EST. DECEMBER 1994 • 30+ YEARS ONLINE
yow.com 🐯
Owned continuously since 1994
TODAY IN HISTORY
March 23
Monday, March 23, 2026
Day 81 of 2026 | Week 13 | 278 days until Christmas 🎅
HISTORIC EVENTS
Israel Defense Forces kill 15 aid workers in the Rafah paramedic massacre.
A container ship runs aground and obstructs the Suez Canal for six days.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson put the United Kingdom into its first national lockdown in response to COVID-19.
The Kazakh capital of Astana was renamed to Nur-Sultan.
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces capture the town of Baghuz in Eastern Syria, declaring military victory over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant after four years of fighting, although the group maintains a scattered presence and sleeper cells across Syria and Iraq.
President of Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigns from the presidency amid a mass corruption scandal before certain impeachment by the opposition-majority Congress of Peru.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports cases of Ebola in the forested rural region of southeastern Guinea, marking the beginning of the largest Ebola outbreak in history.
The Affordable Care Act becomes law in the United States.
FedEx Express Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying from Guangzhou, China crashes at Tokyo's Narita International Airport, killing both the captain and the co-pilot.
Official opening of Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
English rock singer-songwriter
American novelist (A Slight Trick of the Mind)
American rock drummer
American actress (Once and Again
MLB pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
American poet (A Glossary of Chickens
NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
British rower (5 Olympic gold medals 1984-2000) world's most successful male rower
American singer-songwriter
British politician
Lithuanian swimmer (Olympic gold USSR 200m breaststroke 1980)
American comedian and comedian (SNL)
American actress (Captain Philips
Belgian cyclist
American fashion designer
🎯 yow.com Connection
On March 9, 1994 - just months before yow.com would be registered - the internet was still in its infancy. There were only about 3,000 websites in existence, and most people accessed the web through 14.4kbps dial-up modems. Today, you're visiting a domain that has survived 30+ years of that incredible evolution.
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