Top 10 March 23 Birthdays
10. March 23, 1823: Schuyler Colfax. He served Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives frim 1855 to 1869, and was Speaker of the House from 1863 to 1869. He was elected Vice President on Ulysses S. Grant's ticket in 1868, but made a big mistake, presuming that Grant wouldn't run for re-election in 1872, and preparing his own run for President. Once it became clear that Grant would run again, it would be with a different Vice President. Colfax never ran for office again. 9. March 23, 1937: Craig Breedlove. From 1963 to 1965, all his car Spirit of America , all at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, he set land speed records, going 407, 468, 526, 555 and 600 miles per hour. As recently as 1997, in a later version of Spirit of America , he got up to 676. But, within days of that attempt, in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, in Thrust SSC , Englishman Andy Green went 760, to become the 1st man to surpass the speed of sound on land. 8. March 23, 1954: Kenneth...