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
- 303 –Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
- 1821 –Alexander Ypsilantis starts the Greek War of Independence in Iași, Wallachia, modern-day Romania.
- 1848 –The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins.
- 1887 –The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
- 1896 –The Tootsie Roll is invented.
- 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.
- 1905 –Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world’s first service club.
- 1909 –The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
- 1918 –First victory of Red Army over the Kaiser’s German troops near Narva and Pskov. In honor of this victory, the date is celebrated from 1923 onward as “Red Army Day”; it is renamed Defender of the Fatherland Day after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, and is colloquially known as “Men’s Day”.
- 1934 –Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
- 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: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
- 1945 –World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is completely destroyed in a raid by 379 British bombers.
- 1958 –Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
- 1974 –The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
- 1983 –The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
- 1998 –Osama bin Laden publishes a fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and “Crusaders”; the latter term is commonly interpreted to refer to the people of Europe and the United States.
- 1999 –An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
- 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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