February 23......

February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 311 (312 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 155 - Martyrdom of Polycarp, an early Church Father who was a disciple of the Apostle John. Arrested at age 86, Polycarp was burned at the stake for refusing to deny the Christian faith.

● 303 Emperor Diocletian orders general persecution of Christians

● 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed from movable type.

● 1574 - France begins 5th Holy War against Huguenots (French Protestants)

● 1660 - Charles XI becomes King of Sweden.

● 1668 - Fire in Wiener Hofburg in Vienna, emperor Leopold I rescued

● 1672 - Joan Blaeus publishers destroyed by fire in Amsterdam

● 1685 - Composer George Frideric Handel was born in Germany.

● 1689 - Dutch prince William III proclaimed king of England

● 1744 - Colonial missionary to the American Indians David Brainerd wrote in his journal: 'There is a God in heaven who over-rules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.'

● 1775 - Patrick Henry addresses a Virginia convention, uttering the admonition "Give me liberty, or give me death."

● 1775 - Anglican hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'How great and honorable is the privilege of a true believer! That he has neither wisdom nor strength in himself is no disadvantage, for he is connected with infinite wisdom and almighty power.

● 1778 - American Revolution: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army.

● 1792 - Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated (erected life-saving stations for distressed mariners)

● 1797 - French Forces launch a failed invasion of Britain. See Last Invasion of Britain

● 1804 - Conspirators against Napoleon, for restoration of Louis XVIII

● 1813 - 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham MA

● 1820 - Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.

● 1821 - College of Apothecaries organized in Philadelphia; 1st US pharmacy college

● 1822 - Boston is incorporated as a city

● 1830 - Oxford, Ohio, home of Miami University, is incorporated.

● 1834 - Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in his journal: 'Rose early to seek God and found Him whom my soul loveth. Who would not rise early to meet such company?'

● 1836 - The Siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.

● 1839 - In Boston, MA, William F. Harnden organized the first express service between Boston and New York City. It was the first express service in the U.S.

● 1846 - Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated

● 1847 - Mexican-American War: Battle of Buena Vista - In Mexico, American troops defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

● 1848 - John 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.

● 1852 - Fourteen hundred ton paddle-wheel steamer HMS Birkenhead runs aground on rocks near the Cape of Good Hope. As the ship began to sink, soldiers were ordered to stand in ranks on deck while women and children were loaded into lifeboats. Some 200 were saved by lifeboats, and another 30-40 were pulled from the wreckage of boat, but 420 others died, almost all soldiers. This incident established the now traditional concepts of "women and children first" and "going down with the ship."

● 1854 - The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared.

● 1861 - President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after an assassination attempt in Baltimore, Maryland.

● 1861 - By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US

● 1861 - Dutch Premier Floris A van Hall resigns

● 1868 - W.E.B. DuBois, the American sociologist who co-founded the N.A.A.C.P., was born.

● 1869 - Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law

● 1870 - Military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.

● 1874 - Walter Winfield patents a game called "sphairistike," now more commonly called lawn tennis.

● 1875 - J. Palisa discovered asteroid #143 (aka Adria).

● 1883 - Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an antitrust law.

● 1883 - American Anti-Vivisection Society organized (Philadelphia)

● 1883 - Belgium - In Ganshoren, a bomb being carried by the French anarchists Antoine Cyvoct and Paul Metayer, accidentally explodes. Metayer died the following day, refusing to reveal anything to the police about his activities. Cyvoct was extradited to France to be tried for an attack in Lyon.

● 1886 - Charles M. Hall completed his invention of aluminum.

● 1886 - London Times publishes world's 1st classified ad

● 1887 - Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco

● 1887 - The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.

● 1892 - 1st college student government established, Bryn Mawr PA

● 1893 - Leon-Jules Leauthier, young anarchist shoemaker, sentenced to life in prison for stabbing and seriously wounding minister of Serbia in Paris.

● 1893 - Rudolf Diesel receives a patent for the diesel engine.

● 1895 - William Heard, AME minister & educator, named minister to Liberia

● 1898 - Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of anti-Semitism and wrongfully placing Captain Alfred Dreyfus in jail.

● 1899 - Birth of Erich Kestner (1899-1974). German satirist/poet/novelist, whose military experiences made him pacifist and opponent of totalitarian systems.

● 1900 - In South Africa the Boers and British troops fight in the Battle of Hart's Hill.

● 1900 - Steamer "Rio de Janeiro" sinks in San Francisco Bay

● 1903 - Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".

● 1904 - William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Chronicle begins publishing articles on the menace of Japanese laborers, leading to a resolution of the California Legislature that action be taken against their immigration.

● 1904 - For $10 million the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.

● 1905 - Chicago, Illinois attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.

● 1909 - The Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.

● 1909 - Russian tsar Nicolas II dissolves Finnish Diet

● 1911 - Commanchee chieftain Quanah Parker dies.

● 1915 - Germany sinks US ships Carib & Evelyn & torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin

● 1915 - Nevada enforces convenient divorce law

● 1916 - Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial $1 gold coin

● 1916 - French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun

● 1917 - First demonstrations in Petrograd, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution.

● 1919 - Benito Mussolini forms the Fascist Party in Italy.

● 1921 - 1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in New York NY from San Francisco CA

● 1923 - German Republic day with laws against worker

● 1923 - Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5%

● 1924 - Egyptian textile strikers seize Alexandria.

● 1927 - The Federal Radio Commission began assigning frequencies, hours of operation and power allocations for radio broadcasters. On July 1, 1934 the name was changed to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

● 1929 - Arvo Vaara sentenced to six months in prison for article on illness of King of England.

● 1934 - Léopold III becomes King of Belgium.

● 1936 - Puerto Rican nationals assassinate Puerto Rico's U.S. police chief, E. Francic Riggs.

● 1936 - 1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake NY

● 1940 - World War II: Soviet Union troops conquer Lasi Island.

● 1941 - Plutonium was first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.

● 1942 - The first shelling of the U.S. mainland during World War II occurred as a Japanese submarine fired on an oil refinery in Ellwood, Calif.

● 1943 - General-Major Bradley arrives in Dakar & Marrakesh

● 1943 - German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia

● 1945 - 2nd Dutch government of Gerbrandy forms in London

● 1945 - Canadian troops occupy Kalkar

● 1945 - Operation Grenade General Simpson's 9th Army crosses Ruhr

● 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. The photo would later win a Pulitzer Prize.

● 1945 - World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by American forces.

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

● 1945 - World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is completely destroyed by a raid of 379 British bombers.

● 1947 - International Organization for Standardization(ISO) is founded.

● 1947 - General Eisenhower opens drive to raise $170 million in aid for European Jews

● 1954 - Syrian army drives out President Adib el-Shishakli

● 1954 - The first mass vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

● 1955 - First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).

● 1955 - Edgar Faure becomes Prime Minister of France.

● 1956 - In a cosmic event known as the great flare, the Earth was bombarded with a burst of protons and other nuclei from a solar flare.

● 1956 - 20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow

● 1956 - Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin

● 1957 - The founding congress of the Senegalese Popular Bloc is opened in Dakar.

● 1958 - Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio.

● 1958 - Arturo Frondizi elected President of Argentina

● 1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

● 1959 - Macmillan and Khrushchev talk peace; On his ten-day visit to the Soviet Union, the British Prime Minister forges cultural and trade links between East and West.

● 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1963 - Shocking wardens could be legal; Peter Hicks, a farmer who electrified his car to ward off traffic wardens in London's Covent Garden may be able to evade the law.

● 1965 - Comedian Stan Laurel died at age 74.

● 1966 - Aldo Moro forms Italian government

● 1966 - Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda

● 1966 - The Bitar government in Syria was ended with a military coup.

● 1967 - 25th amendment (Presidential succession) declared ratified

● 1967 - US troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War

● 1969 - Nayif Hawatimah forms Democratic People's Front for Liberation of Palestine

● 1970 - Guyana becomes a republic (National Day)

● 1970 - The Holy Eucharist was distributed by women for the first time in a Roman Catholic service.

● 1970 - In a costume action by the Los Angeles Gay Liberation Front, his Holiness Pope Morris the First goes to First Congregational Church and tacks an invoice for 90 billion dollars on the door. The amount represents 10,000 dollars for each of the nine million known executions of gay people at the instigation of clergy.

● 1971 - Lt. William Calley confesses he directed a mass execution of South Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, Viet Nam, and implicates his commanding officer, Capt. Ernest L. Medina, who he says issued the orders to murder. He got his wrists slapped and was sent home; Medina was never charged.

● 1972 - Hijackers surrender and free Lufthansa crew; Palestinian hijackers who took over a Lufthansa jet two days ago release the crew at an airfield in the Yemen.

● 1972 - Angela Davis is released from prison (after 16 months). She goes on trial five days later.

● 1973 - Gold goes up $10 overnight to record $95 an ounce in London

● 1974 - The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.

● 1975 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly two months early in the United States.

● 1979 - Frank Peterson Jr named 1st black general in Marine Corps

● 1980 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

● 1980 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini declared that Iran's new parliament would have to decide the fate of the hostages taken on November 4, 1979, at the U.S. embassy in Tehran.

● 1981 - 23-F, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.

● 1981 - "White Paper" on El Salvador issued by U.S. State Department defending U.S. intervention in support of death squad government.

● 1982 - Principality of Wales becomes a nuclear-free zone.

● 1983 - The Spanish Socialist government of Felipe González and Miguel Boyer nationalizes Rumasa, a holding of José María Ruiz Mateos.

● 1983 - The Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.

● 1985 - US Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as Attorney General

● 1987 - Supernova 1987A in LMC 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604

● 1987 - Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member

● 1990 - Sandanistas lose election after years of U.S. intervention, covert war, and economic sabotage.

● 1991 - During the Persian Gulf War, ground forces crossed the border of Saudi Arabia into the country of Iraq. Less than four days later the war was over due to the surrender or withdraw of Iraqi forces.

● 1991 - In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.

● 1992 - The Socialist Labour Party is founded in Georgia.

● 1995 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 30.28 to close at 4,003.33, closing above 4,000 for the first time.

● 1995 - Antoine Nduwayo appointed Premier of Burundi

● 1997 - Ali Hassan Abu Kamal, a Palestinian teacher, opened fire on the 86th-floor observation deck of New York City's Empire State Building. He killed one person and wounded six more before killing himself.

● 1997 - Scientists in Scotland announced they succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named "Dolly"

● 1997 - A large fire occurs in the Russian Space station, Mir.

● 1998 - A U.N.-brokered deal forces the U.S. to reluctantly give up plans for a new series of military strikes against Iraq.

● 1998 - Kissimmee Tornado Outbreak: Tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42.

● 1998 - Supreme Court lets Megan's Law stand

● 1998 - Osama bin Laden publishes a fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Crusaders.

● 1999 - White supremacict John William King was found guilty of kidnapping and murdering James Byrd Jr. Byrd was dragged behind a truck for two miles on a country road in Texas.

● 1999 - In Ankara, Turkey, Abdullah Ocalan was charged with treason. The prosecutors were seeking the death penalty for the Kurdish rebel leader.

● 1999 - An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.

● 2004 - The Army canceled its Comanche helicopter program after sinking $6.9 billion into it over 21 years.

● 2004 - Education Secretary Rod Paige likened the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers union, to a "terrorist organization" during a private White House meeting with governors.

● 2005 - The New York, NY, city medical examiner's office annouced that it had exhausted all efforts to identify the remains of the people killed at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, due to the limits of DNA technology. About 1,600 people had been identified leaving more than 1,100 unidentified.

● 2005 - Slovakia Summit 2005 begins, marking the first occasion when a sitting American President visits Slovakia; Bush and Putin are in attendance.

● 2005 - Vote of the controversial French law on colonialism, repealed start of 2006.

● 2006 - The 1 Billionth song was downloaded from the iTunes Music Store.

● 2007- The British TV programme Most Haunted Live goes abroad for the first ever time for 3 nights on LIVINGtv

BIRTHS

● 1417 - Pope Paul II (d. 1471)

● 1583 - Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (d. 1656)

● 1633 - Samuel Pepys, English naval administrator and man of letters, posthumously famous as a diarist (d. 1703)

● 1646 - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (d. 1709)

● 1648 - Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (d. 1730)

● 1680 - Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (d. 1767)

● 1685 - Georg Friedrich Handel, German/British Baroque composer (d. 1759)

● 1688 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)

● 1723 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791)

● 1729 - Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (d. 1809)

● 1743 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker (d. 1812)

● 1817 - George Frederick Watts, English painter and sculptor (d. 1904)

● 1840 - Carl Menger, Austrian economist (d. 1921)

● 1850 - Cesar Ritz, French founder of the Ritz hotel in Paris (d. 1918)

● 1868 - W.E.B. DuBois, American civil rights leader (d. 1963)

● 1873 - Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (d. 1929)

● 1874 - Konstantin Päts, Estonian president (d. 1956)

● 1878 - Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian painter and art theorist (d. 1935)

● 1879 - Norman Lindsay, Australian artist and novelist (d. 1969)

● 1883 - Victor Fleming, American director (d. 1949)

● 1883(81? NYT) - Karl Jaspers, German philosopher (d. 1969)

● 1889 - Musidora, French actress and director (d. 1957)

● 1899 - Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974)

● 1904 - William L. Shirer, American historian (d. 1993)

● 1904 - Leopold Trepper, Soviet spy (d. 1982)

● 1908 - William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1988)

● 1914 - Theofiel Middelkamp, Dutch cyclist (d. 2005)

● 1915 - Jon Hall, American actor (d. 1979)

● 1915 - Paul Tibbets, American pilot

● 1918 - Richard G. Butler, American fascist (d. 2004)

● 1924 - Allan McLeod Cormack, South-African born physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)

● 1928 - Vasili Lazarev, cosmonaut (d. 1990)

● 1932 - Majel Barrett, American actress

● 1937 - Tom Osborne, American football coach and politician

● 1938 - Diane Varsi, American actress (d. 1992)

● 1940 - Peter Fonda, American actor

● 1941 - Ron Hunt, baseball player

● 1943 - Fred Biletnikoff, American football player, coach and Hall of Fame member

● 1944 - John Sandford, Author

● 1944 - Johnny Winter, American musician

● 1944 - Bernard Cornwell, English historical novelist

● 1945 - Allan Boesak, South African activist

● 1946 - Rusty Young, Country musician (Poco)

● 1950 - Maxi, Irish singer and radio personality

● 1951 - Ed Jones, American football player

● 1951 - Patricia Richardson, American actress (''Home Improvement'')

● 1952 - Brad Whitford, American musician (Aerosmith)

● 1954 - Howard Jones, Rock singer

● 1954 - Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine

● 1955 - Tom Bodett, American voice actor, radio personality, and writer

● 1955 - Howard Jones, British pop singer

● 1958 - Tony Barrell, English writer and journalist

● 1958 - David Sylvian, English musician

● 1959 - Richard Dodds, British field hockey player

● 1960 - Alan Griffin, Australian politician and member for Bruce in the House of Representatives

● 1960 - Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan

● 1962 - Michael Wilton, Rock musician (Queensryche)

● 1963 - Bobby Bonilla, former baseball player

● 1964 - Dusty Drake, Country singer

● 1965 - Kristin Davis, American actress (''Sex and the City'')

● 1965 - Michael Dell, American computer manufacturer

● 1965 - Helena Suková, former Czech tennis player

● 1965 - Veronica Webb, American supermodel and actress

● 1968 - Marc Price, Actor

● 1969 - Marc Wauters, Belgian cyclist

● 1970 - Niecy Nash, American actress

● 1971 - Jeff Beres, Rock musician (Sister Hazel)

● 1971 - Melinda Messenger, English television presenter

● 1971 - Jeong Chan, South Korean actor

● 1972 - Steve Holy, American country singer

● 1973 - Lasse Johansson, Rock musician (The Cardigans)

● 1973 - André Tanneberger, German DJ

● 1974 - Jaime Villarreal, Mexican musician

● 1974 - Leko, American DJ

● 1975 - Michael Cornacchia, American actor

● 1975 - Robert Lopez, American composer

● 1976 - Kelly Macdonald, British actress

● 1977 - Kristina Šmigun, Estonian cross-country skier

● 1978 - Dan Snyder, Canadian hockey player (d. 2003)

● 1981 - Gareth Barry, English footballer

● 1981 - Charles Tillman, American football player

● 1982 - Austin Ryan Fuentes, American heir

● 1983 - Mido, Egyptian footballer

● 1986 - Holly Brook, American musician

● 1986 - Kamenashi Kazuya, Japanese idol (member of KAT-TUN)

● 1989 - Evan Bates, American ice dancer

● 1994 - Dakota Fanning, American child actress

DEATHS

● 1100 - Emperor Zhezong of China (b. 1077)

● 1270 - Saint Isabel of France, daughter of Louis VIII of France (b. 1225)

● 1447 - Pope Eugene IV (b. 1383)

● 1447 - Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1390)

● 1464 - Zhengtong, Emperor of China (b. 1427)

● 1526 - Diego Colón, Spanish Viceroy of the Indies

● 1554 - Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English politician (executed) (bc. 1515)

● 1572 - Pierre Certon, French composer

● 1603 - Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (b. 1519)

● 1669 - Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (b. 1600)

● 1704 - Georg Muffat, French composer (b. 1653)

● 1730 - Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)

● 1766 - Stanislaw Leszczynski, King of Poland (b. 1677)

● 1781 - George Taylor, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (bc. 1716)

● 1792 - Joshua Reynolds, English painter (b. 1723)

● 1800 - Joseph Warton, English literary critic (b. 1722)

● 1821 - John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)

● 1848 - John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)

● 1855 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)

● 1879 - Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (b. 1803)

● 1897 - Woldemar Bargiel, German composer (b. 1828)

● 1908 - Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (b. 1823)

● 1922 - Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish physicist (b. 1845)

● 1930 - Horst Wessel, Nazi ideologue and composer (b. 1907)

● 1934 - Edward Elgar, English composer (b. 1857)

● 1946 - Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (hanged) (b. 1885)

● 1948 - John Robert Gregg, Irish-born publisher and inventor (b. 1866)

● 1955 - Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868).

● 1965 - Stan Laurel, British born actor and comedian (b. 1890)

● 1969 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)

● 1973 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)

● 1974 - Harry Ruby, American composer and writer (b. 1895)

● 1976 - LS Lowry, English artist (b. 1887)

● 1979 - W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (b. 1900)

● 1983 - Herbert Howells, English Church Music Composer

● 1990 - José Napoleón Duarte, President of El Salvador (b. 1925)

● 1995 - Melvin Franklin, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1942)

● 1995 - James Herriot, English writer (b. 1916)

● 1997 - Tony Williams, American jazz drummer (b. 1945)

● 1999 - Carlos Hathcock, USMC Sniper, 93 Confirmed Kills (b. 1942)

● 2000 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (b. 1957)

● 2000 - Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b. 1915)

● 2003 - Robert K. Merton, American sociologist (b. 1910)

● 2004 - Vijay Anand, Indian film director (b. 1934)

● 2004 - Carl Anderson, American singer (b. 1945)

● 2004 - Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala (b. 1918)

● 2004 - Don Cornell, American singer (b. 1919)

● 2004 - Carl Liscombe, Canadian hockey player (b. 1915)

● 2006 - Benno Besson, Swiss actor and film director (b. 1922)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Alexander Akimetes
● St. Boswell
● St. Cerneuf
● St. Dositheus
● St. Felix of Brescia
● St. Florentius
● St. Jurmin
● St. Lazarus Zographos (d. 867)
● St. Martha
● St. Medrald
● St. Milburga
● St. Ordonius
● St. Peter Damian
● St. Polycarp of Smyrna (died 155)
● St. Romana
● St. Serenus the Gardener
● St. Willigis
● St. Zebinus

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 10 (Civil Date: February 23)
● Hieromartyr Charalampus, Bishop of Magnesia in Thessaly, and Martyrs Porphyrius and Baptus.
● Martyrs Ennatha, Valentina, and Paula of Palestine.
● St. Prochorus of the Kiev Caves.
● Saints Joachim, Luke, Germanus, Arcadius, Gregory, Martyrius, Anthony, Basil and Symeon, Bishops of Novgorod.
● St. Anna, wife of Yaroslav I.
● St. Longinus, monk of Koryazhemsk (Vologda).
● New-Martyr Anatole, Metropolitan of Odessa (1938).

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Charalampus (another) and three women companions.
● St. Anastasius, Archbishop of Jerusalem.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Areovindus.
● Hieromartyr Blaise, Bishop of Sebaste.
● St. Demetrius, monk, wonderworker of Priluki (Vologda).
● St. Vsevelod (in holy baptism Gabriel), wonderworker of Pskov.
● St. Theodora, wife of Emperor Theophilus the Iconoclast.
● New-Martyr George of Serbia.
● Repose of Archbishop Simon of Shanghai and Peking (1933).

● Old Roman Catholic:
● St. Peter Damian, bishop of Ostia/confessor/doctor

● Lutheran:
● St. Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, martyr
● Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, missionary

● Anglican:
● St. Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, martyr

● Roman Empire - Terminalia held in honor of Terminus, god of boundaries

● Guyana - Mashramani-Republic Day.

● Italy - Feast of the Incappucciati.

● Russia - Defender of the Fatherland Day (formerly Red Army Day or Day of Soviet Army and Navy).

● Brunei - National Day.

● US : Iwo Jima Day (1945)

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● World : Brotherhood Day (1934) - ( Sunday )


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

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