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On this day 23rd February
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Born on this day
1685 George Frederick Handel 1734 Mayer Amchel Rothschild 1883 Victor Fleming 1937 Lt-Cdr Brian Mills 1939 Peter Fonda 1947 Anton Mosimann 1952 Brad Whitford 1955 Howard Jones Died on this day 1821 John Keats 1965 Stan Laurel 1976 L.S. Lowry Music 1962 Chubby Checker moved to the top spot with 'Let's Twist Again'. 1985 The Smiths topped the album charts with 'Meat Is Murder'. 1989 George Michael's 'Faith' was named best album of the year at the 31st Grammy awards. Sport 1983 The England football team beat Wales by 2 goals to 1 in their first home win over the Welsh for a decade. 1988 British skater Wilf O'Reillly won the gold medal for Britain in the 500m short track speed skating demonstration event att he Winter Olympics in Calgary. 1992 England beat the United States in the final of a team chess tournament in Cannes. People & Showbiz 1995 Oliver Stone's controversial film 'Natural Born Killers' was to be released after a 2 month delay. The British Board of Film Classification made a number of cuts to the film. General Events 1905 The Rotary Club was founded by Paul Harris in offices on Dearborn Street, Chicago. 1953 British World War II deserters were granted amnesty. 1956 The West Germany army outlawed the goose-step. 1988 The European Court of Justice overturned Britain's right to determine its own taxation policy and immediately ruled that VAT be added to a number of items presently free of it. |
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