February 23 - Matching

Matching

Matching sweaters, made by Mommy

This Day In History

1455

Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.

1778

Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army.

1896

The Tootsie Roll is invented.

1927

German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.

1954

The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.

1987

Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Famous Birthdays

1633

Samuel Pepys, English naval administrator and man of letters, posthumously famous as a diarist (d. 1703)

1685

George Frideric Handel, German/British Baroque composer (d. 1759)

1744

Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker (d. 1812)

1868

W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights leader (d. 1963)

1932

Majel Barrett, American actress (d. 2008)

1944

Bernard Cornwell, English historical novelist
John Sandford, American novelist

1955

Howard Jones, British pop singer

1965

Michael Dell, American computer manufacturer