On this day …
February 23, 2015
- In 1836, the Battle of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texas.
- In 1896, the Tootsie Roll was invented.
- In 1903, Cuba leased Guantanamo Bay to the United States “in perpetuity.”
- In 1941, plutonium was first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
- In 1954, the first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh.
- In 1991, ground troops crossed the Saudi Arabian border and entered Iraq, beginning the ground phase of the First Gulf War.
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