About February 23
February 23, 2024 is the 54th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 312 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 341 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 23
- 1660 –Charles XI becomes King of Sweden.
- 1820 –Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.
- 1847 –Mexican-American War: Battle of Buena Vista – In Mexico, American troops under General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
- 1854 –The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared.
- 1896 –The Tootsie Roll is invented.
- 1905 –Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world’s first service club.
- 1917 –First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution.
- 1918 –First victory of Red Army over the Kaiser’s German troops near Narva and Pskov. In honor of this victory, the date is celebrated from 1923 onward as “Red Army Day”; it is renamed Defender of the Fatherland Day after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, and is colloquially known as “Men’s Day”.
- 1934 –Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
- 1941 –Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
- 1944 –The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia.
- 1945 –World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
- 1945 –World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U.S. Navy 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.
- 1947 –The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.
- 1954 –The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
- 1958 –Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
- 1987 –Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
- 2005 –The controversial French law on colonialism is passed, requiring teachers to teach the “positive values of colonialism”. After public outcry, it is repealed at the beginning of 2006.
- 2008 –A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit crashes on Guam. It is the first operational loss of a B-2.
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