diff --git a/Misc/HISTORY b/Misc/HISTORY
index 7857f6f..603b17a 100644
--- a/Misc/HISTORY
+++ b/Misc/HISTORY
@@ -23743,7 +23743,7 @@
 - Changed the checks made in Py_Initialize() and Py_Finalize().  It is
 now legal to call these more than once.  The first call to
 Py_Initialize() initializes, the first call to Py_Finalize()
-finalizes.  There's also a new API, Py_IsInitalized() which checks
+finalizes.  There's also a new API, Py_IsInitialized() which checks
 whether we are already initialized (in case you want to leave things
 as they were).