{"id":25674,"date":"2016-02-23T08:55:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T14:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=25674"},"modified":"2016-02-23T08:17:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T14:17:57","slug":"today-in-history-165","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=25674","title":{"rendered":"Today In History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Today in History: Tuesday, February\u00a0 23, 2016<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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AP Highlight in History:<\/span>
\nOn Feb. 23, 1945, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi and raised the American flag. The moment was captured in a Pulitzer Prize winning photo by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal.
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AP Photo\/Joe Rosenthal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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On this date in:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1685<\/td>\nComposer George Frideric Handel was born in Germany.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1822<\/td>\nBoston was granted a charter to incorporate as a city.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1836<\/td>\nThe siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texas.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1847<\/td>\nU.S. troops under Gen. Zachary Taylor defeated Mexican general Santa Anna at the Battle of Buena Vista in Mexico.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1848<\/td>\nJohn 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1861<\/td>\nPresident-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington to take office after an assassination plot was foiled in Baltimore.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1870<\/td>\nMississippi was readmitted to the Union.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1954<\/td>\nThe first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine began, in Pittsburgh.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1965<\/td>\nStan Laurel of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy died at age 74.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1991<\/td>\nPresident George H.W. Bush announced that the allied ground offensive against Iraqi forces had begun.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997<\/td>\nScientists in Scotland announced they had cloned an adult mammal, producing a lamb named Dolly.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999<\/td>\nA jury in Jasper, Texas, convicted white supremacist John William King of murder in the dragging death of an African-American man, James Byrd Jr.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/td>\nCarlos Santana won eight Grammy Awards for his album “Supernatural,” tying the record set by Michael Jackson in 1983 for “Thriller.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/td>\nNorah Jones won five Grammy Awards for the album “Come Away With Me.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\nThe Obama administration said it would no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law banning recognition of same-sex marriage.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Today’s Birthdays:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Actress Emily Blunt turns 33 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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AP Photo\/Joel Ryan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Peter Fonda<\/td>\nActor, director<\/td>\n76<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fred Biletnikoff<\/td>\nFootball Hall of Famer<\/td>\n73<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Patricia Richardson<\/td>\nActress (“Home Improvement”)<\/td>\n65<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brad Whitford<\/td>\nRock musician (Aerosmith)<\/td>\n64<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Howard Jones<\/td>\nRock singer<\/td>\n62<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kristin Davis<\/td>\nActress (“Sex and the City”)<\/td>\n51<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Josh Gad<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Actress Dakota Fanning turns 22 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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