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This day in history: March 23

1. 1991

   The Sierra Leone Civil War began with the invasion of the Revolutionary United Front, in an attempt to overthrow President Joseph Saidu Momoh.

2. 1993

   The demolition of Kowloon Walled City, a densely crowded slum in Hong Kong, began.

3. 1994

   Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into a hillside in Russia's Kemerovo Oblast, killing all 75 people on board, after the pilot's 15-year-old son unknowingly disabled the autopilot while seated at the controls.

4. 1996

   Lee Teng-hui was elected President of the Republic of China in the first direct presidential election in Taiwan.

5. 2001

   The Russian space agency deorbited the space station Mir, causing it to reenter the Earth's atmosphere and break up over the Pacific Ocean.

6. 2005

   A fire and explosion at an oil refinery in Texas City, the third-largest in the United States, killed 15 workers.

7. 2021

   A container ship ran aground and obstructed the Suez Canal for six days.

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