Today in History - History - February 23rd

1959Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open

1927Pres Calvin Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FRC)

19541st mass inoculation with salk vaccine (Pittsburgh)

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

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

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

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

1910George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance," premieres in London

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

1909Russian Tsar Nicholas II dissolves Finnish Diet

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)

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

2003Actor Paul Rudd (33) weds publicist Julie Yaeger

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

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

1855Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies

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