Subject: February 23rd

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1633 ~ Birthday of Samuel Pepys, Diarist.



1685 ~ Birthday of Georg Friederich Händel, Composer.



1836 ~ The siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio , Texas.



1855 ~ Death of Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician & Physicist.



1893 ~ Rudolf Diesel received a patent for the diesel engine.



1915 ~ Birthday of Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay.



1927 ~ President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill creating the Federal Radio Commission, forerunner of the Federal Communications Commission.



1945 ~ The Stars and Stripes raised over Iwo Jima . The 28th Regiment of the 5th Marine Division took Mount Suribachi.



1954 ~ Lasting prevention of polio reported in vaccine tests.



1965 ~ Death of Stan Laurel, Actor & Comedian.


Sorry that this was late getting in. Spent all day yesterday in bed running 101.5 fever and genereally feeling like crap. Hopefully, the worst is over now.