Today In History

Wed., Feb. 23, 2000

1945: During World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, where they raised the American flag.

1836: The siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texas.

1861: President-elect Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington to take office, an assassination plot having been foiled in Baltimore.

1870: Mississippi was readmitted to the Union.

1954: The first mass inoculation of children with the Salk polio vaccine began in Pittsburgh.

1997: Scientists in Scotland announced they had succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named “Dolly.”

1999: A jury in Jasper, Texas convicted white supremacist John William King of murder in the gruesome dragging death of a black man, James Byrd Jr.

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