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What happened in history on this day: February 23?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On February 23 in ...
- 1994 - A US District Court rules that Microsoft violated patents held by Stac Electronics, in data compression used in Microsoft's DoubleSpace in DOS 6. Microsoft is ordered to remove or replace the technology, and pay US$120 million in damages. The court also finds that Stac illegally used access to Microsoft's trade secrets to make Stacker compatible with DOS 6.0. Microsoft is awarded US$13.6 million in damages.
- 2007 - A Federal jury in San Diego orders Microsoft pay US$1.5 billion to Alcatel-Lucent for patent infringement of MP3 audio compression technology.
- 2009 - 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment releases the film Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder on DVD in the United Kingdom.
- A character says in his speech "It seems only fit that I, Commodore 64 Zap Brannigan...".
- A robot (Calculon) thinks of his award acceptance speech: "I'd like to thank the Academy, my agent, and most of all my operating system, Windows Vista for everything..." and then malfunctions.
- 1935 - The Mickey Mouse film The Band Concert is released to theaters. Donald Duck also appears. This is the first Mickey Mouse film processed in Technicolor.
- 1939 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards an Oscar (Short Subjects, Cartoons) to Disney for the film Ferdinand the Bull.
- 1939 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards an Oscar (Special Award) to Walt Disney for screen innovation for the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Disney is presented one statuette and seven miniature statuettes.
- 1940 - RKO Radio Pictures releases the film Pinocchio to theaters.
- 1955 - The ABC TV network airs the Disneyland TV show, featuring the third "Davy Crockett" episode, Davy Crockett at the Alamo.
- 1959 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film White Wilderness for an Oscar Award in the category Documentary, Features.
- 1959 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film White Wilderness for an Oscar Award in the category Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.
- 1959 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Paul Bunyan for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons.
- 1959 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Grand Canyon for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Live-Action Subjects.
- 1959 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Ama Girls for an Oscar Award in the category Documentary, Short Subjects.
- 1964 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, featuring The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh, part three.
- 1969 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, featuring The Secret of Boyne Castle, part three.
- 1986 - The ABC TV network airs The Disney Sunday Movie, entitled The Girl Who Spelled Freedom.
- 1986 - The Guatemalan Weavers shop in Disneyland closes.
- 1990 - Buena Vista releases the Touchstone Pictures live-action feature film Where the Heart Is to theaters.
- 1995 - Guyana issues 23 postage stamps depicting various Disney characters at work.
- 1995 - The name of the Guest Quarters Suite Resort hotel at Lake Buena Vista at Walt Disney World changes to Doubletree Guest Suite Resort hotel.
- 1996 - Disney releases the Hollywood Pictures / Caravan Pictures film Before and After to theaters in the USA.
- 1999 - In Seattle, Washington, Disney holds its annual stockholder meeting.
- 2004 - At the Fantasyland Theatre in Disneyland, the show An Enchanting Musical opens.
- 2004 - The shareholder advisory service Glass, Lewis & Company hears presentations from Roy Disney, Stanley Gold, Michael Eisner, and many others.
- 2010 - Captain EO re-opens in Tomorrowland Theater in Disneyland.
- 1992 - In Miami, Florida, the Grand Prix of Miami is held. The opening round of the IMSA Bridgestone Potenza Supercar Series is held. Shawn Hendricks finishes second in a Bakeracing LT1 Corvette.
- 2003 - At the Streets of Downtown St. Petersburg circuit in St. Petersburg, Florida, the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg is held, round one of the Trans-Am Series for the BFGoodrich Tires Cup.
- Finishing 5th is the Revolution Motorsports #2 Corvette, driven by Stuart Hayner.
- Finishing 7th is the Revolution Motorsports #10 Corvette, driven by Bobby Sak.
- Finishing 13th is the Derhaag Motorsports #49 Corvette, driven by Randy Ruhlman.
- Finishing 15th is the Derhaag Motorsports #59 Corvette, driven by Simon Gregg.
- In 19th place, but not finishing the race, is the McNichols/Cenweld #23 Corvette, driven by Bob Ruman.
- 1942 - Japanese submarine I-9 launches a floatplane near Oahu, for reconnaissance of Pearl Harbor. It completes its mission undetected.
- 1942 - Submarine U-129 torpedoes and sinks Canadian merchant ship Lennox off British Guyana in the Caribbean. Two die.
- 1942 - Japanese submarine I-17 fires about 20 shells at an oil refinery at Ellwood near Santa Barbara, California, doing US$500 damage.
- 1943 - German Erwin Rommel is put in command of all Axis forces in Africa.
- 1944 - American forces complete the capture of Eniwetok Island.
- 1945 - (morning) The US 1st and 9th Armies begin crossing the Roer river in Germany.
- 1945 - American Marines capture Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima.
- 1945 - British Bomber Command makes an air raid on Essen, Germany, inflicting great damage.
- 1945 - The Turkish National Assembly declares war on Germany.
- 1945 - A German submarine torpedoes Canadian merchant ship Point Pleasant Park north-west of Capetown, South Africa.
- 1945 - (evening) 378 British bombers attack Pforzheim, in southern Germany. The resulting firestorm kills 17,000.
- 1946 - In Manila, Philippines, Japanese Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Yamashita is hanged as a war criminal. Also, Lieutenant Colonel Seichi Ohta, former head of Japanese Thought Police in Philippines, and Takuma Higashigi, Japanese civilian interpreter. All were convicted of torture and murder of Filipino civilians.
- 1946 - The USSR issues three postage stamps depicting the Moscow Victory Parade, June 1945.
- 1960 - The USSR issues a postage stamp depicting Lieutenant Timur Frunze, war hero.
- 1961 - The USSR issues a postage stamp depicting V.P. Miroshnitchenko, war hero.
- 1969 - The USSR issues two postage stamps honoring heroes of the war.
- 1974 - German Dr. Hans Gisevius dies in West Germany.
- 1983 - US immigration judge Gordon Sacks orders Feodor Fedorenko deported to the Soviet Union, his birthplace. Fedorenko had served as a guard in a Nazi death camp in Treblinka, Poland, between 1942 and 1945.
- 2011 - Greece issues a 60-cent postage stamp marking the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Crete.
- 1982 - The US Supreme Court announces it will not decide on the Mesquite versus Alladin's Castle case. The Federal Appeals Court must determine if the circumstances of the case are specific to the Texas constitution, in which case the US Supreme Court would have no jurisdiction.
- 2008 - Microsoft announces it will cease making HD DVD players for the Xbox 360.
- 2010 - Ubisoft releases Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction video game for the Xbox 360 in the USA.
- 2010 - Sony Computer Entertainment releases the Heavy Rain video game for the PlayStation 3 in the USA.
- 2017 - Square Enix releases the Nier: Automata video game for the PlayStation 4 in the USA.
- 2001 - Canadian Coinoisseur conducts a coin auction at the TOREX convention in Toronto, Ontario, over 2 days. An 1885 10c NGC MS-65 sells for $28,000. A 1921 50c ICCS VG-8 sells for $19,000.
- 1879 - New Orleans Mint resumes dollar coinage, after 18-year suspension.
- 1916 - US Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial $1 gold coin.
- 1965 - Frank Gasparro is sworn in as chief engraver of the US Mint.
- 1981 - US Mint Director Stella Hackel Sims submits resignation, effective April 1.
- 1874 - Major Walter Winfield patents game called "sphairistike" (lawn tennis).
- 1894 - Stanley Cup: Montréal AAAs awarded cup by trustees as Ottawa refuses to travel to Toronto to play.
- 1895 - Jaap Eden skates world record 10km (17:56).
- 1906 - Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart for heavyweight boxing championships in 20 rounds.
- 1934 - Casey Stengel becomes manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- 1938 - Joe Louis knocks out Nathan Mann in three rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
- 1939 - Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA to become wrestling champion.
- 1958 - Five-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels.
- 1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open.
- 1960 - Demolition begins on Brooklyn, New York's Ebbets Field (opened in 1913).
- 1964 - Charlie Finley signs a four-year lease to keep Athletics team in Kansas City.
- 1967 - Ted Workman replaces Senator Keith Davey as Canadian Football League commissioner.
- 1968 - Wilt Chamberlain becomes first NBA player to score 25,000 points.
- 1975 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic.
- 1976 - Major League Baseball owners announce spring training won't open without a labor contract.
- 1980 - Eric Heiden wins all five speed skating golds at Lake Placid Olympics.
- 1980 - XIII Olympic Winter Games close at Lake Placid, New York.
- 1983 - USFL New Jersey Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years - US$5 million).
- 1985 - Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight throws a chair during a game.
- 1986 - Despite losing his arbitration case, Boston Red Sox player Wade Boggs receives largest arbitration settlement (US$1.35 million).
- 1986 - Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA Standard Register/Samaritan Golf Classic.
- 1986 - Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 60 metre indoor (7.00 seconds).
- 1987 - Dick Howser retires from managing Kansas City Royals, due to brain tumor.
- 1988 - Chicago, Illinois gives Chicago Cubs the right to install lights and play up to 18 night games.
- 1988 - Yvonne van Gennip skates female record 3km (4:11.94).
- 1990 - Ian Smith 173 New Zealand versus India, 136 balls, world record for no 9 bat.
- 1991 - Greg Haugen scores a split decision over Hector "Macho" Camacho.
- 1991 - North Carolina is first NCAA basketball team to win 1,500 games.
- 1991 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open.
- 1992 - XVI Olympic Winter Games close in Albertville, France.
- 1992 - Andy Flower scores 115 on ODI debut, Zimbabwe versus Sri Lanka.
- 1993 - India complete a 3-0 series drubbing of England.
- 1993 - Sacramento Gold Miners admitted as Canadian Football League's 9th franchise (first US team).
- 1994 - Cleveland Indians owner Richard Jacobs announces he will pay US$10 million to name baseball field (Jacobs Field) at Gateway (becomes official March 23).
- 1996 - Mark Waugh scores 130 in World Cup versus Kenya, 207 with brother Steve.
- 1996 - Rajindra Dhanraj takes 9-97 for Trinidad against Leeward Islands.
- 1997 - Jeff Sluman wins Tucson Golf Classic.
- 2022 - At Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona, USA, NHL regular season game: Los Angeles Kings beats Arizona Coyotes by score 3-2.
- 2022 - At Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, NHL regular season game: Montreal Canadiens beats Buffalo Sabres by score 4-0.
- 2022 - At Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan, USA, NHL regular season game: Colorado Avalanche beats Detroit Red Wings by score 5-2.
- 2022 - At American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, USA, NHL regular season game: Dallas Stars beats Winnipeg Jets by score 3-2.
- 2022 - At Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida, USA, NHL regular season game: Tampa Bay Lightning beats Edmonton Oilers by score 5-3.
- 1987 - Supernova 1987A in LMC first seen; first naked-eye supernova since 1604.
- 1997 - A large fire occurs in the Russian space station Mir.
- 1998 - Tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42.
- 1778 - Baron von Steuben joins the Continental Army at Valley Forge.
- 1792 - Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated (erected life-saving stations for distressed mariners).
- 1813 - First US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham, Massachusetts.
- 1821 - College of Apothecaries organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; first US pharmacy college.
- 1847 - Battle of Buena Vista, México; American major general Zachary Taylor defeats Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna and Mexican army.
- 1861 - US President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington DC to take office.
- 1861 - By popular referendum, Texas becomes seventh state to secede from US.
- 1869 - Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law.
- 1870 - Mississippi State is re-admitted to USA.
- 1879 - New Orleans Mint resumes striking dollar coins after 18-year hiatus.
- 1883 - Alabama becomes first US state to enact an antitrust law.
- 1883 - American Anti-Vivisection Society organized (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
- 1887 - US Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco.
- 1892 - First college student government established, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
- 1900 - Steamer Rio de Janeiro sinks in San Francisco Bay, California.
- 1904 - Control of Panamá Canal Zone acquired by US for $10 million.
- 1905 - Rotary Club International established by four men in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- 1915 - Germany sinks US ships Carib and Evelyn and torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin.
- 1915 - Nevada enforces convenient divorce law.
- 1921 - First US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in New York City, New York from San Francisco, California.
- 1927 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill into law that created the Federal Radio Commission.
- 1936 - First rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake, New York, USA.
- 1939 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards an Oscar (Special Award) to Walt Disney for screen innovation for the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Disney is presented one statuette and seven miniature statuettes.
- 1940 - RKO Radio Pictures releases Walt Disney's animated film Pinocchio to theaters in the USA.
- 1942 - Japanese submarine fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, California, USA.
- 1945 - During the Battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines take the crest of Mount Suribachi, the island's highest peak and most strategic position, and raise the U.S. flag. Marine photographer Louis Lowery records the event. Several hours later, more Marines head up to the crest with a larger flag. Joe Rosenthal, a photographer with the Associated Press, records the raising of the second flag.
- 1947 - American General Dwight Eisenhower opens drive to raise US$170 million in aid for European Jews.
- 1954 - First mass inoculation with Salk vaccine (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).
- 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1965 - Frank Gasparro is sworn in as Chief Engraver of the US Mint.
- 1967 - American 25th amendment (Presidential succession) declared ratified.
- 1967 - US troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War.
- 1980 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
- 1983 - US immigration judge Gordon Sacks orders Feodor Fedorenko deported to the Soviet Union, his birthplace. Fedorenko had served as a guard in a German death camp in Treblinka, Poland, between 1942 and 1945.
- 1983 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intention to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
- 1985 - US Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as Attorney General.
- 1989 - After protracted testimony, the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee rejects, 11-9, President Bush's nomination of John Tower for Secretary of Defense.
- 1991 - The One Meridian Plaza fire kills three firefighters and destroys eight floors of the building.
- 1991 - US insists Iraq publicly announce it is leaving Kuwait by 12 PM EST.
- 1994 - A US District Court rules that Microsoft violated patents held by Stac Electronics, in data compression used in Microsoft's DoubleSpace in DOS 6. Microsoft is ordered to remove or replace the technology, and pay US$120 million in damages. The court also finds that Stac illegally used access to Microsoft's trade secrets to make Stacker compatible with DOS 6.0. Microsoft is awarded US$13.6 million in damages.
- 1995 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 30.28 to close at 4,003.33 - the Dow's first ever close above 4,000.
- 1997 - Ali Abu Kamal opens fire in Empire State Building and kills one.
- 1997 - NBC TV airs the film Schindler's List in the USA, completely uncensored, 65 million watch.
- 1998 - Tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42.
- 2009 - American Express offers US$300 to a limited number of U.S. card holders who pay off their balances and close their accounts.
- 2009 - The Standard & Poor's 500 Index post its lowest closes since the spring of 1997, dropping 26.71 points, or 3.47 percent, to 743.34.
- 2009 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average posts its lowest closes since the spring of 1997, dropping 250.73 points, or 3.40 percent, to 7,114.94.
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