February 23

On This Day In History
	1836: Alamo besieged by Santa Anna's Mexican army This day in 1836, during the Texas war for independence, Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna began a siege of the Alamo, which was captured after 13 days and which became for Texans a symbol of heroic resistance.
The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas
Biography Of The Day
	W.E.B. Du Bois Born this day in 1868, W.E.B. Du Bois was the most important African American protest leader during the first half of the 20th century, helping to create the NAACP in 1909 and editing The Crisis, its magazine, for 24 years.
W.E.B. Du Bois
More Events On This Day In History
	1945 Six U.S. servicemen raised the American flag over Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima during World War II.
1945	1905 The first Rotary Club was founded by Chicago attorney Paul P. Harris.
	1870 Mississippi was readmitted to the United States following the American Civil War.
1822	1822 Boston was granted a charter to become a city.
	1685 English composer George Frideric Handel, a leading figure of late Baroque music, was born.