About February 23
February 23, 2020 is the 54th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 312 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 355 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.
- 1820 –Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.
- 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.
- 1847 –Mexican-American War: Battle of Buena Vista – In Mexico, American troops under General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
- 1848 –The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1991 –In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
- 1997 –A small fire occurs in the Russian Space station, Mir.
- 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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