Today in History - History - February 23rd

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

1979George Harrison releases "George Harrison" album

1959Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open

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

200042nd Grammy Awards: Smooth, Christina Aguilera wins

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

1855Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies