 111 off of Algiers. All on board save one of 2,700 were rescued by the Royal Navy.
The multinational commando raid styled Operation Roundabout, made up of two enlisted members of No. 12 Commando, four enlisted men of the 29th Ranger Battalion, and four Norwegian soldiers, commanded by a British officer and with an American officer in support, failed in its mission to destroy a bridge over a fjord when a Norwegian soldier dropped his machine gun magazine. The sound altered the Germans.
The 29th Ranger Battalion was short lived, existing only in 1943. It was made up of volunteers from the 29th Infantry Division and was trained by the British. The unit was successful but it did not have the supporter of higher headquarters and therefore was disbanded in October 1943 with its men sent back to their units.
The combination of hydrocodone and acetaminophen marketed as Vicodin was approved by the FDA.
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