Right now is Monday, Feb. 23, the 54th day of 2026. There are 311 days left within the yr.
Right now in historical past:
On Feb. 23, 1980, American Eric Heiden accomplished his sweep of the 5 males’s pace skating occasions on the Winter Olympic Video games in Lake Placid, New York, by profitable the lads’s 10,000-meter race in world file time; Heiden was the primary athlete to win 5 gold medals in a single Winter Olympics.
Additionally on this date:
In 1836, the siege of the Alamo by Mexican troops started in San Antonio, Texas. Virtually all the almost 200 closely outnumbered Texas defenders, together with American frontiersman and politician Davy Crockett, had been killed within the 13-day assault.
In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt signed an settlement with Cuba to lease land round Guantanamo Bay to the US. No date was set for termination of the lease and Naval Station Guantanamo Bay continues on the web site, together with a high-security detention complicated for suspected terrorists.
In 1942, the primary shelling of the U.S. mainland throughout World Battle II occurred as a Japanese submarine fired on an oil refinery close to Santa Barbara, California.
In 1945, throughout World Battle II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, the place they raised two American flags. (The second flag-raising was captured in an iconic {photograph} by Joe Rosenthal of The Related Press.)
In 2011, in a serious coverage reversal, President Barack Obama’s administration stated it will not defend the constitutionality of the Protection of Marriage Act, a federal regulation banning recognition of same-sex marriage.
In 2020, a 25-year-old Black man, Ahmaud Arbery, was fatally shot whereas operating in a coastal Georgia neighborhood after a white father and son armed themselves and pursued him. (Greg and Travis McMichael and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan subsequently drew life sentences for homicide convictions and later had been convicted of federal hate crimes.)
In 2021, golfer Tiger Woods was significantly injured when he crashed his SUV right into a median and rolled over a number of instances on a steep downhill street in suburban Los Angeles.
In 2023, a federal choose handed singer R. Kelly a 20-year jail sentence for his convictions that embrace producing youngster sexual abuse supplies and federal intercourse trafficking expenses., however stated he would serve almost all the sentence concurrently with a 30-year sentence imposed a yr earlier on racketeering expenses.
Right now’s birthdays:
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Fred Biletnikoff is 83.
- Actor Patricia Richardson is 75.
- Singer Howard Jones is 71.
- Japanese Emperor Naruhito is 66.
- Actor Kristin Davis is 61.
- Enterprise govt Michael Dell is 61.
- TV personality-business govt Daymond John is 57.
- Actor Niecy Nash is 56.
- Democratic Sen. Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland is 55.
- Nation singer Steve Holy is 54.
- Actor Kelly Macdonald is 50.
- Rapper Residente, born René Juan Pérez Joglar, is 48.
- Actor Josh Gad is 45.
- Actor Emily Blunt is 43.
- Actor Aziz Ansari is 43.
- Actor Dakota Fanning is 32.
- Star guard Jamal Murray of the NBA’s Denver Nuggets is 29.
- Actor Emilia Jones is 24.