Today in History - History - February 23rd

1919Fascist Party forms in Italy by Benito Mussolini

303Emperor Diocletian begins policy of persecution of Christians razing church at Nicomedia

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

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

1927Pres Calvin Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FRC)

1998Osama bin Laden publishes a fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Crusaders.

1909Russian Tsar Nicholas II dissolves Finnish Diet

1979George Harrison releases "George Harrison" album

200345th Grammy Awards: Don't Know Why, Norah Jones wins

1804Conspirators against Napoleon, for restoration of Louis XVIII

1685George Frideric Handel, Halle Germany, baroque composer and (Messiah, Water Music)

1994Dakota Fanning, American actress

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

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

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

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

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

1855Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies