{"id":18655,"date":"2020-02-23T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T06:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=18655"},"modified":"2020-02-20T16:14:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T10:44:37","slug":"history-of-23-february-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-23-february-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 23 February"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 23 February<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> &#8211; 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.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong> &#8211; Gary Coleman won a $1,280,000 lawsuit against his parents.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995<\/strong> &#8211; The Dow Jones Industrial closed about 4,000 for the first time at 4,003.33.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong> &#8211; NBC-TV aired &#8220;Schindler&#8217;s List.&#8221; It was completely uncensored.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong> &#8211; Ali Hassan Abu Kamal, a Palestinian teacher, opened fire on the 86th-floor observation deck of New York City&#8217;s Empire State Building. He killed one person and wounded six more before killing himself.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; In central\u00a0Florida, tornadoes killed 42 people and damaged and\/or destroyed about 2,600 homes and businesses.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; In Ankara, Turkey, Abdullah Ocalan was charged with treason. The prosecutors were seeking the death penalty for the Kurdish rebel leader.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; White supremacist 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\u00a0Texas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; Robby Knievel made a successful motorcycle jump of 200 feet over an oncoming train.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2005<\/strong> &#8211; The New York, NY, city medical examiner&#8217;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.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2007<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0train derails\u00a0on an evening express service near\u00a0Grayrigg,\u00a0Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 88. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2008<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0United States Air Force\u00a0B-2 Spirit\u00a0bomber\u00a0crashes on Guam, marking the first operational loss of a B-2.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2010<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Unknown criminals pour more than 2\u200b<sup>1<\/sup>\u2044<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0million liters of\u00a0diesel oil\u00a0and other\u00a0hydrocarbons\u00a0into the river\u00a0Lambro, in northern Italy, sparking an\u00a0environmental disaster.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2012<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0series of attacks\u00a0across\u00a0Iraq\u00a0leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2017<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Turkish-backed\u00a0Free Syrian Army\u00a0captures Al-Bab\u00a0from\u00a0ISIL.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2019<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Atlas Air Flight 3591\u00a0crashes into\u00a0Trinity Bay\u00a0near\u00a0Anahuac, Texas, killing all three people on board.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Gareth Barry, English footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Josh Gad, American actor, producer, and screenwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Charles Tillman, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Adam Hann-Byrd, American actor and screenwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mido, Egyptian footballer, striker, manager and sportscaster<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Aziz Ansari, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Emily Blunt, English actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Emerson Concei\u00e7\u00e3o, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Skylar Grey, American singer-songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Kazuya Kamenashi, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jerod Mayo, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ola Svensson, Swedish singer-songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ab-Soul, American rapper<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Theophilus London, Trinidadian-American singer-songwriter and producer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Zak Kirkup, Member of the\u00a0Parliament of Western Australia<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013 Nicol\u00e1s Gait\u00e1n, the Argentinian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Evan Bates, American ice dancer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0J\u00e9r\u00e9my Pied, French footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kevin Connauton, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Terry Hawkridge, English footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Marco Scandella, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Casemiro, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Greek footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Chris Grevsmuhl, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dakota Fanning, American actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Andrew Wiggins, Canadian basketball player<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 23 February 1991 &#8211; 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. 1993 &#8211; Gary Coleman won a $1,280,000 lawsuit against his parents. 1995 &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,1047,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-18655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-23-february","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-4QT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18678,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18655\/revisions\/18678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}