births
February 23, 1892
Agnes Smedley, American journalist and writer (died 1950)
Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley was an American journalist, writer and activist who supported the Indian Independence Movement and the Chinese Communist Revolution. Raised in a poverty-stricken miner's family in Missouri and Colorado, she dramatized the formation of her feminist and socialist consciousness in the autobiographical novel Daughter of Earth (1929).
February 23
February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 311 days remain until the end of the year.