February 23

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[edit] Events

• 1660 - Charles XI becomes King of Sweden.
• 1854 - The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared.
• 1919 - Benito Mussolini forms the National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista) in Italy.
• 1945 - World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is completely destroyed by a raid of 379 British bombers.
• 1992 - The Socialist Labour Party is founded in Georgia.
• 1998 - Osama bin Laden publishes a fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Crusaders.

[edit] Births

• 1583 - Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (d. 1656)
• 1915 - Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General and Pilot of B-29 "Enola Gay" over Hiroshima (d. 2007)
• 1918 - Pastor Richard Butler, founder of Aryan Nations (d. 2004)

[edit] Deaths

• 1848 - John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)
• 1930 - Horst Wessel, German composer (b. 1907)