23 Februar

The 23rd o Februar is the 54t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 311 days ti come (312 in lowp years).

 Events 
 1836 - The Siege o the Alamo begins in Texas.
 1883 - Rudolf Diesel receives a patent for the Diesel ingine.
 1941 - Plutonium is first produced an isolatit bi Glenn T. Seaborg.
 1945 - Warld War II: Unitit States marines raise the banner on Moont Suribachi efter the Battle o Iwo Jima.
 1945 - Warld War II: Manila is liberatit bi Filipino an American forces.
 1970 - Guyana is declarit a republic.
 1981 - Antonio Tejero stages an attemptit coup in Spain.
 1982 - Voters in Greenland choose tae leave the European Economic Community.
 1997 - A fire occurs on baird the Roushie Mir Space Station.
 1997 - A fire disaster in the state o Orissa, Indie, kills ower 100 fowk. 
 1999 - An avalanche kills 31 fowk in Galtür, Austrick.
 2014 - End o the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Sooth o Roushie.
 2018 - The Germany men's ice hockey team achieve a surprise win ower Canadae in the semi-feenals o the 2018 Olympic competeetion.

 Births 
 1417 - Pape Paul II (d. 1471)
 1443 - Matthias Corvinus, King o Hungary an Croatie (d. 1490)
 1633 - Samuel Pepys, Inglis diarist (d. 1703)
 1685 - George Frideric Handel, German componer (d. 1759)
 1800 - Sir William Jardine, 7t Baronet, Scots naituralist (d. 1874)
 1868 - W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian an activist (d. 1963)
 1878 - Kazimir Malevich, Pols-Roushie penter (d. 1935)
 1883 - Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist an philosopher (d. 1969)
 1889 - Victor Fleming, American film director, cinematographer an producer (d. 1949)
 1908 - William McMahon, 20t Prime Meenister o Australie (d. 1988)
 1927 - Willie Ormond, Scots fitbawer (d. 1984)
 1940 - Peter Fonda, American actor
 1954 - Viktor Yushchenko, umwhile Preses o Ukraine
 1960 - Croun Prince Naruhito o Japan
 1966 - Alexandre Borges, Brazilian actor
 1976 - Kelly Macdonald, Scots actress
 1983 - Emily Blunt, Inglis actress
 1992 - Casemiro, Brazilian fitbawer
 1994 - Dakota Fanning, American actress

 Daiths 
 1417 - Pape Eugene IV
 1792 - Joshua Reynolds, Inglis penter (b. 1723)
 1821 - John Keats, Inglis poet (b. 1795)
 1848 - John Quincy Adams, 6t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1767)
 1850 - William Allan, Scots penter (b. 1782)
 1855 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathemateecian (b. 1777)
 1856 - James Maitland Balfour, Scots laund-awner an businessman (b. 1820)
 1934 - Edward Elgar, Inglis componer (b. 1857)
 1936 - William Adamson, Scots tred unionist an politeecian (b. 1863)
 1965 - Stan Laurel, Inglis actor an comedian (b. 1890)
 1969 - Saud o Saudi Arabie (b. 1902)
 2000 - Stanley Matthews, Inglis fitbawer (b. 1915)
 2014 - Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech-born pianist an Holocaust survivor (b. 1903)

 Halidays 
 Defender o the Faitherland Day (Roushie)
 Republic Day (Guyana)
 Naitional Day (Brunei)

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