Historical Events on February 23, Special Events on This Day
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What Happened on February 23rd This Day in History
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2019 | Atlas Air Flight 3591 crashes into Trinity Bay near Anahuac, Texas, killing all three people on board. |
| 2017 | The Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army captures Al-Bab from ISIL. |
| 2012 | A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured. |
| 2010 | Unknown criminals pour more than 2⿿1ⁿ2 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in northern Italy, sparking an environmental disaster. |
| 2008 | A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber crashes on Guam, marking the first operational loss of a B-2. |
| 2007 | A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 88. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents. |
| 1999 | Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah ÿcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey. |
| 1998 | In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42 people. |
| 1991 | In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan. |
| 1987 | Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud. |
| 1983 | The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri. |
| 1981 | In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies. |
| 1980 | Iran hostage crisis: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages. |
| 1974 | The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst. |
| 1966 | In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist. |
| 1954 | The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh. |
| 1947 | International Organization for Standardization is founded. |
| 1945 | World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a U.S. Navy hospital corpsman reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag. |
| 1945 | World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Baños internment camp. |
| 1945 | World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces. |
| 1945 | World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznaſ. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces. |
| 1945 | World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers. |
| 1944 | The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia. |
| 1943 | A fire breaks out at Saint Joseph's Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 35 children and one adult. |
| 1943 | Greek Resistance: The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth is founded in Greece. |
| 1942 | World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the coastline near Santa Barbara, California. |
| 1941 | Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg. |
| 1934 | Leopold III becomes King of Belgium. |
| 1927 | U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States. |
| 1927 | German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time. |
| 1917 | First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution (March 8 in the Gregorian calendar). |
| 1909 | The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire. |
| 1905 | Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club. |
| 1903 | Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity". |
| 1900 | Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails. |
| 1898 | ÿmile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing J'Accuse!, a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus. |
| 1887 | The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000. |
| 1886 | Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of aluminium from the electrolysis of aluminium oxide, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall. |
| 1885 | Sino-French War: French Army gains an important victory in the Battle of Đỿng ĐĿng in the Tonkin region of Vietnam. |
| 1883 | Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an anti-trust law. |
| 1870 | Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union. |
| 1861 | President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 1854 | The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared. |
| 1847 | Mexican-American War: Battle of Buena Vista: In Mexico, American troops under future president General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna. |
| 1836 | Texas Revolution: The Siege of the Alamo (prelude to the Battle of the Alamo) begins in San Antonio, Texas. |
| 1820 | Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed. |
| 1778 | American Revolutionary War: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army. |
| 1739 | At York Castle, the outlaw Dick Turpin is identified by his former schoolteacher. Turpin had been using the name Richard Palmer. |
| 1554 | Mapuche forces, under the leadership of Lautaro, score a victory over the Spanish at the Battle of Marihueñu in Chile. |
| 1455 | Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type. |
| 532 | Byzantine emperor Justinian I orders the building of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople ⿿ the Hagia Sophia. |
| 303 | Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution. |
Famous People Born on February 23
Here is a random list who born on February 23. For full list please click on the link above.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1988 | Nicolás Gaitán, Argentinian footballer |
| 1970 | Niecy Nash, American actress and producer |
| 1842 | Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher and author (d. 1906) |
| 1954 | Rajini Thiranagama, Sri Lankan physician and academic (d. 1989) |
| 1904 | Terence Fisher, English director and screenwriter (d. 1980) |
| 1975 | Ryan McCourt, Canadian artist |
| 1948 | Steve Priest, English singer-songwriter and bass player |
| 1899 | Erich Kästner, German author and poet (d. 1974) |
| 1969 | Michael Campbell, New Zealand golfer |
| 1951 | Ed "Too Tall" Jones, American football player and boxer |
Famous People Deaths On February 23
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on February 23. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1620 | Nicholas Fuller, English politician (b. 1543) |
| 2016 | Peter Lustig, German television host and author (b. 1937) |
| 943 | Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, (b. 884) |
| 908 | Li Keyong, Shatuo military governor during the Tang Dynasty in China (b. 856) |
| 715 | Al-Walid I, Umayyad caliph (b. 668) |
| 2006 | Telmo Zarra, Spanish footballer (b. 1921) |
| 1965 | Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian (b. 1890) |
| 2014 | Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech-English Holocaust survivor, pianist and educator (b. 1903) |
| 1946 | Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (b. 1885) |
| 1930 | Horst Wessel, German SA officer (b. 1907) |
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