• Birthday :birthday: :blue_heart:

Hello lovelies :D :blue_heart: ,Welcome to my blog!

Today's blog is about #BirthdayTopic & the events that happened on my bday (February 23th)!

Hope you enjoy this blog ^~^

>> important historical events ! 🗞

• 303 Roman Emperor Diocletianbegins his policy of persecuting Christians, razing the church at Nicomedia

•1455 Johannes Gutenbergprints his first Bible (estimated date)

•1540 Francisco Vázquez de Coronado's expedition sets off from Mexico in search of the 7 cities of Cibola

•1836 Alamo besieged for 13 days until March 6 by Mexican army under General Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed

•1904 United States acquires control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million

•1945 US Marines raise American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Photo of which by Joe Rosenthall later became iconic, inspiring the Marine Corps War Memorial sculpture

•1954 1st mass inoculation against Polio with the Jonas Salkvaccine takes place at Arsenal Elementary School in Pittsburgh

•1998 Osama bin Ladenpublishes a fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Crusaders

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>> Film & TV / Music 🎞 :musical_score:

• 1996 "Trainspotting" directed by Danny Boyle based on the book by Irvine Welsh, starring Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle and Jonny Lee Miller opens in cinemas in the UK and Ireland

• 963 Luciano Pavarotti makes his debut at the Vienna State Opera in "La traviata"

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>> sport 🥇

• 968 Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBAer to score 25,000 points

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>> famous b-days :cake:

• Samuel Peyps,George Fideric Handel,Victor Fleming,Dakota Fanning

& that's all :) this was quite an interesting post to make!I learned about a lot of new information through this challenge.

>> special thanks to the person who started up this challenge.

#important