The February 23rd is the 54e Jour of the Année of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 311 days before the end of the year (312 so bissextile).

Events

12th century

  • 1130 : Dedication of the Innocent pope II.

15th century

  • 1455 : Allowed date of publication of the Bible of Gutenberg, the first Western book printed with mobile characters.

16th century

  • 1573 :

    • the pacification of Perth puts an end to the engagements in Scotland between the Regent and the partisans of Marie Stuart.
    • an Irish rebellion is crushed with the rendering of James Fitzgerald.
  • 1574 : Beginning of the fifth war of religion in France.

17th century

18th century

  • 1745 : Marriage of the dolphin Louis de France with Marie-Therese infante of Spain.

  • 1766 : The Duché of Lorraine is attached to the France.

19th century

20th century

  • 1901 : The team of Football of Scotland crushes the Northern Ireland 11-0.

  • 1903 : Cuba rents bay of Guantánamo to the the United States “with perpetuity”.
  • 1904 : For 10 million dollars, the the United States take the control of the zone of the Panama Canal.
  • 1905 :
  • 1909 : Controlling its Silver Dart, with Badeck in Nova Scotia, John Alexander McCurdy makes a success of the first flight motorized in British ground.
  • 1919 : Benito Mussolini form the Left national fascist ( Fasci di combattimento ) in Italy.
  • 1921 : Arrival with New York of the first Transcontinental flight since San Francisco in 33 hours and 20 minutes.
  • 1933 : The Japan undertakes the occupation of the China, in the north of the Great wall.
  • 1934 : Léopold III becomes king of the Belgians.
  • 1937 : Nankin: End of the congress of Kuo-mintang, which refuses the possibility of an united action with Mao against the Japan board.
  • 1942 : A Japanese submarine bombards an oil refinery close to Santa Barbara, in California.
  • 1943 : Eruption-birth of the volcano Paricutín with the Mexico.
  • 1944 : The dictator Stalin abolishes the autonomous Republic of Chetchnia; a million inhabitants are exiled.
  • 1945 :
    • Release of Manila (Filipino) by the American troops.
    • Capitulation of the German forces with Poznań (Poland) vis-a-vis the troops soviéto - Polish.
    • the German city of Pforzheim is completely destroyed by a raid of 379 British bombers .
    • France: Arrival of American food aid to the European civilians thanks to the Liberty ship .
  • 1946 : with Manila, the Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita, who had taken Singapore, is hung for war crimes.
  • 1947 : Foundation of the International organization of standardization (ISO).
  • 1954 : The first vaccination of mass of children against the Polio with Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, the USA)
  • 1955: Edgar Faure becomes Prime Minister in France
  • 1956: Nikita Khrouchtchev denounces the worship of the personality of Joseph Stalin.
  • 1958 :
    • the Cuban Cifuendes , pilot of Formula 1, at the time of the Grand Prix of Havana, loses the control of its car and leaves in crowd: 6 dead.
    • Manual Juan Fangio, world champion of the drivers of Formula 1 in title, is removed before the Grand Prix of Havana by opponents castrist. He will be released 28 H later.
  • 1959 : The European Cour of the human rights holds its first meeting with Strasbourg.
  • 1965 : Stanley Matthews is the first British footballer anobli by the queen.
  • 1966 : Military coup d'etat in Syria which reverses the government.
  • 1968 : France: The right of access mixed is granted in the university residences.
  • 1970 : The Guyana (ex- British Guyana) puts an end to its association with the Great Britain, but remains within the the Commonwealth.
  • 1973 : The engagements continue with the Laos, in spite of the agreement concluded between the Laotian government and the Pathet Lao.
  • 1974 : A conference of the Islamic countries, joined together with Lahore (Pakistan), denounces the American support for Israel and claims the evacuation of all the occupied territories.
  • 1980 : Oil catastrophe: the tanker Irenes Serenade (Greece) lets escape 102  000 tons of crude in bay of Navarin (Greece).
  • 1981 : Fallen through attempt at military Coup d'etat in Spain, by the colonel Tejero and his accomplices.
  • 1982 :
    • Spain: Nationalization of Rumasa, a holding of Jose María Ruiz Mateos by the government directed by Felipe González.
    • For the first time for 72 years the France has beaten the Italy with the Football.
  • 1984 : New confrontations are announced to Kabul, where new the Afghan president claims the endoctrination of the young people and the reinforcement of the army.
  • 1985 :
    • Addis-Abeba shows the Israéliens to have removed thousands of Ethiopian Jews, evacuated by plane of their country, touched by the Famine.
    • Bomb attack with the Parisian store Marks & Spencer: a death and 14 wounded.
  • 1986 : Hundreds of Spanish thousands of express against NATO.
  • 1987 : Observation of a Supernova (Supernova 1987a) in the Clouds of Magellan.
  • 1988 : Quebec: The preserving deputy André Bissonnette is discharged with his lawsuit for fraud and breach of trust, concerning the sale of grounds to the company Oerlikon; but the organizer Normand Ouellette is found guilty of fraud.
  • 1990 : The Rocket ARIANE, with two Japanese satellites on board, explodes two minutes after its takeoff of the base of Kourou.
  • 1991 :
    • : The general Sunthorn Kongsompong carries out a coup d'etat strapping and deposits the Prime Minister Chatichai Junhavan.
    • the prohibition of pirate radio station causes confrontations (10 dead) and acts of plundering with Saint-Denis of the Meeting.
    • Eight hours after the official expiry of the American Ultimatum to the Iraq, the president George Bush announces the final stage of the release of the Kuwait. A few minutes later, the secretary with Defense confirms that a “terrestrial operation with large scales” is in hand to release the country.
  • 1992 :
    • Fence of the XVIe Winter Olympics to Albertville.
    • the French lieutenant Giot carries out the rise and the redescente of the Aconcagua (more high summit of South America) in 5:57 mn and 59 S.
  • 1993:
    • Philip Artingstall lance same a Crepe 307 times and sign new world records. To be approved, the pancake must be made of 170 G paste (flour, eggs, milk), the frying pan must weigh at least 340 G and to have a base of at least 21,5 cm.
    • the series TV Berverly Hills unloads in France.
  • 1994 :
  • 1997 :
    • a fire declares in the Russian space station Mir, due to a malfunction of one of the oxygen cartridges.
    • Of the British researchers announces the birth, seven months ago, of the ewe Dolly, first adult clone of mammal.
    • a fire with Baripada, India, in a place of worship, keep silent 164 people.
  • 1998 :
    • the general secretary of UNO Kofi Annan and the Iraqi authorities manage an agreement on the access to the presidential sites of the inspectors of UNO in charge of disarmament.
    • Partial privatization of Air France whose capital will be, to a total value of 20% maximum, put on the market.
    • a Tornade in Florida makes 42 dead.
    • Usama Bin Laden publishes a Fatwa declaring the Jihad against all the Juif S and the cross .
    • in Algeria, the attack of a train by a commando Islamiste makes eighteen dead.
    • Netscape announces the creation of Mozilla.org, to coordinate the development of the navigator Open source Mozilla Firefox.
  • 1999 :
    • a Avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür: 38 dead.
    • the Kurdish rebel Abdullah Öcalan is shown of treason with Ankara (Turkey).
    • the American authorities refuse to sell a communications satellite with the China.
    • a Tupolev You-154 of the company China Southwest Airlines is crushed in the south-east of the China: 61 died, no survivor.

21e century

  • 2000 :

    • NATO decides to face the renewal of tension with the Kosovo by redeploying some 2.000 men of six different countries, of which the France.
    • the Florida carries out for the first time one condemned to died by lethal injection. Terry Melvin Sims is the forty-fifth condemned to death carried out in this State since the re-establishment of the capital punishment in Florida in 1979.
    • a five year old child in anger leaves to seek the gun of his/her mother and turns over to the school to shoot at his/her comrades. Fortunately it wounds any no and the weapon falls to ground. That occurs to the the United States country from violent death by firearms in the schools.
  • 2001 :
    • the room of the instruction of the Court of Appeal of Paris validates the near total of the investigation on a possible traffic of weapons towards the Angola, in which Jean-Christophe Mitterrand is continued.
    • Of the interethnic confrontations in the indonésienne part of Borneo causes the escape of thousands of people.
    • a Séisme of magnitude 6.0 shakes the Chinese of the Sichuan and keep silent province 3 people.
  • 2002 :
    • Belgium: Beginning of the demonstrations of Bruges, European city of the culture.
    • the old sénatrice Ingrid Betancourt, candidate with the next presidential election in Colombia, and Clara Rojas, are removed by rebels of the Revolutionary armed forces of Colombia (FARC).
      • French
    • Doubled in the male slalom of the OJ of Salt Lake City: Jean-Pierre Vidal gold medal, Sebastien Amiez medal of money.
    • the France finishes with 11 medals the OJ of winter of Salt Lake City, marked by the scandal of the judges of the figure skating and several cases of doping.
    • While going to make their races, a couple of South-Africans finds a ingot of gold in the Parking of a Shopping mall of Sandton.
    • the Count Alvaro de Marichalar there Saenz de Tejada share of Rome, Italy, for Miami, the United States, in scootor of the seas for a ballade of 12.900 km. This site reports the crossing.
    • an American soldier of elite is killed and another casualty by a sheriff associated in North Carolina, the United States. These two soldiers make party of the special forces, trained with high expenses by the the United States to face all tests, to fulfill all missions (combat and information) but cannot keep themselves of a sheriff associated with the easy trigger in a hole of their own country.
    • Liu Haiyang, student Chinese decides to test the intelligence of the Ours zoo of Beijing in their launching sulphuric Acid and caustic Soda! It risks 10 years of Prison for this offense in China.
  • 2003 : Candidature of the Croatia for the European Union.
  • 2004 :
    • a Seism of magnitude 5,3 key Besancon: no victim.
    • the Iranian conservatives gain officially the absolute majority at the Parliament, according to the results of legislative denounced like a " fiasco historique" by the reformers.
  • 2005 :
    • the French Parliament vote a law, disputed: the school programs will have to explain “ the positive role of the French presence overseas and in particular in North Africa ”.
    • Marcelle Petitjean receives Automobile Club of the West, a “platinum wheel” after 67 years of driving license without responsible accident.
  • 2007 : France: Renaud Denoix of Saint-Marc, Guy Canivet and Jean-Louis Debré are named with the French Constitutional council. Jean-Louis Debré will be the president starting from the March 5th, until in 2016.

Births

Death

Celebrations

  • national Festival of Guyana.

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

Catholic saints of the day

Orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Polycarpe de Briansk (1449)

See too

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