HISTORY QUIZ OF THE DAY (Feb-23)

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Feb 23, 2004 :: VIJAY ANAND :: Died this day, he was an Indian . He was the brother of Bollywood superstar, .

Feb 23, 1998 :: OSAMA BIN Mohammad Bin Laden published on this day a against all Jews and Crusaders; the latter term is commonly referred to the people of .

Feb 23, 1997 :: CLONING :: Scientists in Scotland announced on this day that they had succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named " ".

Feb 23, 1990 :: JOSE NAPOLEON DUARTE :: Died this day, he was the of El Salvador.

Feb 23, 1983 :: AZIZ ANSARI :: Born this day, he is an comedian.

Feb 23, 1982 :: KARAN SINGH :: Born this day, he is an .

Feb 23, 1973 :: DICKINSON W. RICHARDS :: Died this day, he was an American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in (b. 1895).

Feb 23, 1969 :: BHAGYASHREE :: Born this day, she is an Indian .

Feb 23, 1947 :: The International (ISO) was founded on this day.

Feb 23, 1944 :: LEO HENDRIK BAEKELAND :: Died this day, he was a Flemish-American chemist and inventor of the first synthetic plastic, .

Feb 23, 1944 :: JOSEPH STALIN :: On this day, he forced about one million Chechens into exile and dissolved the republic accusing them of .

Feb 23, 1924 :: ALLAN McLEOD CORMACK :: Born this day, he was a born physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998).

Feb 23, 1908 :: William McMAHON :: Born this day, he was the 20th Prime Minister of (d. 1988).

Feb 23, 1908 :: PAUL TIBBETS :: Born this day, he was the US Air Force retired Brigadier General and pilot of B-29 "Enola Gay" over to drop the first ever atomic bomb.

Feb 23, 1855 :: Carl Friedrich GAUSS :: Died this day, he was a mathematician, astronomer, and physicist.

Feb 23, 1821 :: JOHN KEATS :: He was an , who died this day of tuberculosis in Rome at the young age of 25.

Feb 23, 1483 :: BABUR :: Born this day, he was the founder of in India.