1 of 4 | On February 23, 1836, troopers underneath the command of Mexican President Basic Antonio López de Santa Anna started their assault on the Alamo Mission close to present-day San Antonio, Texas. Eleven days later, the Alamo’s small group of Texian (Texan) defenders had been defeated by the 1500-plus Mexican Military. File Picture by Invoice Greenblatt/UPI | License Picture

Feb. 23 (UPI) — On this date in historical past:

In 1836, troopers underneath the command of Mexican President Basic Antonio López de Santa Anna started their assault on the Alamo Mission close to present-day San Antonio, Texas. Eleven days later, the Alamo’s small group of Texian (Texan) defenders had been defeated by the 1500-plus Mexican Military.

In 1903, america was granted a lease “in perpetuity” on Guantanamo Bay by Cuban officers.

In 1942, a Japanese submarine surfaced off the coast of California and fired 25 shells at an oil refinery close to Santa Barbara.

In 1945, members of the fifth Division of the U.S. Marines planted a U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi on the strategically essential Pacific island of Iwo Jima close to the top of certainly one of World Warfare II’s bloodiest battles.

In 1954, Dr. Jonas Salk’s new polio vaccine was administered to a bunch of youngsters in Pittsburgh within the second stage of testing of his inactivated polio vaccine.. Tens of millions of youngsters would get the vaccine within the subsequent 12 months.

In 1981, right-wing troops in search of to topple Spain’s democracy seized Parliament and its 350 deputies in a blaze of gunfire. The tried army revolt was quelled when King Juan Carlos known as for calm and loyalty.

In 1982, Canada, Japan and the Widespread Market nations of Europe joined america in financial and diplomatic sanctions towards Poland and the Soviet Union to protest imposition of martial legislation in Poland.

In 1991, army forces in Thailand overthrew the elected authorities and imposed martial legislation.

In 1994, Bosnia’s warring Croats and Muslims signed a cease-fire. The Croats agreed to tug again from the Muslim metropolis of Mostar, which had been underneath siege.

In 1999, a jury in Jasper, Texas, convicted self-described white supremacist John King within the June 1998 killing of a Black man who’d been dragged to his demise behind a pickup truck. Two days later, King was sentenced to demise.

In 2006, the snow-covered roof of a Moscow vegetable market collapsed, killing a minimum of 60 folks and injuring greater than two dozen others.

In 2013, Iran’s atomic vitality company introduced plans to construct 16 nuclear energy vegetation all through the nation. The announcement got here days earlier than Iran was to renew talks on its internationally disputed nuclear program.

In 2020, Chinese language President Xi Jinping declared the coronavirus epidemic the best public well being emergency since 1949. In the meantime, Italy grew to become the epicenter of the primary COVID-19 outbreak in Europe, with 132 circumstances.

In 2023, disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to an extra 16 years behind bars in California after being convicted of three counts of rape and sexual assault. He was already serving a 23-year jail sentence that was handed down after one other rape trial in New York.