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Events on the 23rd of February in history

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23 Feb 0303 Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
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23 Feb 0303 Emperor Diocletian orders general persecution of Christians
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23 Feb 0532 Byzantine emperor Justinian I orders the building of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople – the Hagia Sophia.
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23 Feb 1455 Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
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23 Feb 1455 Johannes Gutenberg prints 1st book, the Bible (estimated date)
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23 Feb 1554 Mapuche forces, under the leadership of Lautaro, score a victory over the Spanish at the Battle of Marihueñu in Chile.
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23 Feb 1574 France begins 5th Holy War against Huguenots
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23 Feb 1660 Charles XI becomes king of Sweden
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23 Feb 1668 Fire in Wiener Hofburg in Vienna, emperor Leopold I rescued
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23 Feb 1672 Joan Blaeus publishers destroyed by fire in Amsterdam
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23 Feb 1689 Dutch prince William III proclaimed king of England
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23 Feb 1739 Richard Palmer is identified at York Castle, by his former schoolteacher, as the outlaw Dick Turpin.
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23 Feb 1778 American Revolutionary War: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army.
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23 Feb 1778 Baron von Steuben joins the Continental Army at Valley Forge
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23 Feb 1792 Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated (erected life-saving stations for distressed mariners)
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23 Feb 1792 Joseph Haydn's 94th Symphony in G, premieres
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23 Feb 1804 Conspirators against Napoleon, for restoration of Louis XVIII
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23 Feb 1813 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham, Massachusetts
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23 Feb 1820 Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.
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23 Feb 1820 Cato Street conspiracy uncovered
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23 Feb 1821 Alexander Ypsilantis starts the Greek War of Independence in Iași, Wallachia (now part of Romania).
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23 Feb 1821 College of Apothecaries organized in Philadelphia; 1st US pharmacy college
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23 Feb 1822 Boston is incorporated as a city
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23 Feb 1836 Texas Revolution: The Battle of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
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23 Feb 1836 Alamo besieged by Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed
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23 Feb 1846 Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated
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23 Feb 1847 Mexican–American War: Battle of Buena Vista – In Mexico, American troops under future president General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
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23 Feb 1847 Battle of Buena Vista, M
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23 Feb 1852 "H M S Birkenhead" sinks off South Africa killing 420 troops
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23 Feb 1854 The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared.
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23 Feb 1854 Great-Britain & Orange Free state sign Convention of Bloemfontein
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23 Feb 1861 President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
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23 Feb 1861 By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US
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23 Feb 1861 Dutch Premier Floris A van Hall resigns
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23 Feb 1861 President-elect Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington DC to take office
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23 Feb 1869 Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law
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23 Feb 1870 Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
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23 Feb 1870 Mississippi is re-admitted to US
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23 Feb 1874 Major Walter Winfield patents game called "sphairistike" (lawn tennis)
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23 Feb 1883 Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an anti-trust law.
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23 Feb 1883 American Anti-Vivisection Society organized (Philadelphia)
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23 Feb 1885 Sino-French War: French Army gains an important victory in the Battle of Đồng Đăng in the Tonkin region of Vietnam.
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23 Feb 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.
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23 Feb 1886 Aluminum manufacturing process developed
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23 Feb 1886 London Times publishes world's 1st classified ad
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23 Feb 1886 Tsjaikovski's symphony "Manfred" premieres
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23 Feb 1887 The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
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23 Feb 1887 Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco
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23 Feb 1887 French/Italian Riviera struck by Earthquake; 2,000 die
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23 Feb 1892 1st college student government forms at Bryn Mawr Penn
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23 Feb 1892 1st college student government established, Bryn Mawr PA
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23 Feb 1894 Stanley Cup Montr
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23 Feb 1895 William Heard, AME minister & educator, named minister to Liberia
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23 Feb 1895 Jaap Eden skates world record 10 km (17:56)
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23 Feb 1896 The Tootsie Roll is invented.
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23 Feb 1896 Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield
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23 Feb 1898 Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
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23 Feb 1898 In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing government of anti-Semitism & wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus
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23 Feb 1900 Steamer "Rio de Janeiro" sinks in SF Bay
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23 Feb 1900 Second Boer War: Boers and British troops fight in the Battle of Hart's Hill.
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23 Feb 1900 Steamer "Rio de Janeiro" sinks in San Francisco Bay
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23 Feb 1900 Battle at Hart's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
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23 Feb 1903 Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
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23 Feb 1903 Cuban state of Guantanamo leased to USA
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23 Feb 1904 US acquired control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million
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23 Feb 1904 Control of Panam
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23 Feb 1905 Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
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23 Feb 1905 Rotary Club International established by 4 men in Chicago
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23 Feb 1906 Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
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23 Feb 1906 Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart for heavyweight boxing champion in 20 rounds
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23 Feb 1909 The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
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23 Feb 1909 Russian tsar Nicolas II dissolves Finnish Diet
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23 Feb 1910 1st radio contest held (Philadelphia)
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23 Feb 1910 George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance" premieres in London
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23 Feb 1915 Germany sinks US ships Carib and Evelyn and torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin
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23 Feb 1915 Nevada enforces convenient divorce law
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23 Feb 1916 Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial $1 gold coin
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23 Feb 1916 French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun
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23 Feb 1917 First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution.
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23 Feb 1917 February revolution begins in Russia
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23 Feb 1918 Last monarch of Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz commits suicide.
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23 Feb 1919 Fascist Party forms in Italy by Benito Mussolini
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23 Feb 1919 Benito Mussolini founds the Facist party of Italy
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23 Feb 1921 1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in New York NY from San Francisco CA
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23 Feb 1923 German Republic day with laws against worker
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23 Feb 1923 Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5%
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23 Feb 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.
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23 Feb 1927 U.S. 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.
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23 Feb 1927 President Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FCC predecessor)
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23 Feb 1934 Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
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23 Feb 1934 Casey Stengel becomes manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers
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23 Feb 1934 Coronation of King Leopold III of Belgium
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23 Feb 1936 1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake, New York
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23 Feb 1938 Joe Louis KOs Nathan Mann in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
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23 Feb 1939 Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St Louis, to become wrestling champion
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23 Feb 1940 Russian troops conquer Lasi Island
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23 Feb 1940 Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio", released
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23 Feb 1941 Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
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23 Feb 1942 Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, California
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23 Feb 1942 World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the California coastline near Santa Barbara.
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23 Feb 1943 Greek Resistance: The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth is founded is Greece.
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23 Feb 1943 A fire breaks out at St. Joseph's Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 36 people (35 of whom are children).
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23 Feb 1943 General-Major Bradley arrives in Dakar & Marrakesh
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23 Feb 1943 German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia
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23 Feb 1944 The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia.
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23 Feb 1945 World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers.
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23 Feb 1945 World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
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23 Feb 1945 World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.
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23 Feb 1945 World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Baños internment camp.
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23 Feb 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.
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23 Feb 1945 US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo & statue
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23 Feb 1945 2nd Dutch government of Gerbrandy forms in London
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23 Feb 1945 Canadian troops occupy Kalkar
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23 Feb 1945 Operation Grenade General Simpson's 9th Army crosses Ruhr
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23 Feb 1947 The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.
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23 Feb 1947 General Eisenhower opens drive to raise $170 million in aid for European Jews
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23 Feb 1954 The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
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23 Feb 1954 1st mass inoculation with Salk vaccine (Pittsburgh)
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23 Feb 1954 Syrian army drives out President Adib el-Shishakli
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23 Feb 1955 First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
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23 Feb 1955 Edgar Faure forms French government
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23 Feb 1956 20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow
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23 Feb 1956 Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin
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23 Feb 1957 "Mr Wonderful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 383 performances
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23 Feb 1958 Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world F1 champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
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23 Feb 1958 5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels
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23 Feb 1958 Last Municipal arc light, Mission & 25th removed (installed in 1913)
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23 Feb 1958 Arturo Frondizi elected President of Argentina
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23 Feb 1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
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23 Feb 1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
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23 Feb 1959 KVIE TV channel 6 in Sacramento-Stockton CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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23 Feb 1960 Demolition begins on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field (opened in 1913)
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23 Feb 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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23 Feb 1964 Charlie Finley signs a 4 year lease to keep A's in Kansas City
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23 Feb 1965 Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president
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23 Feb 1966 In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist.
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23 Feb 1966 Aldo Moro forms Italian government
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23 Feb 1966 Military coup in Syria ends Bitar government
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23 Feb 1966 Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda
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23 Feb 1967 25th amendment (Presidential succession) declared ratified
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23 Feb 1967 John Herbert's "Fortune & Men's Eyes" premieres in New York NY
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23 Feb 1967 Ted Workman replaces Senator Keith Davey as CFL commissioner
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23 Feb 1967 US troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War
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23 Feb 1968 Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBAer to score 25,000 points
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23 Feb 1969 Nayif Hawatimah forms Democratic People's Front for Liberation of Palestine
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23 Feb 1969 WWVU (now WNPB) TV channel 24 in Morgantown WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
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23 Feb 1970 Guyana becomes a republic (National Day)
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23 Feb 1970 Holy Eucharist given by women for 1st time in Roman Catholic service
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23 Feb 1971 George Harrison is fined and his driving license is suspended for 1 year
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23 Feb 1971 George Harrison is fined & his driving license is suspended for 1 year as a result of several speeding tickets and a dispute with the police
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23 Feb 1971 Lieutenant Calley confesses & implicates Captain Medina
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23 Feb 1971 Boston Bruins begin 13 NHL game win streak
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23 Feb 1973 Gold goes up $10 overnight to record $95 an ounce in London
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23 Feb 1974 Patty Hearst, Daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, kidnapped by SLA
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23 Feb 1974 Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Confessions of an Orth"
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23 Feb 1974 The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
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23 Feb 1975 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
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23 Feb 1976 Owners announce spring training won't open without a labor contract
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23 Feb 1978 20th Grammy Awards Hotel California, Fleetwood Mac, Debbie Boone win
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23 Feb 1979 "Sarava" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 140 performances
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23 Feb 1979 George Harrison releases "George Harrison" album
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23 Feb 1979 Frank Peterson Jr named 1st black general in Marine Corps
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23 Feb 1980 13th Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, New York
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23 Feb 1980 Iran hostage crisis: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
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23 Feb 1980 Eric Heiden wins all 5 speed skating golds at Lake Placid Olympics
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23 Feb 1980 Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37-million-gallon spill
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23 Feb 1980 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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23 Feb 1981 In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
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23 Feb 1981 People magazine features drug ordeal of Mackenzie & Papa John Phillips
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23 Feb 1981 Spanish coup under Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina fails
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23 Feb 1982 Michael Frayn's "Noises Off" premieres in London
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23 Feb 1983 The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
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23 Feb 1983 USFL New Jersey Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years-$5 million)
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23 Feb 1983 25th Grammy Awards Rosanna, Toto IV, Men at Work win
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23 Feb 1985 Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight throws a chair during a game
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23 Feb 1985 US Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as Attorney General
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23 Feb 1986 Despite losing, Red Sox Wade Boggs gets largest arbitration ($1.35M)
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23 Feb 1986 Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA Standard Register/Samaritan Golf Classic
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23 Feb 1986 Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 60 meter indoor (7.00 seconds)
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23 Feb 1987 Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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23 Feb 1987 Supernova 1987A in LMC 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604
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23 Feb 1987 Dick Howser retires from managing Kansas City Royals, due to brain tumor
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23 Feb 1987 Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member
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23 Feb 1988 15th Winter Olympics games opens in Calgary, Alberta
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23 Feb 1988 Chicago gives Cubs right to install lights & play up to 18 night games
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23 Feb 1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates female record 3k (4:11.94)
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23 Feb 1990 Ian Smith 173 New Zealand vs India, 136 balls, world record for no 9 bat
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23 Feb 1991 Greg Haugen scores a split decision over Hector "Macho" Camacho
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23 Feb 1991 In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
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23 Feb 1991 Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.
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23 Feb 1991 US insists Iraq publicly announce it is leaving Kuwait by 12 PM EST
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23 Feb 1991 Military coup in Thailand, Premier Choonhaven arrested
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23 Feb 1991 North Carolina is 1st NCAA basketball team to win 1,500 games
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23 Feb 1991 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
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23 Feb 1992 World Cup scoreline Zimbabwe 4-312, Sri Lanka 7-313
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23 Feb 1992 16th Winter Olympics games close in Albertville, France
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23 Feb 1992 Andy Flower scores 115 on ODI debut, Zimbabwe vs Sri Lanka
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23 Feb 1993 Gary Coleman wins $1,280,000 lawsuit against parents for high fees
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23 Feb 1993 India complete a 3-0 series drubbing of England
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23 Feb 1993 Sacramento Gold Miners admitted as CFL's 9th franchise (1st US team)
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23 Feb 1994 Indians owner Richard Jacobs announces he will pay $10 million to name baseball field (Jacobs Field) at Gateway (becomes official 3/23)
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23 Feb 1995 "Uncle Vanya" opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 29 performances
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23 Feb 1995 Antoine Nduwayo appointed Premier of Burundi
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23 Feb 1995 Dow Jones closes above 4,000 for 1st time (4,003.33)
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23 Feb 1996 Mark Waugh scores 130 in World Cup vs. Kenya, 207 w / brother Steve
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23 Feb 1996 Rajindra Dhanraj takes 9-97 for Trinidad against Leeward Islands
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23 Feb 1997 Scientists in Scotland announced they succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named "Dolly"
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23 Feb 1997 Ali Abu Kamal opens fire in Empire State Building & kills 1
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23 Feb 1997 American Express Senior Golf Invitational
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23 Feb 1997 Jeff Sluman wins Tucson Golf Classic
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23 Feb 1997 NBC TV shows "Schindler's List", completely uncensored, 65 million watch
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23 Feb 1997 Tucson Chrysler Golf Classic
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23 Feb 1998 In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42.
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23 Feb 1998 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charleston SC on WAVF 96.1 FM
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23 Feb 1998 Supreme Court lets Megan's Law stand
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23 Feb 1998 Tornadoes in Florida kills at least 31
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23 Feb 1999 An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
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23 Feb 1999 Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
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23 Feb 2005 The controversial French law on colonialism is passed, requiring teachers to teach the "positive values of colonialism". After public outcry, it is repealed at the beginning of 2006.
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23 Feb 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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23 Feb 2008 A U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber crashes on Guam. It is the first operational loss of a B-2.
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23 Feb 2010 Unknown criminals pour more than 2.5 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in northern Italy, sparking an environmental disaster.
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23 Feb 2012 A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured.
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23 Feb 2014 The closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics takes place in Sochi, Russia.
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