About February 23
February 23, 2021 is the 54th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 311 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 343 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 23
- 303 –Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
- 1739 –Richard Palmer is identified at York Castle, by his former schoolteacher, as the outlaw Dick Turpin.
- 1820 –Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1941 –Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
- 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: The German town of Pforzheim is completely destroyed in a raid by 379 British bombers.
- 1955 –First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
- 1974 –The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
- 1980 –Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran’s parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
- 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.
- 1991 –Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.
- 1991 –In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
- 1999 –Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
- 2007 –A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 22. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.
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