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
- 1455 –Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
- 1739 –Richard Palmer is identified at York Castle, by his former schoolteacher, as the outlaw Dick Turpin.
- 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.
- 1848 –The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins.
- 1870 –In the United States, post-Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
- 1896 –The Tootsie Roll is invented.
- 1917 –First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution.
- 1934 –Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
- 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: 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 German town of Pforzheim is completely destroyed in a raid by 379 British bombers.
- 1955 –First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
- 1980 –Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran’s parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
- 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.
- 1998 –In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42.
- 1999 –An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
- 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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