February 23rd, 1954

Born on February 23rd, 1954

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What happened on February 23rd, 1954?

February 23rd, 1954

The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.

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What else 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.

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

Born on February 23rd, 1954

72

Viktor Yushchenko

Ukrainian politician who was President of Ukraine

*February 23rd, 1954, Khoruzhivka

72

Gundula Schulze Eldowy

German photographer

*February 23rd, 1954, Erfurt

72

Hlib Lonchyna

Ukrainian bishop

*February 23rd, 1954, Steubenville

72

Phyllis Thede

American politician in Iowa (born 1954)

*February 23rd, 1954, Chicago

72

Wiesław Jobczyk

Polish ice hockey player

*February 23rd, 1954, Siedlce

72

György Gerendás

Hungarian water polo player

*February 23rd, 1954, Budapest

72

Alexander Mashkevitch

Kyrgyzstani-Israeli businessman and investor

*February 23rd, 1954, Bishkek

72

Mary Glasspool

American anglican bishop

*February 23rd, 1954, Staten Island

72

Tomasz Robert Taylor

Polish-American physicist

*February 23rd, 1954, Poznań

57

Carlos Guirao

Musician (1954-2012)

*February 23rd, 1954, Barcelona †January 17th, 2012

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Born in 1954

71

François Hollande

President of France from 2012 to 2017

*August 12th, 1954, Rouen

72

Angela Merkel

Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021

*July 17th, 1954, Eimsbüttel

71

Renate Franz

German journalist and sport historian

*November 18th, 1954, Solingen

72

Lim Swee Say

Former Singaporean politician

*July 13th, 1954, Singapore

72

Rudolf Simek

Austrian philologist and Germanist

*February 21st, 1954, Eisenstadt

72

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

President of Turkey since 2014

*February 26th, 1954, Kasımpaşa

72

Bjørn Eidsvåg

Norwegian singer-songwriter

*March 17th, 1954, Sauda Municipality

71

Lorraine Bracco

American actress

*October 2nd, 1954, Brooklyn

72

Jackie Chan

Hong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1954)

*April 7th, 1954, Victoria Peak

67

Shinzō Abe

Prime Minister of Japan from 2006–2007 and 2012–2020 (1954-2022)

*September 21st, 1954, Shinjuku †July 8th, 2022, Nara Medical University Hospital

58

Hugo Chávez

President of Venezuela, 1999–2002 and 2002–2013

*July 28th, 1954, Sabaneta †March 5th, 2013, Hospital Militar de Caracas

71

Uli Stielike

German association football player and manager

*November 15th, 1954, Ketsch

71

Benno Möhlmann

German association football player and manager

*August 1st, 1954, Lohne

71

Karl-Heinz Körbel

German association football player and manager

*December 1st, 1954, Dossenheim

71

Hartmut Schade

German association football player and manager

*November 13th, 1954, Radeberg

71

Sven-Erik Bucht

Swedish politician

*December 28th, 1954, Karungi

72

Eckhardt Rehberg

German politician

*April 3rd, 1954, Ribnitz-Damgarten

71

Emir Kusturica

Serbian and French film director, screenwriter, writer, actor and musician

*November 24th, 1954, Sarajevo

71

Alexander Lukashenko

President of Belarus since 1994

*August 30th, 1954, Kopyś

71

Malcolm Turnbull

Prime Minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018

*October 24th, 1954, Sydney

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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.

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Born on February 23rd, 1954
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1954 is a normal year and no leap year.

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