As we speak is Sunday, Feb. 23, the 54th day of 2025. There are 311 days left within the yr.
As we speak in historical past:
On Feb. 23, 1945, throughout World Struggle II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, the place they raised two American flags. (The second flag-raising was captured in an iconic {photograph} by Joe Rosenthal of The Related Press.)
Additionally on this date:
In 1836, the siege of the Alamo by Mexican troops started in San Antonio, Texas.
In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt signed an settlement with Cuba to lease the realm round Guantanamo Bay to the USA.
In 1942, the primary shelling of the U.S. mainland throughout World Struggle II occurred as a Japanese submarine fired on an oil refinery close to Santa Barbara, California.
In 1980, American Eric Heiden accomplished his sweep of the 5 males’s velocity skating occasions on the Winter Olympic Video games in Lake Placid, New York, by profitable the lads’s 10,000-meter race in world report time; Heiden was the primary athlete to win 5 gold medals in a single Winter Olympics.
In 2011, in a serious coverage reversal, the Obama administration stated it might now not defend the constitutionality of the Protection of Marriage Act, a federal legislation banning recognition of same-sex marriage.
In 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was fatally shot on a residential Georgia avenue; a white father and son had armed themselves and pursued him after seeing him working via their neighborhood. (Greg and Travis McMichael and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan had been convicted of homicide, aggravated assault and different fees and had been sentenced to life in jail.)
In 2021, golfer Tiger Woods was critically injured when his SUV crashed right into a median and rolled over a number of occasions on a steep highway in suburban Los Angeles.
In 2023, a federal decide handed singer R. Kelly a 20-year jail sentence for his convictions that embrace producing baby sexual abuse supplies and federal intercourse trafficking fees., however stated he would serve almost all the sentence concurrently with a 30-year sentence imposed a yr earlier on racketeering fees.
As we speak’s birthdays:
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Fred Biletnikoff is 82.
- Actor Patricia Richardson is 74.
- Singer Howard Jones is 70.
- Japanese Emperor Naruhito is 65.
- Actor Kristin Davis is 60.
- Enterprise government Michael Dell is 60.
- TV personality-business government Daymond John is 56.
- Actor Niecy Nash is 55.
- Democratic Sen. Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland is 54.
- Nation singer Steve Holy is 53.
- Actor Kelly Macdonald is 49.
- Rapper Residente, born René Juan Pérez Joglar, is 47.
- Actor Josh Gad is 44.
- Actor Emily Blunt is 42.
- Actor Aziz Ansari is 42.
- Actor Dakota Fanning is 31.
