Video: 'THE ALAMO: THE REAL STORY (WILD WEST HISTORY DOCUMENTARY)' (Feb. 23, 1836, at 40:56)
(Tuesday, February 23, 1836, at approximately 2:30 p.m. local time; during the Battle of the Alamo, part of the Texas Revolution) — A Mexican force numbering in the thousands and led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna today began a siege of the Alamo, a former Franciscan mission located near the present-day city of San Antonio.
Video: 'Trainspotting' trailer
(Friday, February 23, 1996) — Trainspotting, a British black comedy crime drama film that follows a group of heroin addicts in a late 1980s economically depressed area of Edinburgh, Scotland, and their passage through life, opened today in Britain and Ireland.
Directed by Danny Boyle, the film starred Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle and Kelly Macdonald.
