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February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 311 days remain until the end of the year (312 in leap years).

Events[]

  • 303Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.[1]
  • 532Byzantine emperor Justinian I orders the building of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople – the Hagia Sophia.
  • 1455 – Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
  • 1554Mapuche forces, under the leadership of Lautaro, score a victory over the Spanish at the Battle of Marihueñu in Chile.
  • 1653 – The Ballet Royal de la Nuit is first performed at the Salle du Petit-Bourbon in Paris.[2]
  • 1739 – At York Castle, the outlaw Dick Turpin is identified by his former schoolteacher. Turpin had been using the name Richard Palmer.
  • 1778American Revolutionary War: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army.
  • 1820Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.
  • 1836Texas Revolution: The Siege of the Alamo (prelude to the Battle of the Alamo) begins in San Antonio, Texas.
  • 1847Mexican–American War: Battle of Buena Vista: In Mexico, American troops under future president General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
  • 1854 – The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared.
  • 1861 – President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
  • 1870Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
  • 1883Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an anti-trust law.
  • 1885Sino-French War: French Army gains an important victory in the Battle of Đồng Đăng in the Tonkin region of Vietnam.
  • 1886Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of aluminium from the electrolysis of aluminium oxide, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall.[3]
  • 1887 – The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
  • 1898Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing J'Accuse…!, a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
  • 1900Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
  • 1903Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
  • 1905 – Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
  • 1909 – The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
  • 1917 – First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution (March 8 in the Gregorian calendar).
  • 1927 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
  • 1927 – German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
  • 1934Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
  • 1941Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
  • 1942World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the coastline near Santa Barbara, California.
  • 1943 – A fire breaks out at Saint Joseph's Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 35 children and one adult.
  • 1943 – Greek Resistance: The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth is founded in 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 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 all 2,147 captives of the Los Baños internment camp, in what General Colin Powell later would refer to as "the textbook airborne operation for all ages and all armies."
  • 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.
  • 1947International Organization for Standardization is founded.
  • 1954 – The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
  • 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.
  • 1980Iran 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.
  • 1987Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
  • 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 people.
  • 1999Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
  • 2007 – A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 88. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.
  • 2008 – A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber crashes on Guam, marking the first operational loss of a B-2.
  • 2010 – Unknown criminals pour more than 2​12 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.
  • 2017 – The Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army captures Al-Bab from ISIL.
  • 2019Atlas Air Flight 3591, a Boeing 767 freighter, crashes into Trinity Bay near Anahuac, Texas, killing all three people on board.[4]

Births[]

  • 1417Pope Paul II (d. 1471)[5]
  • 1417 – Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1479)
  • 1443Matthias Corvinus, Hungarian king (d. 1490)
  • 1529Onofrio Panvinio, Italian historian (d. 1568)
  • 1539Henry XI of Legnica, thrice Duke of Legnica (d. 1588)
  • 1539 – Salima Sultan Begum, Empress of the Mughal Empire (d. 1612)
  • 1583Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer (d. 1656)
  • 1592Balthazar Gerbier, Dutch painter (d. 1663)
  • 1633Samuel Pepys, English diarist and politician (d. 1703)[6]
  • 1646Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shōgun (d. 1709)
  • 1680Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, Canadian politician, 2nd Colonial Governor of Louisiana (d. 1767)
  • 1685George Frideric Handel, German-English organist and composer (d. 1759)
  • 1723Richard Price, Welsh-English minister and philosopher (d. 1791)
  • 1744Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker and businessman (d. 1812)
  • 1792José Joaquín de Herrera, Mexican politician and general. President three times (1844–1854) (d. 1854)[7]
  • 1831Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch painter (d. 1915)
  • 1840Carl Menger, Austrian economist and educator (d. 1921)
  • 1842Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher and author (d. 1906)
  • 1850César Ritz, Swiss businessman, founded The Ritz Hotel, London and Hôtel Ritz Paris (d. 1918)
  • 1868W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, and activist (d. 1963)
  • 1868 – Anna Hofman-Uddgren, Swedish actress, singer, and director (d. 1947)
  • 1873Liang Qichao, Chinese journalist, philosopher, and scholar (d. 1929)
  • 1874Konstantin Päts, Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Estonia (d. 1956)
  • 1878Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian painter and theorist (d. 1935)
  • 1883Karl Jaspers, German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (d. 1969)
  • 1883 – Guy C. Wiggins, American painter (d. 1962)
  • 1889Musidora, French actress and director (d. 1957)
  • 1889 – Cyril Delevanti, English-American actor (d. 1975)
  • 1889 – Victor Fleming, American director, cinematographer, and producer (d. 1949)
  • 1889 – John Gilbert Winant, American captain, pilot, and politician, 60th Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1947)
  • 1892Kathleen Harrison, English actress (d. 1995)
  • 1892 – Agnes Smedley, American journalist and writer (d. 1950)[8]
  • 1894Harold Horder, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 1978)
  • 1899Erich Kästner, German author and poet (d. 1974)
  • 1899 – Norman Taurog, American director and screenwriter (d. 1981)
  • 1904Terence Fisher, English director and screenwriter (d. 1980)
  • 1904 – William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian (d. 1993)
  • 1908William McMahon, Australian lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1988)
  • 1915Jon Hall, American actor and director (d. 1979)
  • 1915 – Paul Tibbets, American general and pilot (d. 2007)
  • 1919Johnny Carey, Irish footballer and manager (d. 1995)
  • 1920Paul Gérin-Lajoie, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2018)
  • 1923Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan jurist and politician, President of Uruguay (d. 2014)
  • 1923 – Harry Clarke, English international footballer, defender (d. 2000) [9]
  • 1923 – Ioannis Grivas, Greek judge and politician, 176th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2016)
  • 1923 – Dante Lavelli, American football player (d. 2009)
  • 1923 – Clarence D. Lester, African-American fighter pilot (d.1986)
  • 1923 – Mary Francis Shura, American author (d. 1991)
  • 1924Allan McLeod Cormack, South-African-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
  • 1925Louis Stokes, American lawyer and politician (d. 2015)
  • 1927Régine Crespin, French soprano and actress (d. 2007)
  • 1928Hans Herrmann, German race car driver
  • 1928 – Vasily Lazarev, Russian colonel, physician, and astronaut (d. 1990)
  • 1929Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow (d. 2008)
  • 1929 – Elston Howard, American baseball player and coach (d. 1980)
  • 1930Paul West, English-American author, poet, and academic (d. 2015)
  • 1931Tom Wesselmann, American painter and sculptor (d. 2004)
  • 1932Majel Barrett, American actress and producer (d. 2008)
  • 1937Tom Osborne, American football player, coach, and politician
  • 1938Sylvia Chase, American broadcast journalist (d. 2019)[10]
  • 1938 – Paul Morrissey, American director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1938 – Diane Varsi, American actress (d. 1992)
  • 1940Peter Fonda, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2019)
  • 1940 – Jackie Smith, American football player
  • 1941Ron Hunt, American baseball player
  • 1943Fred Biletnikoff, American football player and coach
  • 1943 – Bobby Mitchell, American golfer (d. 2018)
  • 1944Bernard Cornwell, English author and educator
  • 1944 – Florian Fricke, German keyboard player and composer (d. 2001)
  • 1944 – Johnny Winter, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2014)
  • 1945Allan Boesak, South African cleric and politician
  • 1946Rusty Young, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1947Pia Kjærsgaard, Danish politician, Speaker of the Danish Parliament
  • 1947 – Anton Mosimann, Swiss chef and author
  • 1948Bill Alexander, English director and producer
  • 1948 – Trevor Cherry, English footballer (d. 2020)
  • 1948 – Steve Priest, English singer-songwriter and bass player (d. 2020)
  • 1949César Aira, Argentinian author and translator
  • 1949 – Marc Garneau, Canadian engineer, astronaut, and politician
  • 1950Rebecca Goldstein, American philosopher and author
  • 1951Eddie Dibbs, American tennis player
  • 1951 – Debbie Friedman, American singer-songwriter of Jewish melodies (d. 2011)[11]
  • 1951 – Ed "Too Tall" Jones, American football player and boxer
  • 1951 – Patricia Richardson, American actress
  • 1952Brad Whitford, American guitarist and songwriter
  • 1953Kenny Bee, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
  • 1953 – Satoru Nakajima, Japanese race car driver
  • 1954Rajini Thiranagama, Sri Lankan physician and academic (d. 1989)
  • 1954 – Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrainian captain and politician, 3rd President of Ukraine
  • 1955Howard Jones, English singer-songwriter
  • 1955 – Flip Saunders, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
  • 1956Sandra Osborne, Scottish politician
  • 1958David Sylvian, English singer-songwriter
  • 1959Clayton Anderson, American engineer and astronaut
  • 1959 – Nick de Bois, English politician
  • 1959 – Ian Liddell-Grainger, Scottish soldier and politician
  • 1959 – Linda Nolan, Irish singer and actress
  • 1960Naruhito, Emperor of Japan
  • 1962Michael Wilton, American guitarist
  • 1963Bobby Bonilla, American baseball player
  • 1963 – Radosław Sikorski, Polish journalist and politician, 11th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland
  • 1964John Norum, Norwegian guitarist and songwriter
  • 1965Michael Dell, American businessman
  • 1965 – Helena Suková, Czech-Monacan tennis player
  • 1967Steve Stricker, American golfer
  • 1967 – Chris Vrenna, American drummer, songwriter, and producer
  • 1969Michael Campbell, New Zealand golfer
  • 1969 – Martine Croxall, English journalist and television news presenter
  • 1969 – Daymond John, American fashion designer and businessman, founded FUBU
  • 1970Niecy Nash, American actress and producer
  • 1971Carin Koch, Swedish golfer
  • 1971 – Melinda Messenger, English model and television host
  • 1971 – Joe-Max Moore, American soccer player
  • 1972Alessandro Sturba, Italian footballer
  • 1972 – Rondell White, American baseball player
  • 1973Jeff Nordgaard, American-Polish basketball player
  • 1974Herschelle Gibbs, South African cricketer
  • 1974 – Robbi Kempson, South African rugby player
  • 1975Michael Cornacchia, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1975 – Ryan McCourt, Canadian artist
  • 1976Scott Elarton, American baseball player and coach
  • 1976 – Kelly Macdonald, Scottish actress
  • 1976 – Jeff O'Neill, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
  • 1977Kristina Šmigun-Vähi, Estonian skier
  • 1978Residente, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter
  • 1978 – Dan Snyder, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2003)
  • 1979S. E. Cupp, American journalist and author
  • 1981Gareth Barry, English footballer
  • 1981 – Josh Gad, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1981 – Charles Tillman, American football player
  • 1982Adam Hann-Byrd, American actor and screenwriter
  • 1983Mido, Egyptian footballer, striker, manager and sportscaster[12]
  • 1983 – Aziz Ansari, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1983 – Emily Blunt, English actress
  • 1986Emerson Conceição, Brazilian footballer
  • 1986 – Skylar Grey, American singer-songwriter
  • 1986 – Kazuya Kamenashi, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor
  • 1986 – Jerod Mayo, American football player
  • 1986 – Ola Svensson, Swedish singer-songwriter
  • 1987Ab-Soul, American rapper
  • 1987 – Theophilus London, Trinidadian-American singer-songwriter and producer
  • 1987 – Zak Kirkup, Member of the Parliament of Western Australia
  • 1988Nicolás Gaitán, Argentinian footballer
  • 1989Evan Bates, American ice dancer
  • 1989 – Jérémy Pied, French footballer
  • 1990Kevin Connauton, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1990 – Terry Hawkridge, English footballer
  • 1990 – Marco Scandella, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1992Casemiro, Brazilian footballer
  • 1992 – Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
  • 1993Chris Grevsmuhl, Australian rugby league player
  • 1994Dakota Fanning, American actress
  • 1995Andrew Wiggins, Canadian basketball player[13]
  • 1996D'Angelo Russell, American basketball player[14]
  • 1997Jamal Murray, Canadian basketball player[15]

Deaths[]

  • 715Al-Walid I, Umayyad caliph (b. 668)
  • 908Li Keyong, Shatuo military governor during the Tang Dynasty in China (b. 856)
  • 943Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, (b. 884)
  • 943 – David I, prince of Tao-Klarjeti (Georgia)
  • 1011Willigis, German archbishop (b. 940)
  • 1100Emperor Zhezong of Song (b. 1076)
  • 1270Isabel of France (b. 1225)
  • 1447Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1390)
  • 1447 – Pope Eugene IV (b. 1383)
  • 1464Emperor Yingzong of Ming (b. 1427)
  • 1473Arnold, Duke of Gelderland (b. 1410)
  • 1526Diego Colón, Spanish Viceroy of the Indies (b. c. 1479)
  • 1554Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire (b. 1515)
  • 1603Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (b. 1519)
  • 1603 – Franciscus Vieta, French mathematician (b. 1540)
  • 1620Nicholas Fuller, English politician (b. 1543)
  • 1704Georg Muffat, French organist and composer (b. 1653)
  • 1766Stanisław Leszczyński, Polish king (b. 1677)
  • 1781George Taylor, Irish-American blacksmith and politician (b. 1716)
  • 1792Joshua Reynolds, English painter and academic (b. 1723)
  • 1821John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)
  • 1848John Quincy Adams, American politician, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)
  • 1855Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)
  • 1859Zygmunt Krasiński, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1812)
  • 1879Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and politician, 10th Minister President of Prussia (b. 1803)
  • 1897Woldemar Bargiel, German composer and educator (b. 1828)
  • 1900Ernest Dowson, English poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1867)
  • 1908Friedrich von Esmarch, German surgeon and academic (b. 1823)
  • 1918Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1882)
  • 1930Horst Wessel, German SA officer (b. 1907)
  • 1931Nellie Melba, Australian soprano and actress (b. 1861)
  • 1934Edward Elgar, English composer and academic (b. 1857)
  • 1944Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and engineer (b. 1863)
  • 1946Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (b. 1885)
  • 1948John Robert Gregg, Irish-American publisher and educator (b. 1866)
  • 1955Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
  • 1965Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian (b. 1890)
  • 1969Madhubala, Indian actress and producer (b. 1933)
  • 1969 – Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 2nd King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)
  • 1973Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
  • 1974Harry Ruby, American composer and screenwriter (b. 1895)
  • 1976L. S. Lowry, English painter (b. 1887)
  • 1979W. A. C. Bennett, Canadian businessman and politician, 25th Premier of British Columbia (b. 1900)
  • 1983Herbert Howells, English organist and composer (b. 1892)
  • 1990José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran engineer and politician, President of El Salvador (b. 1925)
  • 1995James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (b. 1916)
  • 1997Tony Williams, American drummer, composer, and producer (b. 1945)
  • 1998Philip Abbott, American actor and director (b. 1924)
  • 1999The Renegade, American wrestler (b. 1965)
  • 2000Ofra Haza, Israeli singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1957)
  • 2000 – Stanley Matthews, English footballer and manager (b. 1915)
  • 2003Howie Epstein, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (b. 1955)
  • 2003 – Robert K. Merton, American sociologist and academic (b. 1910)
  • 2004Vijay Anand, Indian director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1934)
  • 2004 – Sikander Bakht, Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (b. 1918)
  • 2006Telmo Zarra, Spanish footballer (b. 1921)
  • 2007John Ritchie, English footballer (b. 1941)
  • 2008Janez Drnovšek, Slovenian economist and politician, 2nd President of Slovenia (b. 1950)
  • 2008 – Paul Frère, Belgian race car driver and journalist (b. 1917)
  • 2010Orlando Zapata, Cuban plumber and activist (b. 1967)
  • 2011Nirmala Srivastava, Indian religious leader, founded Sahaja Yoga (b. 1923)
  • 2012William Raggio, American lawyer and politician (b. 1926)
  • 2012 – David Sayre, American physicist and mathematician (b. 1924)
  • 2012 – Kazimierz Żygulski, Polish sociologist and activist (b. 1919)
  • 2013Eugene Bookhammer, American soldier and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (b. 1918)
  • 2013 – Joseph Friedenson, Holocaust survivor, Holocaust historian, Yiddish writer, lecturer and editor (b. 1922)[16]
  • 2013 – Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (b. 1920)
  • 2013 – Lotika Sarkar, Indian lawyer and academic (b. 1945)
  • 2014Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech-English Holocaust survivor, pianist and educator (b. 1903)
  • 2014 – Roger Hilsman, American soldier, academic, and politician (b. 1919)
  • 2015James Aldridge, Australian-English journalist and author (b. 1918)
  • 2015 – Rana Bhagwandas, Pakistani lawyer and judge, Chief Justice of Pakistan (b. 1942)
  • 2015 – W. E. "Bill" Dykes, American soldier and politician (b. 1925)
  • 2016Peter Lustig, German television host and author (b. 1937)
  • 2016 – Jacqueline Mattson, American baseball player (b. 1928)
  • 2019Katherine Helmond, American actress (b. 1929)[17]

Holidays and observances[]

  • Christian feast day:
    • Polycarp of Smyrna
    • Serenus the Gardener
    • February 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • The Emperor's Birthday, birthday of Naruhito, the current Emperor of Japan (Japan)
  • Mashramani-Republic Day (Guyana)
  • Meteņi (Latvia)
  • National Day (Brunei)
  • Red Army Day or Day of Soviet Army and Navy in the former Soviet Union, also held in various former Soviet republics:
    • Defender of the Fatherland Day (Russia)
    • Defender of the Fatherland and Armed Forces day (Belarus)
    • Armed Forces Day (Tajikistan) (Tajikistan)

References[]

  1. Wang (26 January 1998). Christianity and Imperial Culture: Chinese Christian Apologetics in the Seventeenth Century and their Latin Patristic Equivalent. BRILL. p. 16. ISBN 978-90-04-32000-0.
  2. Bjurström, Per (1962). Giacomo Torelli and Baroque Stage Design (2nd revised edition, translated from the Swedish. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell ed.). pp. 157–159. OCLC 10226792.
  3. Laparra, Maurice. "The Aluminium False Twins. Charles Martin Hall and Paul Héroult's First Experiments and Technological Options". Retrieved 2019-02-23.
  4. "DCA19MA086". www.ntsb.gov. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
  5. "Paul II | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  6. "Samuel Pepys | English diarist and naval administrator". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  7. "JOSÉ JOAQUÍN DE HERRERA" (in Spanish). Presidencia de la Republica de Mexico. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
  8. "Agnes Smedley, Encyclopaedia Britannica".
  9. "Harry Clarke". 11v11.com. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  10. Roberts, Sam (January 7, 2019). "Sylvia Chase, Pioneering Television Newswoman, Is Dead at 80". The New York Times.
  11. "Debbie Friedman, Singer of Jewish Music, Dies at 59". nytimes.com.
  12. "Ahmed Mido". soccerbase.com. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  13. "Andrew Wiggins". NBA.com. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  14. "D'Angelo Russell". NBA.com. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  15. "Jamal Murray". NBA.com. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  16. "Agudah Editor Joseph Friedenson Dies at 90". Forward.com. February 26, 2013. Retrieved November 29, 2019.
  17. "Katherine Helmond, the Man-Crazy Mother on 'Who's the Boss?' Dies at 89". The Hollywood Reporter.

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