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
- 1739 –Richard Palmer is identified at York Castle, by his former schoolteacher, as the outlaw Dick Turpin.
- 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.
- 1854 –The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared.
- 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.
- 1903 –Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States “in perpetuity”.
- 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.
- 1917 –First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution.
- 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: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Baños internment camp.
- 1954 –The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
- 1983 –The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
- 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.
- 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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