About February 23

February 23, 2025 is the 54th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 311 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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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 359 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On February 23

  • 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.
  • 1861 –
    President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
  • 1870 –
    In the United States, post-Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
  • 1886 –
    Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of man-made aluminum, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister Julia Brainerd Hall.
  • 1898 –
    Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing “J'accuse”, a letter accusing the French government of anti-Semitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
  • 1909 –
    The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
  • 1917 –
    First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution.
  • 1927 –
    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.
  • 1941 –
    Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
  • 1942 –
    World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the California coastline near Santa Barbara.
  • 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: The German town of Pforzheim is completely destroyed in a raid by 379 British bombers.
  • 1945 –
    World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American 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.
  • 1983 –
    The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
  • 1987 –
    Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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