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1954 : Vaccination against polio On 23 February 1954, the first injections of the vaccine against polio developed by Jonas Salk, the first vaccine that was safe and effective, were made on children from Arsenal Elementary School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1966 : Military Coup in Syria On 23 February 1966 a military coup, led by a member of the Baath party, Salah Jadid, overthrew the Baathist - but from another faction - military government - in Syria.
1987 : Supernova 1987A On February 23, 1987, the light from the supernova 1987A, the result of the cataclysmic explosion of a giant star, starts to reach the earth. It is believed that the explosion occurred in the Large Magellanic Cloud, 51.4 kiloparsecs (approximately 168 000 light-years) from Earth.
1991 : Military Coup in Thailand On February 23, 1991, a coup led by General Sunthorn Kongsompong overthrew the government of Chatichai Choonhavan.

National Day in Brunei
Defender of the Fatherland Day On February 23 we celebrate the Defender of the Fatherland Day, which was formerly the Red Army Day.

John Keats
Love is my religion - I could die for it.

Georg Friedrich Handel, Compositor inglés (1685)
César Ritz, Hotelero suizo (1850)
Victor Fleming, Director de cine americano (1889)
William McMahon, Primer ministro de Australia (1908)
Allan McLeod Cormack, Físico estadounidense, Premio Nobel (1924)
Claude Sautet, Director de cine francés (1924)
Régine Crespin , Soprano francesa (1927)
Jacques Séguéla, Anunciante francés (1934)
Peter Fonda, Actor americano (1940)
Brad Whitford, Músico estadounidense (Aerosmith) (1952)
Viktor Yushchenko, Presidente de Ucrania (1954)
Louis Bertignac, Guitarrista francés (1954)
Dominique de Lacoste, Comediante francesa (Les Vamps) (1958)
Clayton Anderson, Astronauta americano (1959)
Carole Gaessler, Periodista francesa (1968)
Malia Metella, Nadadora francesa (1982)
Mido, Futbolista egipcio (1983)
Emily Blunt, Actriz Inglesa (1983)
Kazuya Kamenashi, Cantante japonés (1986)
Dakota Fanning, Actriz americana (1994)

Zhengtong, Emperador de China (1464)
Joshua Reynolds, Pintor inglés (1792)
John Keats, Poeta inglés (1821)
John Quincy Adams, Presidente 6 de Estados Unidos (1848)
Nellie Melba, Soprano australiana (1931)
Edward Elgar, Compositor inglés (1934)
Paul Claudel, Escritor francés (1955)
Stan Laurel, Actor inglés (1965)
Dickinson W. Richards, Médico estadounidense, Premio Nobel de Medicina (1973)
L. S. Lowry, Artista Inglés (1976)
Robert Enrico, Director de cine francés (2001)

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