Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for March 23rd: https://ko-fi.com/Post/March-23-Where-the-Wild-Things-Are-J3J01CDGAR
Bummer March 23rd
March 23, 1964: Character actor Peter Lorre, age 59, dies of a stroke after years of struggling with chronic pain and morphine addiction.
March 23, 1969: Assia Wevill, an advertising copywriter and poetry translator who escaped the Nazis as a young woman, drinks a glass of water laced with sleeping pills, drinks a glass of whisky, and turns on the gas in her apartment. She lies down on a mattress with her 4-year-old daughter Alexandria (nicknamed Shura) and they both die of asphyxiation. Shura’s father was English poet Ted Hughes, the widower of Sylvia Plath. Hughes and Wevill (married to a Canadian poet) allegedly began their affair before Plath’s suicide.
March 23, 1993: Cleveland Indians pitcher Tim Crews, intoxicated, drives his boat at a high rate of speed into a dock on his property in Little Lake Nellie in Clermont, Florida. Crews kills himself and teammate Steve Olin and seriously injures teammate Bob Ojeda.
March 23, 2021: Worldwide shipping is disrupted when the container ship Ever Given runs aground in the Suez Canal, blocking passage for six days.
