Video: 'The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show'
(Sunday, February 23, 1964, 8:00 p.m. EST) — The Beatles performed three songs for their third of three consecutive appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show variety television series on CBS. Continue reading The Beatles (on tape) perform (again) on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ 50 years ago this hour (Feb 23 1964)
Video: 'Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine: A Shot of Hope'
(Tuesday, February 23, 1954) — The first mass inoculation of schoolchildren against polio using the Salk vaccine began today in Pittsburgh as some 5,000 students were vaccinated.
Video: 'WW2: U.S. Marines Take Eniwetok (1944)'
(Wednesday, February 23, 1944; Part of World War II, Pacific War) — U.S. forces secured Eniwetok Atoll today from the Japanese, with 262 Americans killed in 7 days of fighting. The victory provided a forward base for the United States Navy for its later operations, including Allied attacks on the Mariana Islands to the northwest.
