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February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar . There are 311 days remaining, 312 in leap years .
Events 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible , the first Western book printed from movable type . 1574 - The 5th holy war against the Huguenots begins in France . 1660 - Charles XI becomes king of Sweden . 1732 - First performance of George Frideric Handel 's Orlando , in London . 1778 - American Revolution : Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge , Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army . 1820 - Cato Street Conspiracy : A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed. 1821 - The Philadelphia College of Apothecaries founds the first pharmacy college . 1836 - The Siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas . 1847 - Mexican-American War : Battle of Buena Vista - In Mexico , American troops defeat Mexican general Antonio López de Santa Anna . 1861 - President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, DC after an assassination attempt in Baltimore, Maryland . 1870 - Military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union. 1874 - Walter Winfield patents a game called "sphairistike" which is more commonly called lawn tennis . 1883 - Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an antitrust law . 1887 - The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake , killing around 2,000. 1893 - Rudolf Diesel receives a patent for the diesel engine . 1898 - Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing J'accuse which was a letter accusing the French government of anti-Semitism and wrongfully placing Alfred Dreyfus in jail. 1900 - Battle of Hart's Hill : In South Africa the Boers and British troops battle. 1903 - Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity". 1904 - For $10 million the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone. 1905 - Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club , the world's first service club . 1909 - The Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire . 1917 - The Russian Revolution begins. 1919 - Benito Mussolini forms the Fascist Party in Italy . 1927 - The Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission ) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies. 1934 - Leopold III becomes King of Belgium . 1940 - World War II : Soviet Union troops conquer Lasi Island . 1940 - The animated movie Pinocchio is released. 1945 - Following the American victory at the Battle of Iwo Jima , a group of United States Marines reach the top of Mount Surabachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag . The photo would later win a Pulitzer Prize . 1945 - World War II: The capital of the Philippines , Manila , is liberated by American forces. 1945 - World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznan , city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces. 1947 - International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.
1950-1999 1954 - The first mass vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . 1955 - First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO). 1955 - Edgar Faure becomes Prime Minister of France 1956 - Nikita Khrushchev attacks the veneration of Joseph Stalin as a "cult of personality ". 1958 - Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio . 1963 - Alaura O'Dell, aka Paula P-Orridge born in Westminster , London 1966 - A military coup in Syria replaces the previous government. 1974 - The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst . 1980 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran 's parliament would decide the fate of the American embassy hostages. 1981 - Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies . 1982 - The Spanish Socialist government of Felipe González and Miguel Boyer nationalizes Rumasa , a holding of José María Ruiz Mateos . 1983 - The Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin -contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri . 1987 - A supernova is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud (see Supernova 1987a ). 1991 - Gulf War : Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabia border and enter Iraq , thus starting the ground-phase of the war. 1991 - Thailand : General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état , deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan . 1993 - Gary Coleman wins a $1,280,000 lawsuit against his parents. 1998 - Tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42. 1998 - Osama bin Laden publishes fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Crusaders . 1998 - Netscape Communications Corporation announced the foundation of mozilla.org , to co-ordinate the development of the open source Mozilla web browser . 1999 - Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara , Turkey . 1999 - White supremacist John William King is found guilty of kidnapping and killing African American James Byrd Jr by dragging him behind a truck for two miles. 1999 - An avalanche destroys the Austrian vilage of Galtür, killing 31.
Births 1418 - Pope Paul II (d. 1471 ) 1633 - Samuel Pepys , diarist (d. 1703 ) 1685 - Georg Friederich Händel , composer (d. 1759 ) 1743 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild , banker (d. 1812 ) 1840 - Carl Menger , economist (d. 1921 ) 1868 - W.E.B. DuBois , civil rights leader (d. 1963 ) 1882 (allegedly) - B. Traven , writer (d. 1969 ) 1883 - Victor Fleming , director (d. 1949 ) 1883 - Karl Jaspers , philosopher (d. 1969 ) 1899 - Erich Kästner , lyricist and narrator (d. 1974 ) 1899 - Elisabeth Langgässer , lyricist, narrator and novelist (d. 1950 ) 1904 - Leopold Trepper , Soviet spy in WWII (d. 1982 ) 1908 - William McMahon , twentieth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1988 ) 1915 - Paul Tibbets , pilot of the "Enola Gay ", the plane which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima , Japan 1928 - Vasili Lazarev , cosmonaut (d. 1990 ) 1932 - Majel Barrett , actress 1939 - Peter Fonda , actor 1943 - Fred Biletnikoff , American football star, coach 1944 - Johnny Winter , musician 1951 - Patricia Richardson , actress 1954 - Viktor Yushchenko , Ukraine , President 1955 - Howard Jones , musician 1994 - Dakota Fanning , actress
Deaths 1447 - Pope Eugenius IV (b. 1383 ) 1730 - Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649 ) 1766 - Stanislaw Leszczynski , King of Poland (b. 1677 ) 1821 - John Keats , English Romantic poet (b. 1795 ) 1848 - John Quincy Adams , 6th President of the United States (b. 1767 ) 1855 - Carl Friedrich Gauss , mathematician, astronomer, physicist (b. 1777 ) 1923 - Théophile Delcassé , French statesman (b. 1852 ) 1930 - Horst Wessel , Nazi ideologue, composer 1934 - Edward Elgar , composer (b. 1857 ) 1965 - Stan Laurel , actor, comedian (b. 1890 ) 1974 - Harry Ruby , composer, writer 1979 - W.A.C. Bennett , British Columbia politician (b. 1900 ) 1990 - José Napoleón Duarte , President of El Salvador 1995 - James Herriot , writer (b. 1916 ) 2000 - Ofra Haza , Israeli singer (b. 1957 ) 2003 - Robert K. Merton , sociologist (b. 1910 ) 2003 - Marcel Prawy , jurist 2004 - Vijay Anand , Bollywood film director
Holidays and observances February 22 - February 24 - January 23 - March 23 -- listing of all days
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