430 Historic Events for February 23
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| 1824 |
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Herman N van der Tuuk, Dutch philologist (Tobasch' Grammar)
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| 1828 |
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Mih ly Fazekar, Hungarian botanist/literary (Book of Spices), dies
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| 1831 |
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Hendrik W Mesdag, Dutch painter (Panorama Mesdag)
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| 1834 |
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Gustav Hermann Nachtigal, German physician/colonizer/consul in Tunis
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| 1836 |
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Alamo besieged by Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed
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| 1838 |
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Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
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| 1840 |
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Carl Menger, Austrian economist
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| 1846 |
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Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated
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| 1847 |
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Battle of Buena Vista M‚xico; Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans
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| 1848 |
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Thomas Paine Westendorf, composer
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| 1848 |
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John Quincy Adams, 6th US pres (1825-1829), dies of a stroke at 80
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| 1854 |
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Great-Britain and Orange Free state sign Convention of Bloemfontein
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| 1855 |
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Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies
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| 1859 |
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Theodor Batthy nyi, Hungarian statesman/contra revolutionary
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| 1861 |
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Dutch Premier Floris A van Hall resigns
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| 1861 |
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By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US
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| 1861 |
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Pres-elect Lincoln arrives secretly in Wash DC to take office
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| 1863 |
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Franz von Stuck, German painter (Der Krieg)
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| 1865 |
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Barney Dreyfuss, baseball owner (Pitts Pirates)
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| 1867 |
Death |
George Thomas Smart, composer, dies at 90
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| 1868 |
Birth |
William E B Du Bois, Mass, civil rights writer (Souls of Black Folk)
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| 1869 |
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Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law
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| 1869 |
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Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary (Soc-Dem)
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| 1870 |
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Mississippi is readmitted to US
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| 1873 |
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Dmitri Arakishvili, composer
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