Today in History - History - February 23rd

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

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

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

19541st mass inoculation with salk vaccine (Pittsburgh)

200042nd Grammy Awards: Smooth, Christina Aguilera wins

1919Fascist Party forms in Italy by Benito Mussolini

1927Pres Calvin Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FRC)

1804Conspirators against Napoleon, for restoration of Louis XVIII

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

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

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

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)

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

2003Actor Paul Rudd (33) weds publicist Julie Yaeger

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

1855Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies

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

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