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| February 23rd |
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| About February 23rd is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 311 days remaining until the end of the calendar year (312 in leap years). Births 1729 - Josiah Hornblower, statesman, engineer 1868 - W. E. B. Du Bois, civil rights activist, sociologist, historian, author 1915 - Paul Tibbets, brigadier general (pilot of Enola Gay) 1923 - Dante Lavelli, Hall of Fame receiver 1940 - Peter Fonda, actor (Easy Rider) 1940 - Jackie Smith, Hall of Fame tight end 1951 - Patricia Richardson, actress (Home Improvement) 1965 - Veronica Webb, model, actress, journalist 1970 - Niecy Nash, actress (Reno 911!) 1994 - Dakota Fanning, actress (Charlotte's Web) Deaths 1848 - John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. President 1943 - Fred Biletnikoff, NFL Hall of Fame wide receiver 2009 - Tom Cole, playwright, screenwriter (Smooth Talk) Events 1836 - The Battle of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas. 1861 - President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C. amid reports of assassination plots. 1870 - The state of Mississippi is readmitted to the Union. 1940 - Fold singer Woody Guthrie writes his best-known song, "This Land is Your Land". 1945 - The historic photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, depicting five U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II, is taken by Joe Rosenthal. 1954 - The first mass injections of the new polio vaccine begin with children in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 1980 - Speed skater Eric Heiden wins the 10,000-m race at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid capturing his fifth gold medal. 1998 - Tornadoes strike central Florida killing 42 and destroying over 2,500 structures. 1997 - NBC controversially airs Schindler's List uncensored and uninterrupted. 1999 - The Slim Shady LP, the the second studio album from rapper Eminem, is released. 2006 - Dubai Ports World agrees to postpone its plans to take over six United States ports after harsh bipartisan criticism. |
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