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
- 1846 –John Henry Newman leaves the Church of England and is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1847 –Mexican-American War: Battle of Buena Vista – In Mexico, American troops under General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
- 1887 –The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
- 1900 –In South Africa, Boers and British troops fight in the Battle of Hart’s Hill.
- 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.
- 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: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Baños internment camp.
- 1945 –World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is completely destroyed in a raid by 379 British bombers.
- 1954 –The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1998 –In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42.
- 1999 –Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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