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==Alexis Coletta was born on Tuesday, February 23, 1995 at 6:25 pm in Chambersburg, PA. It was a rainy day with the average temperature being 38.8 degrees. She weighed in at 5 pounds and was 18 inches long. ==


 = Events on February 23: = February 23, 1822 - Boston, Massachusetts was granted a charter to be incorporated as a city. This means that Boston officially became a city on this day. Boston is now the capital of Massachusetts and has 574,283 people residing there.


February 23, 1848 - John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, died. He was 80 years old at the time of death. He passed away in Washington, D.C., two days after he suffered a stroke.

February 23, 1861 - Abraham Lincoln avoided an assassination attempt being set up in Baltimore, Maryland. He was on a train going to Baltimore when his crew was notified about an assassination plot. They quickly had the train head to Washington, D.C. and avoided everything.

February 23, 1870 - Mississippi was readmitted to the United States by Congress. This event happened 9 years after Mississippi seceded to join the Confederacy. This was one of the 16 states being readmitted.

February 23, 1886 - Charles Martin Hall completed his invention of aluminum. He did this all in the woodshed being his family’s home in Oberlin. Charles has a goal to create aluminum since he was in high school.

February 23, 1887 - An earthquake struck the Mediterranean coast of southern France and northern Italy. It destroyed many villages and killed more than 2,000 people. At the time, many tourists were visiting to celebrate Mardi Gras, including the Prince of Wales.

February 23, 1896 - Leo Hirshfield first introduced the Tootsie Roll. He opened a small candy shop in New York City and sold each piece for just a penny. He named this candy after his five year old daughter, Clara, who was nicknamed “Tootsie.”

February 23, 1940 - The very popular animated Disney film, Pinocchio was released. This movie was directed by Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske. Pinocchio is about a wooden puppet who is promised to become a real boy if he proves himself worthy. media type="custom" key="4884321" align="center"

 

February 23, 1945 - A picture, taken by Joe Rosental, shows five U.S. Marines and a Navy Corpsman raising the American flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. This photograph became extremely popular and was later used to sculpt the USMC War Memorial. Three of the the six men pictured later died in battle.



February 23, 1954 - In Pittsburgh, PA, children attending Arsenal Elementary School received the very first injections of the polio vaccine. Polio is a disease that affects the spinal cord causing muscle weakness and paralysis. Dr. Jonas Salk developed this vaccine.

February 23, 1968 - A Philadelphia 76ers player, Wilt Chamberlain became the first professional basketball player to score more than 25,000 career points. He accomplished this in the old Philadelphia stadium. He played for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers, the Los Angeles Lakers, and the Harlem Globetrotters.

February 23, 1985 - The TV show, "Gimme a Break", was broadcasted live before a studio audience. This was the first TV show to be filmed live since the Golden Age in the 50s. This show aired on NBC.

February 23, 1987 - The first Supernova, since 1604, was seen. A supernova is an extremely luminous explosion that causes an outburst of radiation. This Supernova was discovered by Ian Shelton and Oscar Duhalde in Chile. February 23, 1997 - The first movie without commercial interruption was shown on TV. The film was Schindler’s List and was broadcasted on NBC. The sponsor of the movie, Ford Motor Company, showed one commercial before the film and one after. 

=Events in 1995: =


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 The DVD, also known as Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc, was invented in 1995. This disc stores videos and data storage. DVDs are the same dimension as a compacts disc, or CD, but they store more than six times as much data.

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<span style="color: #530b99; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> On February 23, 1995, the diesel engine was patented in Germany by Rudolf Diesel. This engine burns fuel oil instead of gasoline. It is used by trucks and heavy industrial machinery.

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<span style="color: #530b99; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> On January 20th, 1993, William Jefferson Clinton, also known as Bill, was elected as President of the United States. Al Gore was his running mate. This presidency lasted from 1993-2001.

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<span style="color: #530b99; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> The World Series in 1995 was between the Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians. The Braves had won all six games and took the final game to win the series. The score was 4-2.

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<span style="color: #530b99; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> Super Bowl XXIX was held on January 29, 1995. The teams playing were the NFC Champions San Francisco 49ers and the AFC Champions San Diego Chargers. The 49ers won with the scores of 49-26.

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