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23 Feb 1574
France begins 5th holy war against Huguenots
23 Feb 1668
Fire in the Hofburg in Vienna Emperor Leopold I rescued
23 Feb 1672
Joan Blaeus publishers destroyed by fire in Amsterdam
23 Feb 1689
Dutch prince William III proclaimed King of England
23 Feb 1778
Baron von Steuben joins Continental Army at Valley Forge
23 Feb 1792
Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated (erected life-saving stations for distressed mariners)
23 Feb 1813
1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham Massachusetts
23 Feb 1820
Cato Street conspiracy uncovered attempt to murder British Prime Minister Earl of Liverpool and Government Ministers
23 Feb 1821
College of Apothecaries organized in Philadephia 1st US pharmacy college
23 Feb 1822
Boston Massachusetts is incorporated as a city
23 Feb 1846
Polish revolutionaries march on Krakw but are defeated
23 Feb 1854
Great Britain & Orange Free state sign Convention of Bloemfontein
23 Feb 1869
Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law
23 Feb 1870
Mississippi is readmitted to US after the Civil War
23 Feb 1874
Major Walter Clopton Winfield patents a game called sphairistike (lawn tennis)
23 Feb 1883
Alabama becomes 1st US state to enact an antitrust law
23 Feb 1883
American Anti-Vivisection Society organized (Philadelphia)
23 Feb 1886
The Times of London publishes worlds 1st classified ad
23 Feb 1887
US Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco
23 Feb 1887
FrenchItalian Riviera struck by Earthquake 2000 die
23 Feb 1892
1st college student government forms at Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania
23 Feb 1895
William Heard AME minister & educator named American minister to Liberia
23 Feb 1898
In France Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his Jaccuse letter accusing government of anti-Semitism & wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus
23 Feb 1900
Battle at Harts Hill South Africa (Boers vs British army)
23 Feb 1900
Steamer Rio de Janeiro sinks in San Francisco Bay
23 Feb 1903
The US and Cuba sign an agreement by which Cuba releases Guantanamo and Bahia Hondo to the US for naval stations
23 Feb 1903
The Sultan agrees to an Austro-Russian plan to reform the government of Macedonia in yet another effort to stifle the rising disorder among the rival Bulgarian
23 Feb 1904
United States acquires control of the Panama Canal Zone for 10 million
23 Feb 1904
Having occupied Korea Japan signs a treaty with Korea under which it becomes a Japanese protectorate in return for Japanese protection from other powers
23 Feb 1905
First Rotary Club formed by 4 men in the Unity Building Chicago
23 Feb 1915
Germany sinks US ships Carib & Evelyn & torpedoe Norwegian ship Regin
23 Feb 1916
US Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial 1 gold coin
23 Feb 1916
French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux (Battle of Verdun)
23 Feb 1918
First victory of Red Army over the Kaisers German troops near Narva and Pskov. Since 1923 this date become the Day of Red Army in honour of this victory.
23 Feb 1921
1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in NYC from San Francisco
23 Feb 1923
Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5%
23 Feb 1934
Casey Stengel becomes manager of Brooklyn Dodgers
23 Feb 1936
1st rocket air mail flight Greenwood Lake NY
23 Feb 1939
Lou Thesz beats Everett Marshall in St Louis to win National Boxing Association world heavyweight title for 2nd time
23 Feb 1940
Walt Disneys animated movie Pinocchio released
23 Feb 1941
Plutonium was first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg
23 Feb 1942
Japanese submarine fires on oil refinery in Ellwood California
23 Feb 1943
Major General Omar Bradley arrives in Dakar & Marrakesh
23 Feb 1943
German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia
23 Feb 1944
Forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people to Central Asia.
23 Feb 1945
2nd Dutch government of Gerbrandy forms in London
23 Feb 1945
Operation Grenade US Lieutenant General Simpsons 9th Army crosses Ruhr
23 Feb 1952
Following his Nordic combined gold medal in St. Moritz (1948) Heikki Hasu takes his 2nd Olympic gold as part of Finlands 4 x 10k cross country relay team at the Olso Winter Games
23 Feb 1952
Lydia Wideman of Finland becomes first female Olympic cross-country skiing champion wins inaugural 10k event in Olso Finnish medal sweep with minors to Mirja Hietamies and Siiri Rantanen
23 Feb 1954
Syrian army drives out president Adib el-Shishakli
23 Feb 1957
Mr Wonderful closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 383 performances
23 Feb 1957
The founding congress of the Senegalese Popular Bloc is opened in Dakar
23 Feb 1958
Arturo Frondizi elected President of Argentina
23 Feb 1958
Last Municipal arc light at Mission & 25th removed in San Francisco (installed 1913)
23 Feb 1959
KVIE TV channel 6 in Sacramento-Stockton CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
23 Feb 1960
Demolition begins on Brooklyns Ebbets Field (opened in 1913)
23 Feb 1960
Carol Heiss wins the womens figure skating gold medal at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics US takes the singles double after David Jenkins wins mens event
23 Feb 1964
Charlie Finley signs a 4 year lease to keep As in Kansas City
23 Feb 1964
6th Daytona 500 Race winner Richard Petty leads for record 184 of the 200 laps
23 Feb 1965
Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president
23 Feb 1967
25th amendment (US Presidential succession) adopted
23 Feb 1967
John Herberts Fortune & Mens Eyes premieres in NYC
23 Feb 1967
Ted Workman replaces Senator Keith Davey as CFL commissioner
23 Feb 1969
Nayif Hawatimah forms Dem Peoples Front for Liberation of Palestine
23 Feb 1969
WWVU (now WNPB) TV channel 24 in Morgantown WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
23 Feb 1969
11th Daytona 500 LeeRoy Yarbrough driving for Junior Johnson catches Charlie Glotzbach on final lap to win first Daytona 500 won on a last lap pass
23 Feb 1969
Groundbreaking TV documentary series Civilisation presented by art historian Kenneth Clark premieres on BBC2 in the UK
23 Feb 1970
Holy Eucharist given by women for 1st time in Roman Catholic service
23 Feb 1971
US army officer William Calley confesses & implicates Captain Medina during his trial for the My Lai Massacre
23 Feb 1973
Gold goes up 10 overnight to record 95 an ounce in London
23 Feb 1975
In response to the energy crisis daylight saving time commences nearly two months early in the United States.
23 Feb 1976
Owners announce spring training wont open without a labor contract
23 Feb 1978
20th Grammy Awards Hotel California Fleetwood Mac Debbie Boone wins
23 Feb 1979
Sarava opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 140 performances
23 Feb 1979
Frank Peterson Jr named 1st black general in Marine Corps
23 Feb 1979
George Harrison releases George Harrison album
23 Feb 1980
American speed skater Eric Heiden wins Olympic 10000m in world record 1428.13 sweeps all 5 speed skating events at Lake Placid only athlete to win 5 gold medals at one Winter Games
23 Feb 1980
Oil tanker explosion off Pilos Greece causes 37-mil-gallon spillage
23 Feb 1980
Olympic giant slalom champion Hanni Wenzel of Liechtenstein winsthe womens slalom her second gold medal of the Lake Placid Winter Games
23 Feb 1980
Soviet cross-country skier Nikolay Zimyatov wins his 3rd gold medal of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics when he takes out the 50k event also wins 30k and relay gold
23 Feb 1981
People magazine features drug ordeal of Mackenzie & Papa John Phillips
23 Feb 1982
Michael Frayns Noises Off premieres in London
23 Feb 1983
25th Grammy Awards Roxanna Toto IV Men at Work wins
23 Feb 1983
USFL NJ Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years-5 mil)
23 Feb 1983
The Spanish Socialist government of Felipe Gonzlez and Miguel Boyer nationalizes Rumasa a holding of Jos Mara Ruiz Mateos
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
23 Feb 1985
Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight throws a chair during a game
23 Feb 1985
US Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as Attorney General
23 Feb 1986
Despite losing Red Sox Wade Boggs gets largest arbitration (1.35M)
23 Feb 1986
Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 60 m indoor (7.00 sec)
23 Feb 1987
Dick Howser retires from managing KC Royals due to brain tumor
23 Feb 1987
Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member
23 Feb 1987
Supernova A in LMC 1st seen 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604
23 Feb 1988
Chicago gives Cubs right to install lights & play up to 18 night games
23 Feb 1988
Yvonne van Gennip skates female record 3k (411.94)
23 Feb 1990
Ian Smith 173 NZ v India 136 balls world record for no 9 bat
23 Feb 1990
Hold On single released by En Vogue (Billboard Song of the Year )
23 Feb 1991
Greg Haugen scores a split decision over Hector Macho Camacho
23 Feb 1991
Military coup in Thailand Premier Choonhaven arrested
23 Feb 1991
NC is 1st NCAA basketball team to win 1500 games
23 Feb 1992
XVI Winter Olympic Games close in Albertville France
23 Feb 1992
Andy Flower scores 115 on ODI debut Zimbabwe v Sri Lanka
23 Feb 1992
World Cup scoreline Zimbabwe 4-312 Sri Lanka 7-313
23 Feb 1992
The Socialist Labour Party is founded in Georgia
23 Feb 1993
Gary Coleman wins 1280000 lawsuit against parents for high fees
23 Feb 1993
India complete a 3-0 series drubbing of England
23 Feb 1993
Sacramento Gold Miners admitted as CFLs 9th franchise (1st US team)
23 Feb 1994
Indians owner Richard Jacobs announces he will pay 10 million to name baseball field (Jacobs Field) at Gateway (becomes official 323)
23 Feb 1995
Uncle Vanya opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 29 performances
23 Feb 1995
Dow Jones closes above 4000 for 1st time (4003.33)
23 Feb 1996
Mark Waugh scores 130 in World Cup vs Kenya 207 wbrother Steve
23 Feb 1996
Rajindra Dhanraj takes 9-97 for Trinidad against Leeward Islands
23 Feb 1997
Ali Abu Kamal opens fire in Empire State Building & kills 1
23 Feb 1997
Scientists in Scotland announce they have cloned an adult mammal producing a lamb named Dolly
23 Feb 1998
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charleston South Carolina on WAVF 96.1 FM
23 Feb 1998
US Supreme Court lets Megans Law (sex offenders information) stand
23 Feb 1999
Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah calan is charged with treason in Ankara Turkey
23 Feb 1999
An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtr killing 31
23 Feb 1999
British TV drama Queer as Folk written by Russell T. Davies starring Aidan Gillen Craig Kelly and Charlie Hunnam premieres on Channel 4
23 Feb 2001
32nd NAACP Image Awards Remember the Titans wins Outstanding Motion Picture
23 Feb 2003
49th National Film Awards (India) Dweepa wins the Golden Lotus
23 Feb 2003
56th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS) The Pianist Best Film Roman Polanski Best Director
23 Feb 2005
Vote of the controversial French law on colonialism repealed start of 2006
23 Feb 2006
Dubai Ports World agrees to postpone its plans to take over management of six U.S. ports after the proposal ignited harsh bipartisan criticism on Capitol Hill.
23 Feb 2007
Japan launches its fourth spy satellite stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.
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.
23 Feb 2008
B-2 Spirit of the USAF crashes at Guam. Crew survives but aircraft written off the most expensive air crash in human history (aircraft alone cost 1.2Bn). B-2 had a perfect safety record before the crash not one B-2 ever crashed.
23 Feb 2008
28th Golden Raspberry Awards I Know Who Killed Me wins
23 Feb 2010
Unknown criminals pour more than 2.5 million litres of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro in Northern Italy causing an environmental disaster.
23 Feb 2011
Venezuelas economy grew 0.6% in the last quarter of 2010 technically leaving the recession after six quarters it is reported today
23 Feb 2012
A series of bomb attacks across 12 Iraqi cities kills 60 and injures 200
23 Feb 2013
51 people are killed and 62 are injured in conflict between rival tribes in Darfur Sudan
23 Feb 2013
33rd Golden Raspberry Awards The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn - Part 2 wins
23 Feb 2014
A pro-Euromaidan rally is held in Simferopol Ukraine while in Kerch protesters attempt to replace the Ukrainian flag from city hall with a Russian flag
23 Feb 2014
56th Daytona 500 Dale Earnhardt Jr. breaks a 55-race winless streak to win his 2nd Great American Race
23 Feb 2014
XXII Winter Olympic Games close in Sochi Russia
23 Feb 2014
Russia sweeps the medals in the mens 50k cross country skiing at the Sochi Winter Olympics Alexander Legkov wins gold ahead of team mates Maxim Vylegzhanin and Ilia Chernousov
23 Feb 2014
Canada wins the Olympic ice hockey double with a 3-0 victory over Sweden in the mens gold medal game in Sochi first team to finish the tournament undefeated since 1984
23 Feb 2018
Russian figure skater Alina Zagitova wins the womens singles gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics earlier sets a new ISU best short program score of 82.92
23 Feb 2018
Study suggests earliest European Palaeolithic artwork in Spain made by Neanderthals not humans in Science Journal
23 Feb 1971
Boston Bruins begin 13 NHL game winning streak
23 Feb 1983
USFL New Jersey Generals sign Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker to a then massive 3 year 5 million deal
23 Feb 1964
Charlie Finley signs a 4 year lease to keep MLB As in Kansas City
23 Feb 1979
George Harrison releases George Harrison album featuring the single Blow Away
23 Feb 2014
Russia sweeps the medals in the mens 50k cross country skiing at the Sochi Winter Olympics Alexander Legkov wins gold ahead of teammates Maxim Vylegzhanin and Ilia Chernousov
23 Feb 1941
Plutonium first produced and isolated by American chemist Glenn T. Seaborg at Berkeley
23 Feb 1987
Baseball World Series winning manager (1985) Dick Howser retires from Kansas City Royals role due to brain tumor
23 Feb 2002
Sky Disc of Nebra worlds oldest map of the stars at 3600 years old recovered in police sting operation in Basal Switzerland after being illegally excavated in Germany [1]
23 Feb 1886
The Times of London newspaper publishes worlds 1st classified ad
23 Feb 1978
20th Grammy Awards Hotel California Fleetwood Mac Debbie Boone win
23 Feb 1983
25th Grammy Awards Roxannaand Toto IV Men at Work win
23 Feb 1992
Cricketer Andy Flower scores 115 on ODI debut as Zimbabwe lose to Sri Lanka
23 Feb 2018
Dutch speed skater Kjeld Nuis wins his second gold medal of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the 1000m also 1500m champion
23 Feb 1895
William Heard AME minister and educator named American minister to Liberia
23 Feb 1980
Olympic giant slalom champion Hanni Wenzel of Liechtenstein wins the womens slalom her second gold medal of the Lake Placid Winter Games
23 Feb 1985
Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight throws a chair onto the court during a game
23 Feb 1349
Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland on suspicion of poisoning wells
23 Feb 1672
Joan Blaeus publishing house is destroyed by fire in Amsterdam
23 Feb 1763
First major slave rebellion in South America begins the Berbice uprising in Dutch colony of Bernice (modern Guyana) by slaves protesting conditions
23 Feb 1792
Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporates to establish life-saving stations for distressed mariners
23 Feb 1813
First US raw cotton-to-cloth mill is founded in Waltham Massachusetts
23 Feb 1822
Boston is incorporated as a city receiving the first city charter in Massachusetts [1]
23 Feb 1874
Major Walter Clopton Wingfield patents a game he calls sphairistike now known as lawn tennis
23 Feb 1886
The Times of London newspaper publishes the worlds first classified ad
23 Feb 1904
Fiordland National Park in New Zealand created home to the Milford Track and at 4600 square miles (12000 square km) one of the worlds largest
23 Feb 1915
Nevada reduces residency requirement for divorces from 1 year to 6 months
23 Feb 1945
2nd Dutch government in exile of Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy forms in London London
23 Feb 1956
20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) closes in Moscow Russia USSR
23 Feb 1992
The Socialist Labour Party is founded in the eastern European country of Georgia
23 Feb 1995
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 4000 for 1st time (4003.33)
23 Feb 2019
Clashes on Venezuelan border kills two as its countrys officials try to stop aid getting in
23 Feb 2019
Roy Hodgson overtakes Sir Bobby Robson as the oldest man to manage a Premier League football club when at 71 years 198 days his Crystal Palace beats Leicester City 4-1
23 Feb 2019
Sri Lanka becomes first Asian cricket team to clinch a Test series in South Africa chasing down 197 in the 2nd Test in Port Elizabeth Kusal Mendis 84no Oshada Fernando 75no
23 Feb 2020
African American Ahmaud Arbery shot to death after being chased down by two white men in Brunswick Georgia. Video of the killing emerges in May prompting arrests.
23 Feb 2020
Fashion designer heavyweights Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons announce they will work alongside each other at Prada
23 Feb 2020
First major COVID-19 outbreak in Europe in Italy with 152 cases and three deaths prompting emergency measures locking down 10 towns in Lombardy
23 Feb 2020
Violent protests against new citizenship laws in Delhi India erupt leaving at least 38 people dead over the next few days
23 Feb 1904
Fiordland National Park in New Zealand is created home to the Milford Track and at 4600 square miles (12000 square km) one of the worlds largest
23 Feb 1904
US acquires control of the Panama Canal Zone for 10 million
23 Feb 1918
First victory of the Red Army over the Kaisers German troops near Narva and Pskov since 1923 this date becomes the Day of the Red Army in honor of this victory
23 Feb 1921
First US transcontinental airmail flight arrives in NYC from San Francisco
23 Feb 1941
Plutonium is first produced and isolated by American chemist Glenn T. Seaborg at Berkeley
23 Feb 1973
Price of gold goes up 10 overnight to record 95 an ounce in London
23 Feb 1986
Nelli Cooman sets world record for 60m indoor (7.00 sec) at European Indoor Championships in Madrid Spain
23 Feb 1991
Greg Haugen wins WBO light-welterweight title in a split decision over Hector Macho Camacho at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas
23 Feb 2021
COVID-19 antibodies survey in Nigeria suggests 4 million people have had the virus in Lagos state alone more than officially recorded for whole of Africa [1]
23 Feb 2021
Discovery of oldest Australian rock art a 17300-year-old painting of a kangaroo in Kimberley region Western Australia published in Nature Human Behaviour [1]
23 Feb 2024
German parliament votes to legalize cannabis 407 votes to 226 with restrictions [1]