This Day In History: February 23

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1945

This Day in History Video: What Happened on February 23

The U.S. flag was raised at Iwo Jima on Mt. Suribachi, the Alamo siege began, Jonas Salk discovered the polio vaccine, and a sheep named Dolly was cloned at the Roslin Institute in This Day in History video. The date is February 23rd. Joe Rosenthal won a Pulitzer prize in Photography for his picture of the flag raising at Iwo Jima.

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