February 23<\/p>\n
1821
\nJohn Keats, English Romantic poet, died.<\/p>\n
1836
\nMexican general Santa Anna began the siege of the Alamo.<\/p>\n
1896
\nThe Tootsie Roll was introduced by Leo Hirshfield.<\/p>\n
1898<\/p>\n
French novelist Emile Zola was convicted of libel and sentenced to jail for writing his “J’accuse” letter accusing the government of anti-Semitism and wrongly jailing Captain Alfred Dreyfus.<\/p>\n
1942
\nThe first Axis shelling of U.S. soil took place near Santa Barbara, Calif.<\/p>\n
1945
\nU.S. Marines raised the American flag on Iwo Jima.<\/p>\n
1997
\nScottish scientists announced the successful cloning of a sheep, Dolly.<\/p>\n
2011
\nThe Obama Administration determines that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n
Birthdays<\/p>\n
Samuel Pepys
\ndiarist (1633)<\/p>\n
George Frideric Handel
\nGerman-English Composer (1685)<\/p>\n
W. E. B. DuBois
\nauthor (1868)<\/p>\n
Peter Fonda
\nactor (1939)<\/p>\n
Viktor Yushchenko
\npolitician, president (1954)<\/p>\n
Crown Prince Naruhito
\nheir to the Japanese throne (1960)<\/p>\n
Michael Dell
\nentrepreneur (1965)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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