Today in History - History - February 23rd

1906Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart in 20 for heavyweight boxing title

1999Hip Hop artist Eminem releases his first major record album 'The Slim Shady LP' (Grammy 2000 - Rap album)

1971George Harrison is fined & his driving license is suspended for 1 year

1968Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBAer to score 25,000 points

1847Battle of Buena Vista Mexico; Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans

19541st mass inoculation with salk vaccine (Pittsburgh)

2005Slovakia Summit 2005 begins, marking the first occasion when a sitting American President visits Slovakia; George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin are in attendance.

1938Joe Louis KOs Nathan Mann in 3 for heavyweight boxing title

1959Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open

1985Goaltender Patrick Roy makes his NHL debut for the Montreal Canadiens

1949Marc Garneau, Quebec City Quebec, Canadian astronaut (STS 13, 77)

1868William E B Du Bois, Great Barrington Massachusetts, civil rights activist and writer (Souls of Black Folk)

1994Dakota Fanning, American actress

1889Victor Fleming, American director (Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind), (d. 1949)

2013Former "Married ... with Children" actress Christina Applegate (41) weds rocker Martyn LeNoble (43) in Los Angeles

2003Actor Paul Rudd (33) weds publicist Julie Yaeger

1995James Herriot [Alfred Wight], Scottish author (All Creatures Great & Small), dies at 78

1821John Keats, Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome

1848John Quincy Adams, 6th US President (1825-1829), dies of a stroke at 80

1855Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies