February 23: Day Of The Week
February 23, 2013 is the 54th day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 311 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Doyōbi.
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Here’s the February calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
| February | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
| 1 | 2 | |||||
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | ||
Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
February 23 Historical Events
- 1660 –Charles XI becomes King of Sweden.
- 1861 –President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1870 –In the United States, post-Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
- 1883 –Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an antitrust law.
- 1898 –Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing “J'accuse”, a letter accusing the French government of anti-Semitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
- 1941 –Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
- 1942 –World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the California coastline near Santa Barbara.
- 1955 –First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
- 1974 –The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
- 2008 –A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit crashes on Guam. It is the first operational loss of a B-2.
Who were born on February 23?
- 1417 –Pope Paul II (d. 1471)
- 1633 –Samuel Pepys, English naval administrator and man of letters, posthumously famous as a diarist (d. 1703)
- 1850 –César Ritz, Swiss hotelier (d. 1918)
- 1874 –Konstantin Päts, Estonian president (d. 1956)
- 1918 –Richard G. Butler, founder of Aryan Nations (d. 2004)
- 1928 –Hans Herrmann, German race car driver
- 1948 –Doug Moench, American comic book writer
- 1975 –Robert Lopez, American composer
- 1976 –Kelly Macdonald, British actress
- 1986 –Jerod Mayo, American football player
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