TODAY IN HISTORY

FEB 23RD

1821-John Keats, English Romantic poet, died.

1836-Mexican general Santa Anna began the siege of the Alamo.

1896-The Tootsie Roll was introduced by Leo Hirshfield.

1942-The first Axis shelling of U.S. soil took place near Santa Barbara, Calif.

1945-U.S. Marines raised the American flag on Iwo Jima.

1997-Scottish scientists announced the successful cloning of a sheep, Dolly.