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The following events took place on February 23. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 58 events. Showing 31 - 58.

• 1943

  A fire breaks out at St. Joseph’s Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 36 people (35 of whom are children).
• 1943

  Greek Resistance: The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth is founded is Greece.
• 1944

  The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia.
• 1945

  World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a U.S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.
• 1945

  World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Baños internment camp.
• 1945

  World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.
• 1945

  World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
• 1945

  World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers.
• 1947

  The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.
• 1954

  The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
• 1955

  First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
• 1958

  Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world F1 champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
• 1966

  In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist.
• 1974

  The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
• 1980

  Iran hostage crisis: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran’s parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
• 1981

  In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
• 1983

  The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
• 1987

  Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
• 1991

  Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.
• 1991

  In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
• 1998

  In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42.
• 1999

  Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
• 1999

  An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
• 2005

  The controversial French law on colonialism is passed, requiring teachers to teach the “positive values of colonialism”. After public outcry, it is repealed at the beginning of 2006.
• 2007

  A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 22. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.
• 2008

  A U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber crashes on Guam. It is the first operational loss of a B-2.
• 2010

  Unknown criminals pour more than 2.5 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in northern Italy, sparking an environmental disaster.
• 2012

  A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured.

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