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What Happened on February 23rd This Day in History

Year	Name
2021	Four simultaneous prison riots leave at least 62 people dead in Ecuador.
2020	Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old African-American citizen, is shot and murdered by three white men after visiting a house under construction while jogging at a neighborhood in Satilla Shores near Brunswick in Glynn County, Georgia.
2019	Atlas Air Flight 3591, a Boeing 767 freighter, 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.
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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 Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
1999	An avalanche buries the town of Galtür, Austria, killing 31.[13]
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.
1988	Saddam Hussein begins the Anfal genocide against Kurds and Assyrians in northern Iraq.
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.
1971	Operation Lam Son 719: South Vietnamese General Do Cao Tri was killed in a helicopter crash en route to taking control of the faltering campaign.
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.
1958	Five-time Argentine Formula One champion Juan Manuel Fangio is kidnapped by rebels involved in the Cuban Revolution, on the eve of the Cuban Grand Prix. He was released the following day after the race.
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 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 all 2,147 captives of the Los Baños internment camp, in what General Colin Powell later would refer to as "the textbook airborne operation for all ages and all armies."
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 Poznań. 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	The Cavan Orphanage fire kills thirty-five girls and an elderly cook.
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".
1901	present
1900	Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
1898	Émile 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 Đồng Đăng 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 and the conspirators arrested.
1778	American Revolutionary War: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to help to train the Continental Army.
1763	Berbice slave uprising in Guyana: The first major slave revolt in South America.[6]
1601	1900
1455	Traditionally the date of publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
705	Empress Wu Zetian abdicates the throne, restoring the Tang dynasty.
628	Khosrow II, last Sasanian shah of Iran, is overthrown.
532	Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople
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

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Year	Name
1943	Bobby Mitchell, American golfer (d. 2018)
1938	Sylvia Chase, American broadcast journalist (d. 2019)
1971	Melinda Messenger, English model and television host
1938	Diane Varsi, American actress (d. 1992)
1873	Liang Qichao, Chinese journalist, philosopher, and scholar (d. 1929)
1792	José Joaquín de Herrera, Mexican politician and general (d. 1854)
1990	Marco Scandella, Canadian ice hockey player
1899	Norman Taurog, American director and screenwriter (d. 1981)
1927	Jessica Huntley, Guyanese activist and publisher (d. 2013)
1583	Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer (d. 1656)

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
1603	Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (b. 1519)
2013	Eugene Bookhammer, American soldier and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (b. 1918)
908	Li Keyong, Shatuo military governor during the Tang Dynasty in China (b. 856)
1965	Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian (b. 1890)
1979	W. A. C. Bennett, Canadian businessman and politician, 25th Premier of British Columbia (b. 1900)
1781	George Taylor, Founding Father of the United States (b. 1716)
1976	L. S. Lowry, English painter (b. 1887)
1879	Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and politician, 10th Minister President of Prussia (b. 1803)
2006	Muhammad Shamsul Huq, Bangladeshi academic and former Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1912)
1855	Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)