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Today in History: February 23

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Emperor Diocletian orders the general persecution of Christians in Rome.

1540
Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado begins his unsuccessful search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold in the American Southwest.

1836
The Alamo is besieged by Santa Anna.

1846
The Liberty Bell tolls for the last time, to mark George Washington's birthday.

1861
Texas becomes the seventh state to secede from the Union.

1885
John Lee survives three attempts to hang him in Exeter Prison, as the trap fails to open.

1921
An airmail plane sets a record of 33 hours and 20 minutes from San Francisco to New York.

1926
President Calvin Coolidge opposes a large air force, believing it would be a menace to world peace.

1942
A Japanese submarine shells an oil refinery near Santa Barbara, California, the first Axis bombs to hit American soil.

1945
U.S. Marines plant an American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima.

1954
Mass innoculation begins as Salk's polio vaccine is given to children for first time.

1960
Whites join Negro students in a sit-in at a Winston-Salem, N.C. Woolworth store.

1991
French forces unofficially start the Persian Gulf ground war by crossing the Saudi-Iraqi border.

Today in History: Born on February 23
1883
Victor Fleming, film director (The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind)

1924
Allan MacLeod Cormack, physicist, developed the CAT scan


JOTD
A man scores a hot date

Not wanting to disappoint his date in the bedroom, he goes to the doctor to get his penis enlarged. The doctor says, "we happen to have a new experimental procedure that uses muscle cells from an elephant trunk that should do the trick." To which the man accepts.

Later on, the man and his date are having dinner. The man is in love with her, but is experiencing an increasingly uncomfortable pressure in his trousers. In an attempt to relieve the pain, he slowly undoes his fly.

Immediately, his penis lunges out onto the table, grabs a bread roll and vanishes back under the table.

His date, unsurprisingly shocked, slowly smiles and says, "could you do that again?"

The man, his eyes watering slightly, replies "probably, but I don't think I can fit another roll in my arse."