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February 22 is the 53rd day of every year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 312 days remaining, 313 in leap years.
Events
- 1290s BC - The coronation of Ramses
II, on whose face the sun's rays fall each year in Abu Simbel temple.
- 1281 - Martin IV becomes
Pope.
- 1288 - Nicholas IV
becomes Pope.
- 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's
throne.
- 1630 - Native American
Quadequine introduces Popcorn to English colonists at their first
Thanksgiving dinner.
- 1632 - Galileo's
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
- 1819 - Spain cedes Florida to the United States.
- 1847 - Mexican-American War: The Battle
of Buena Vista - 5,000 American troops under General Zachary Taylor use their superiority in artillery to drive off 15,000 Mexican troops under Antonio López de Santa Anna.
- 1865 - Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery.
- 1876 - Johns
Hopkins University founded in Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1879 - In Utica, New
York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent
Woolworth stores.
- 1889 - President Grover Cleveland
signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
- 1920 - In Emeryville, California, the first dog race track to employ an imitation rabbit opens.
- 1924 - Calvin Coolidge
becomes the first President of the United
States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
- 1942 - World War II: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defense of the nation collapses.
- 1943 - Members of White Rose are
executed in Nazi Germany.
- 1956 - Elvis Presley enters the
music charts for the first time, with "Heartbreak Hotel".
- 1959 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
- 1967 - Suharto takes power from Sukarno in Indonesia.
- 1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin wins a United States
thoroughbred horse race making history as the first women to do so.
- 1973 - Cold War: Following President
Richard Nixon's visit to China,
the United States and the People's Republic of China agree to establish liaison offices.
- 1979 - Independence of Saint Lucia
from the United Kingdom.
- 1980 - The United States
ice hockey team defeats the Soviet Union team, 4-3, at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York, in an upset dubbed the "Miracle on Ice".
- 1994 - Aldrich Ames and his wife
are charged by the United States
Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union. Ames would
later be convicted to life imprisonment and his wife would receive five years in prison.
- 1997 - In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned and was born in July 1996.
- 2002 - A MH-47E Chinook helicopter crashes into the ocean
near the Philippines killing all 10 aboard.
Births
- 1732 - George
Washington, first President of the
United States (d. 1799) (Note: February 11 in the Julian Calendar that was then still in use)
- 1778 - Rembrandt Peale,
artist
- 1788 - Arthur
Schopenhauer, philosopher (d. 1860)
- 1796 - Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, mathematician (d. 1874)
- 1810 - Frédéric Chopin,
Polish composer (d. 1849)
- 1817 - Carl
Wilhelm Borchardt, mathematician
- 1819 - James Russell
Lowell, poet and essayist (d. 1891)
- 1839 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)
- 1840 - August Bebel, politician
(d. 1913)
- 1849 - Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician (d 1915)
- 1857 - Lord Robert
Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouting movement (d. 1941)
- 1857 - Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894)
- 1878 - Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)
- 1880 - Frigyes Riesz, mathematician
- 1889 - Lady Olave
Baden-Powell GBE (nee Soames) Chief Girl Guide (d. 1977)
- 1892 - Edna St.
Vincent Millay, writer (d. 1950)
- 1900 - Luis Buñuel, film director
(d. 1983)
- 1903 - Morley Callaghan,
Canadian writer (d. 1990)
- 1903 - Frank Plumpton Ramsey, mathematician (d.
1903)
- 1907 - Sheldon Leonard, actor, writer, director, producer
- 1907 - Robert Young, actor (d. 1998)
- 1908 - John Mills, actor
- 1926 - Kenneth Williams,
actor (d. 1988)
- 1932 - Edward Kennedy,
politician and brother of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy
- 1934 - Sparky Anderson,
Baseball Hall of Fame manager
- 1944 - Jonathan Demme,
director, Robert Kardashian, Lawyer for O. J. Simpson
- 1949 - Niki Lauda, Formula One driver
- 1950 - Julius Erving, Basketball Hall of Famer
- 1950 - Miou-Miou, actress
- 1950 - Julie Walters, actress
- 1959 - Kyle MacLachlan,
actor
- 1962 - Steve Irwin, Australian
herpetologist and TV personality (The Crocodile
Hunter)
- 1963 - Vijay Singh, golfer
- 1966 - Brian Andrew Greig, statesman
- 1968 - Jeri Ryan, actress (Star Trek: Voyager, Boston Public)
- 1975 - Drew Barrymore,
actress
Deaths
- 965 - Odo of Paris, Duke of Burgundy
- 1512 - Amerigo Vespucci, explorer (b. 1454)
- 1875 - Sir Charles Lyell,
geologist (b. 1797)
- 1901 - George Francis FitzGerald, mathematician
- 1903 - Hugo Wolf, composer (b. 1860)
- 1943 - Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl, founders of the German resistance group White Rose
- 1961 - Nick LaRocca, jazz musician (b. 1889)
- 1965 - Felix
Frankfurter, justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1882)
- 1968 - Peter Arno, cartoonist
- 1976 - Florence Ballard,
singer with The Supremes (b. 1943)
- 1984 - Jessamyn West, writer (b. 1902)
- 1987 - Andy Warhol, artist,
director, writer (b. 1928)
- 1994 - Papa John Creach, musician
- 2000 - Fernando Buesa, Basque
politician (b. 1946)
- 2002 - Chuck Jones, animator (b.
1912)
- 2002 - Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel leader (b. 1934)
- 2003 - Kurt Gscheidle, politician
Holidays and observances
February 21 - February
23 - January 22 - March 22 --
listing of all days
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