2025年2月23日 · Historical events for the 23rd of February. See what famous, interesting and notable events happened throughout history on February 23.

February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 311 days remain until the end of the year (312 in leap years). 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution. [1]

2025年2月23日 · 1945 US Marines raise the flag of the United States on top of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by Joe Rosenthal later becomes iconic, inspiring the Marine Corps War Memorial sculpture. Did You Know? A siege by Mexican forces of the Alamo mission compound in Texas began on this day.

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February 23rd is the fifty-fourth day in the Gregorian calendar; it marks the start of the Siege of the Alamo of the Texas Revolution (the igniter of the Battle of the Alamo) and the Supernova 1987A—a peculiar type II supernova—seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud (a dwarf galaxy satellite of the Milky Way).

Did you know that February 23 is known as Banana Bread Day? Here you'll learn facts about Feb 23, including historical events that happened on this day.

This day in 1836, during the Texas war for independence, Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna began a siege of the Alamo, which was captured after 13 days and which became for Texans a symbol of heroic resistance. Mexican-born American musician Carlos Santana won eight Grammy Awards for Supernatural, tying the record set by Michael Jackson.

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On February 23, 1980, speed skater Eric Heiden wins the 10,000-meter race at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, setting a world record with his time and winning an unprecedented fifth ...