February 23rd, 1536

Born on February 23rd, 1536

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 179,000 days old!

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What happened on February 23rd?

February 23rd, 2017

Syrian civil war: Allied troops led by the Turkish Armed Forces captured the city of al-Bab from the Islamic State.

February 23rd, 2008

A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber crashed on the runway shortly after takeoff from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam in the most expensive crash in U.S. Air Force history.

February 23rd, 1987

SN 1987A, the first supernova that modern astronomers were able to study in great detail, was observed from Earth occurring in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

February 23rd, 1971

Vietnam War: South Vietnamese General Đỗ Cao Trí was killed in a helicopter crash en route to taking control of the faltering Operation Lam Son 719.

February 23rd, 1945

American photographer Joe Rosenthal took the Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima during the Battle of Iwo Jima, an image that was later reproduced on the Marine Corps War Memorial.

February 23rd, 1943

35 children and 1 adult employee were killed in a fire at an orphanage in the town of Cavan, Ireland.

February 23rd, 1941

Plutonium was first chemically identified by chemist Glenn T. Seaborg and his team at the University of California, Berkeley.

February 23rd, 1886

American inventor Charles Martin Hall discovered an inexpensive method of producing aluminium.

February 23rd, 1847

Mexican–American War: The United States Army used artillery to repulse the much larger Mexican army at the Battle of Buena Vista near Saltillo.

February 23rd, 1778

American Revolutionary War: Prussian military officer Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben arrived at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania as a volunteer for the Continental Army.

February 23rd, 1739

The identity of English highwayman Dick Turpin was uncovered by his former schoolmate, who recognised his handwriting, leading to Turpin's trial.

February 23rd, 1725

Johann Sebastian Bach premiered his Shepherd Cantata for the birthday of Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (pictured).

February 23rd, 1725

J. S. Bach leads his Tafel-Music Shepherd Cantata for the birthday of Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels.

February 23rd, 2020

Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old African-American citizen, is shot and murdered by three white men after visiting a house under construction while jogging at a neighborhood in Satilla Shores near Brunswick in Glynn County, Georgia.

February 23rd, 2019

Atlas Air Flight 3591, a Boeing 767 freighter, crashes into Trinity Bay near Anahuac, Texas, killing all three people on board.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on February 23rd

Same year
Born in 1536

62

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Japanese samurai and daimyo (1537–1598)

*February 2nd, 1536, Nakamura-ku †September 18th, 1598, Fushimi Castle

76

Piotr Skarga

Polish writer (1536-1612)

*February 2nd, 1536, Grójec †September 27th, 1612, Kraków

61

Barbara of Hesse

16th-century German noblewoman

*April 8th, 1536, Kassel †June 8th, 1597, Schloss Waldeck

52

Sassa Narimasa

Daimyo

*February 6th, 1536, Nagoya †August 7th, 1588, Fushimi Castle

51

Diego Durán

Dominican friar (1537-1588)

*November 30th, 1536, Seville †November 30th, 1587, Mexico City

31

Margaret of Austria

Austrian archduchess

*February 16th, 1536, Innsbruck †March 12th, 1567, Hall in Tirol

76

Leonardo Donato

Doge of Venice (1536-1612)

*February 12th, 1536, Venice †July 16th, 1612, Venice

29

Ashikaga Yoshiteru

13th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate

*March 31st, 1536, Nanzen-ji †June 17th, 1565, Kyoto

67

Stephan Praetorius

German theologian

*May 3rd, 1536, Salzwedel †May 4th, 1603, Salzwedel

87

Juan de Mariana

Spanish historian

*September 25th, 1536, Talavera de la Reina †February 17th, 1624, Toledo

47

Yi I

Joseon civil servant & Neo-Confucianist (1536 – 1584)

*December 26th, 1536, Gangneung †January 1st, 1584, Hanseongbu

57

Antonio Calcagni

Italian artist (1536-1593)

*January 1st, 1536, Recanati †January 1st, 1593, Recanati

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on February 23rd

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Red Army Day or Day of Soviet Army and Navy in the former Soviet Union, also held in various former Soviet republics) which are celebrated on February 23rd.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

Yes: 1536 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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