This day in History - February 23

430 Historic Events for February 23
1916 Birth George Abel, Canada, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1972)
1916 Birth Martindale Sidwell, organist/conductor
1916 Birth William Walsh, academic
1917 Event February revolution begins in Russia
1917 Birth Kenneth Tobey, actor (Chuck-Whirlybirds) [or Mar 23]
1918 Birth Dom Aelred Watkin, headmaster (Downside School)
1919 Birth Johnny Carey, soccer star
1919 Birth Lord Ezra
1919 Event Fascist Party forms in Italy by Benito Mussolini
1920 Death Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky, composer, dies at 61
1920 Birth David Wright, poet
1920 Birth Hall Overton, Bangor Michigan, composer (Enchanted Pear Tree)
1920 Birth Lord St Levan
1921 Event 1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in NYC from SF
1923 Event Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5%
1923 Event German Republic day with laws against worker
1923 Birth Gery Florizoone, Flemish poet
1924 Birth Lejaren Hiller, composer
1924 Death Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th US President (1913-21), dies
1925 Birth Louis Stokes, (Rep-D-OH, 1969- )
1925 Birth Ian Smith, cricket leg-spinner (S Afr 1947-58 avg 64.08)
1926 Birth Regine Crespin, French vocalist (Sheherazade, Les Nuits D'ete)
1927 Event Pres Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FCC)
1927 Death Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson, composer, dies at 79
1927 Birth Ivan Hrusovsky, composer