FEBRUARY 23
1945:AP photographer Joe Rosenthal photographs U.S. Marines raising Old Glory on Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi. The picture wins a Pulitzer Prize.
1836: Col. William Travis orders his troops to withdraw into the Alamo after Mexican troops are spotted, starting the fatal 13-day siege.
1903: President Theodore Roosevelt approves a deal with Cuba to lease a naval station at Guantanamo Bay. The U.S. will continue sending checks to Cuba, though the communist government won’t cash them.
1954: Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine is used in Pittsburgh for the first mass inoculation of children against the disease.
1836: Col. William Travis orders his troops to withdraw into the Alamo after Mexican troops are spotted, starting the fatal 13-day siege.
1903: President Theodore Roosevelt approves a deal with Cuba to lease a naval station at Guantanamo Bay. The U.S. will continue sending checks to Cuba, though the communist government won’t cash them.
1954: Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine is used in Pittsburgh for the first mass inoculation of children against the disease.
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