About February 23
February 23, 2023 is the 54th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 311 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 352 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 23
- 1660 –Charles XI becomes King of Sweden.
- 1821 –Alexander Ypsilantis starts the Greek War of Independence in Iași, Wallachia, modern-day Romania.
- 1846 –John Henry Newman leaves the Church of England and is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1883 –Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an antitrust law.
- 1896 –The Tootsie Roll is invented.
- 1900 –In South Africa, Boers and British troops fight in the Battle of Hart’s Hill.
- 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”.
- 1943 –A fire breaks out at St. Joseph’s Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 36 people (35 of whom are children).
- 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 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Baños internment camp.
- 1947 –The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.
- 1955 –First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
- 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.
- 1997 –A small fire occurs in the Russian Space station, Mir.
- 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.
- 2010 –Unknown criminals pour more than 2.5 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in Northern Italy, causing an environmental disaster.
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