miércoles, 23 de febrero de 2011

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ON THIS DAY

February 23

On Feb. 23, 1954, the first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh.
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On Feb. 23, 1868, W.E.B. DuBois, the American sociologist who co-founded the N.A.A.C.P., was born. Following his death on Aug. 27, 1963, his obituary appeared in The Times.

On This Date

1685Composer George Frideric Handel was born in Germany.
1822Boston was granted a charter to incorporate as a city.
1836The siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texas.
1847U.S. troops under Gen. Zachary Taylor defeated Mexican general Santa Anna at the Battle of Buena Vista in Mexico.
1848John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, died at age 80 in Washington, D.C., two days after suffering a stroke on the floor of the House of Representatives.
1861President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington to take office after an assassination plot was foiled in Baltimore.
1870Mississippi was readmitted to the Union.
1954The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine began, in Pittsburgh.
1965Stan Laurel of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy died at age 74.
1991President George H.W. Bush announced that the allied ground offensive against Iraqi forces had begun.
1997Scientists in Scotland announced they had cloned an adult mammal, producing a lamb named Dolly.
1999A jury in Jasper, Texas, convicted white supremacist John William King of murder in the dragging death of an African-American man, James Byrd Jr.
2000Carlos Santana won eight Grammy Awards for his album "Supernatural," tying the record set by Michael Jackson in 1983 for "Thriller."
2003Norah Jones won five Grammy Awards for the album "Come Away With Me."

Current Birthdays

Emily Blunt, Actress
Actress Emily Blunt turns 28 years old today.
AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
Dakota Fanning, Actress
Actress Dakota Fanning turns 17 years old today.
AP Photo/Carlo Allegri
1940Peter Fonda, Actor, director, turns 71
1943Fred Biletnikoff, Football Hall of Famer, turns 68
1944Johnny Winter, Rock singer, turns 67
1945Allan Boesak, South African activist, turns 66
1951Patricia Richardson, Actress ("Home Improvement"), turns 60
1952Brad Whitford, Rock musician (Aerosmith), turns 59
1954Viktor Yushchenko, Former president of Ukraine, turns 57
1954Howard Jones, Rock singer, turns 57
1965Kristin Davis, Actress ("Sex and the City"), turns 46

Historic Birthdays

70Samuel Pepys 2/23/1633 - 5/26/1703
English diarist and naval administrator
74George Frideric Handel 2/23/1685 - 4/14/1759
German-bn. English composer
87George Frederick Watts 2/23/1817 - 7/1/1904
English painter and sculptor
68Cesar Ritz 2/23/1850 - 10/26/1918
French founder of the Ritz hotel in Paris
90Norman Lindsay 2/23/1879 - 11/29/1969
Australian artist and novelist
88Karl Jaspers 2/23/1881 - 2/26/1969
German Existentialist philosopher
65Victor Fleming 2/23/1883 - 1/6/1949
American motion-picture director
89William Shirer 2/23/1904 - 12/28/1993
American journalist, historian and novelist
74Allan MacLeod Cormack 2/23/1924 - 5/7/1998
South African-bn. Am. Nobel Prize-winning physicist

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