02-23-2005, 06:18 AM
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Location: Maryland
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February 23rd
1633 ~ Birthday of Samuel Pepys, Diarist.
1685 ~ Birthday of Georg Friederich Händel, Composer.
1732 ~ First performance of Händel's Orlando, in London.
1855 ~ Death of Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician, Astronomer, Physicist.
1893 ~ Rudolf Diesel received a patent for the diesel engine.
1915 ~ Birthday of Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay
1927 ~ The Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) began to regulate the use of radio frequencies.
1945 ~ WWII - US flag raised over Iwo Jima: The 28th Regiment of the 5th Marines take Mount Suribachi
1965 ~ Death of Stan Laurel, Actor & Comedian
1998 ~ Osama bin Laden published a fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Crusaders.
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