Today in History - History - February 23rd

1991Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open

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

1979George Harrison releases "George Harrison" album

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

193911th Academy Awards - "You Can't Take It With You," Spencer Tracy & Bette Davis wins

1959Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open

1979"The Deer Hunter", starring Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken, is released

1927Pres Calvin Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FRC)

1909Russian Tsar Nicholas II dissolves Finnish Diet

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

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

1994Dakota Fanning, American actress

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)

2003Actor Paul Rudd (33) weds publicist Julie Yaeger

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

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

1855Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies

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

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