Portal:United States/Anniversaries/February/February 23

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|text=*1904 – The United States purchases control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million.

• 1905 – Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club (logo pictured), the world's first service club.
• 1927 – The Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
• 1954 – The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
• 1991 – Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the first Gulf War.

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