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YEAR 2008
Saturday February 23
Death of the senior of Japan at the 113 years age
- - Tsuneyo Toyonaga had been born on May 21, 1894
- - the number of Japanese centenary will reach soon 28.000 people
- - to date, the senior of humanity is the étatsunienne Edna Parker residing at Shelbyville in Indiana - it was born on April 20, 1893 (114 years) -
YEAR 2007
Friday February 23
Pakistan carries out a shooting of test of a ballistic missile of long range to nuclear capacity
- - it is about a missile “Shaheen II”, of a range of 2,000 kilometers
- - the Pakistani authorities affirmed that the test had proceeded successfully
YEAR 2007
Friday February 23
Derailment of a train close to Lambrigg - 435 kilometers in the North-West of London the United Kingdom
- - making 1 died and 77 wounded - including 5 in a serious condition -
- - 120 people were on train
- - the train carried out the London connection in Galsgow in Scotland
- - 9 coaches ran off the line
YEAR 2006
Thursday February 23
Collapse of the roof of the market “Baumansky” of Moscow
- - 64 people died and 30 were wounded
- - caused by heavy snowfalls fallen on Moscow during the last days
YEAR 2006
Thursday February 23
Dismantling of a network of traffic of bodies in New York
- - 4 men were shown to have sold bodies taken illegally on corpses
- - 1000 skins would have been dismembered and their bodies would have been sold in Canada and the United States
- - the parts of the body taken would have been replaced by ends of PVC pipes which are used for domestic plumbing
- - the 4 marked ones deal with 122 charges, one of the defendants is an embalmer of Brooklyn
YEAR 2005
Wednesday February 23
The mortuary of New York announces that it gives up continuing search to try to identify 1161 people killed in the attacks of September 11, 2001 against the World Trade Center
- - the medico-legal lack of proof between pieces of bone and human fabrics found on the spot do not make it possible to establish concrete links with these people
- - 2749 people died following this attack
YEAR 2002
Saturday February 23
Removal of the Franco-Colombian “Ingrid Betancourt” with San Vincente del Caguan in Colombia
- - removed by FARCs - Armed forces Revolutionary of Colombia -
- - its campaign director Clara Rojas was also kidnapped
- - in rebellion since 1964, Farc wish to exchange 43 hostages - including three Americans and Ingrid Betancourt - against 500 their guerrillas imprisoned in Colombia
Ingrid Betancourt was released on July 2, 2008
- - in company of 14 other hostages
- - released by a héliportée operation of the Colombian army
YEAR 1998
February 23
Tornadoes strike the center of Florida in the United States
- - winds of more than 400 km hour
- - 38 victims
YEAR 1997
February 23
English researchers announce the birth of the Dolly ewe
- - born on July 5, 1996
- - clone in Scotland starting from a single cell taken on a ewe
- - reached pulmonary disorders incurable it was euthanasiée on February 14, 2003
- - Dolly will have lived 6 years whereas normally the ewes live 12 years
YEAR 1990
February 23
Death of Jose Napoleon Duarte at the 64 years age
- - first chair democratically elected of El Salvador
YEAR 1980
February 23
Ecological catastrophe in bay of Navarin in Greece
- - the Greek tanker “Irenes Serenade” lets escape 102,000 tons from crude
YEAR 1955
February 23
Death of Paul Claudel
- French diplomat and writer born on August 6, 1868 with Villeneuve-on-Fère in 1868
author of: - “Five great Odes”
- “The Hostage”
- “Advertisement made in Marie”
- “The satin shoe”
- French Academy
YEAR 1949
February 23
Birth of Marc Garneau
- - first Canadian astronaut
- - 1st voyage on October 5, 1984 on board Challenger
- - 2nd voyage on May 19, 1996
YEAR 1944
February 23
Stalin abolishes the autonomous Republic of Chetchnia
- - a million tchetchenes are exiled
YEAR 1939
February 23
11th handing-over of the Oscar
- presented to the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles
- Better film: You Can' T Take It with You
- Better realizer: Frank Capra for “You Can' T Take It with You”
- Better actor: Spencer Tracy for “Town Servant boys”
- Better actress: Davis white beet for “Jezebel”
- Better supporting actor: Walter Brennan for “Kentucky”
- Better supporting actor: Fay Bainter for “Jezebel”
- - Walt Disney gains a Oscar for its film “White snow and the seven dwarves”
YEAR 1933
February 23
YEAR 1836
February 23
5000 Mexicans besiege El Alamo
- - ordered by Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
- - El Alamo was kept by 145 Texans which will perish all on March 6
YEAR 1744
February 23
Birth of Meyer Amschel Rothschild
- - born in Germany
- - businessman and banker
- - death in 1812
YEAR 1685
February 23
Birth of Georg Friedrich Haendel (Händel) “Handel”
- - English German type-setter naturalized in 1726 born in Halle (Saxony)
- - it passed most of its life to London
author of: - “Israel in Egypt”
- “Judas Stiff”
- “the Messiah”
- death on April 14, 1759
YEAR 1574
February 23
Beginning of a fifth war of religion in France
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