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{{Portal:United States/On this day/Layout
|month=February
|day=23
|events=
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1778 -
American Revolution:
Baron von Steuben arrives at
Valley Forge,
Pennsylvania to help to train the
Continental Army.
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1836 - The
Siege of the Alamo begins in
San Antonio, Texas.
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1847 -
Mexican–American War:
Battle of Buena Vista - In Mexico, American troops under
General
Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican
General
Antonio López de Santa Anna.
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1861 - President-elect
Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after an assassination attempt in
Baltimore.
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1870 - Military control of
Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the
Union.
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1883 -
Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an
antitrust law.
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1904 - For $10 million the United States gains control of the
Panama Canal Zone.
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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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1945 - World War II: During the
Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of
United States Marines and a commonly forgotten US Navy Corpsman, reach the top of
Mount Suribachi on the island and are
photographed raising the American flag. The photo would later win a
Pulitzer Prize.
- 1945 - World War II: The capital of the
Philippines,
Manila, is liberated by American forces.
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1975 - In response to the
energy crisis,
daylight saving time commences nearly two months early in the United States.
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1980 -
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini states that
Iran's
parliament would decide the fate of the
American embassy hostages.
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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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1991 -
Gulf War: Ground troops cross the
Saudi Arabia border and enter
Iraq, thus starting the ground-phase of the war.
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1995 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 30.28 to close at 4,003.33, closing above 4,000 for the
first time.
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2005 -
Slovakia Summit 2005 begins, marking the first occasion when a sitting
American President visits
Slovakia;
Bush and
Putin are in attendance.
|births=
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1729 -
Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (d.
1809)
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1809 -
William Sprague, American minister and politician from Michigan (d.
1868)
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1868 -
W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights leader (d.
1963)
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1889 -
Victor Fleming, American director (d.
1949)
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1899 -
Norman Taurog, American film director (d.
1981)
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1904 -
William L. Shirer, American historian (d.
1993)
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1915 -
Jon Hall, American actor (d.
1979)
- 1915 -
Paul Tibbets,
US Air Force retired
Brigadier General and Pilot of
B-29 "
Enola Gay" over
Hiroshima (d.
2007)
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1918 -
Richard G. Butler, American fascist (d.
2004)
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1931 -
Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist (d.
2004)
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1932 -
Majel Barrett, American actress
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1937 -
Tom Osborne, American football coach and politician
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1938 -
Diane Varsi, American actress (d.
1992)
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1940 -
Peter Fonda, American actor
-
1941 -
Ron Hunt, baseball player
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1943 -
Fred Biletnikoff, American football player and coach
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1944 -
John Sandford, American novelist
- 1944 -
Johnny Winter, American musician
-
1946 -
Rusty Young, American country-rock guitarist (
Poco)
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1947 -
John McWethy, American journalist (d.
2008)
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1948 -
Doug Moench, American comic book writer
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1951 -
Ed Jones, American football player
- 1951 -
Patricia Richardson, American actress
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1952 -
Brad Whitford, American musician (
Aerosmith)
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1955 -
Tom Bodett, American voice actor, radio personality, and writer
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1961 -
Kelly Hansen, American drummer (Summer Lights)
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1962 -
Michael Wilton, American musician (
Queensrÿche)
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1963 -
Bobby Bonilla, former baseball player
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1965 -
Kristin Davis, American actress
- 1965 -
Michael Dell, American computer manufacturer
- 1965 -
Veronica Webb, American supermodel and actress
-
1970 -
Niecy Nash, American actress
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1972 -
Steve Holy, American country singer
- 1972 -
Rondell White, American baseball player
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1973 -
Jack Case, American artist
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1974 -
Leko, American DJ
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1975 -
Michael Cornacchia, American actor
- 1975 -
Robert Lopez, American composer
-
1979 -
D-Roc, American rapper (
Ying Yang Twins)
-
1981 -
Charles Tillman, American football player
-
1986 -
Holly Brook, American musician
-
1989 -
Evan Bates, American ice dancer
-
1994 -
Dakota Fanning, American actress
|deaths=
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1781 -
George Taylor, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (bc.
1716)
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1848 -
John Quincy Adams, 6th
President of the United States (b.
1767)
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1944 -
Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Flemish-American chemist and inventor of the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite (b.
1863)
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1973 -
Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1895)
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1974 -
Harry Ruby, American composer and writer (b.
1895)
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1990 -
Laura Palmer, Prom queen in home town of Twin Peaks (b.
1990)
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1995 -
Melvin Franklin, American singer (
The Temptations) (b.
1942)
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1997 -
Tony Williams, American jazz drummer (b.
1945)
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1999 -
Carlos Hathcock, USMC Sniper, 93 Confirmed Kills (b.
1942)
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2003 -
Robert K. Merton, American sociologist (b.
1910)
- 2003 -
Howie Epstein, American bass guitarist (
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) (b.
1955)
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2004 -
Carl Anderson, American singer (b.
1945)
- 2004 -
Don Cornell, American singer (b.
1919)
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2007 -
Donnie Brooks, American singer (b.
1936)
|holidays=
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