February 23

Facts & Historical Events On This Day

2022

In a televised statement, the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, announced that he would conduct a 'special military operation' against Ukraine.

2020

China announced that the Coronavirus had created the country's worst health emergency since 1949.

1999

Eminem's album The Slim Shady LP went on sale.

1999

Silent Hill, the first installment in the Silent Hill series, was released for the PlayStation.

1997

The full-length, uncensored version of Schindler's List aired on NBC, receiving 65 million viewers.

1996

The movie 'Trainspotting' arrived in UK cinemas.

1992

NASA successfully launched the third of its advanced series 2 GPS satellites into orbit.

1991

President H. W. Bush gave Iraq the ultimatum that they had 24 hours to get their forces out of Kuwait or face war.

1954

Polio vaccines were given to the first group of children in the US at Arsenal Elementary School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1947

US General Eisenhower bid to raise $170 million in aid to help European Jews.

1945

During WWII, the German town of Pforzheim was annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers.

1941

Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg discovered the chemical element Plutonium.

1903

The United States of America leased Guantanamo Bay from Cuba, with the lease lasting an indefinite period.

1886

The first-ever classified ad was published in The Times, London, UK.

1836

The Battle of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texas.