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
- 1821 –Alexander Ypsilantis starts the Greek War of Independence in Iași, Wallachia, modern-day Romania.
- 1836 –The Battle of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
- 1846 –John Henry Newman leaves the Church of England and is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1848 –The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins.
- 1883 –Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an antitrust law.
- 1903 –Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States “in perpetuity”.
- 1905 –Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world’s first service club.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the California coastline near Santa Barbara.
- 1943 –A fire breaks out at St. Joseph’s Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 36 people (35 of whom are children).
- 1945 –World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
- 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.
- 1966 –In Syria, Baath party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin Hafiz, also a Baathist.
- 1981 –In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
- 1987 –Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
- 1991 –Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.
- 1997 –A small fire occurs in the Russian Space station, Mir.
- 1999 –An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
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