February 22
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February 22
is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 312 days remaining until the end of the year (313 in leap years).
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[edit] Events
- 1295
BCE - 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.
- 1632 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
- 1744 - War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
- 1819 - By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
- 1847 - Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista - 5,000 American troops drive off 15,000 Mexican.
- 1853 - The Washington University is founded in St. Louis as Eliot Seminary.
- 1855 - The Pennsylvania State University is founded.
- 1856 - The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 1862 - Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
- 1876 - Johns Hopkins University is founded in Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1879 - In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores.
- 1882 - Serbian kingdom refounded.
- 1889 - President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
- 1904 - UK recognises the South Orkney Islands as part of Argentina, in 1908 claims them again.
- 1915 - World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
- 1920 - In Emeryville, New York, the first dog race track to employ an imitation rabbit opens.
- 1923 - The United States begins the first transcontinental air mail route.
- 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 D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defense collapses.
- 1943 - Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
- 1944 - American aircraft bombard the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer by mistake, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
- 1948 - Communist coup in Czechoslovakia
- 1958 - Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
- 1959 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
- 1969 - The last time all four Beatles were together for a recording session.
- 1973 - Cold War: Following United States President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
- 1974 - Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) summit conference starts in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries are attending. Twenty-two heads of state and government participate.
- 1974 - Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
- 1979 - Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
- 1980 - The United States ice hockey team defeats the Soviet Union team at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in an upset dubbed the "Miracle on Ice".
- 1986 - Start of the 1986 EDSA Revolution in the Philippines.
- 1994 - Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
- 1997 - In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
- 2002 - Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
- 2002 - A MH-47E Chinook helicopter crashes into the ocean near the Philippines, killing all 10 aboard.
- 2006 - At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery ever, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
- 2007 - Norwegian cross country skiers Jens Arne Svartedal and Astrid Jacobsen become the first ever gold medalists of an indoor and a nighttime nordic skiing event at a World Championship or Winter Olympic level by winning their respective men's and women's individual sprint finals in Sapporo, Japan.
[edit] Births
- 1040 - Rashi, French rabbi and commentator (d. 1105)
- 1403 - Charles VII of France (d. 1461)
- 1440 - Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (d. 1457)
- 1500 - Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (d. 1564)
- 1612 - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (d. 1677)
- 1705 - Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (d. 1735)
- 1714 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (d. 1795)
- 1732 - George Washington, First President of the United States (d. 1799)
- 1756 - Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (d. 1821)
- 1778 - Rembrandt Peale, American artist (d. 1860)
- 1788 - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (d. 1860)
- 1796 - Alexis Bachelot, French missionary (d. 1838)
- 1796 - Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1874)
- 1806 - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875)
- 1817 - Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)
- 1819 - James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (d. 1891)
- 1825 - Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1898)
- 1839 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)
- 1840 - August Bebel, German politician (d. 1913)
- 1849 - Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician (d. 1915)
- 1857 - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English founder of the Boy Scouts (d. 1941)
- 1857 - Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894)
- 1864 - Jules Renard, French author (d. 1910)
- 1874 - Bill Klem, Major League Baseball Hall of Fame umpire (d. 1951)
- 1878 - Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)
- 1879 - Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish physical chemist (d. 1947)
- 1880 - Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
- 1882 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (d. 1940)
- 1883 - Marguerite Clark, American silent film actress (d. 1940)
- 1886 - Hugo Ball, German author and poet (d. 1927)
- 1887 - Ksawery Tartakower, Polish chess player (d. 1956)
- 1888 - Owen Brewster, U.S. Senator from Maine (d. 1961)
- 1889 - Olave Baden-Powell, English Chief Girl Guide (d. 1977)
- 1891 - Vlas Chubar, Soviet politician (d. 1939)
- 1892 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, American writer (d. 1950)
- 1895 - Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician, founder of APRA party (d. 1979)
- 1897 - Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (d. 1947)
- 1899 - Dwight Frye, American actor (d. 1943)
- 1899 - George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966)
- 1899 - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)
- 1900 - Luis Buñuel, Spanish-born film director (d. 1983)
- 1900 - Seán Ó Faoláin, Irish author (d. 1991)
- 1902 - Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (d. 1980)
- 1903 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (d. 1990)
- 1903 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
- 1903 - Robert Weede, American baritone (d. 1972)
- 1907 - Sheldon Leonard, American actor (d. 1997)
- 1907 - Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1908 - Sir John Mills, English actor (d. 2005)
- 1911 - Bill Baker, baseball player (d. 2006)
- 1913 - George Holmes Tate, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (d. 2001)
- 1914 - Renato Dulbecco, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
- 1917 - Jane Bowles, American writer and playwright (d. 1973)
- 1918 - Sid Abel, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)
- 1918 - Charlie Finley, American sports entrepreneur (d. 1996)
- 1918 - Don Pardo, American radio and television announcer
- 1918 - Robert Wadlow, tallest person in history (d. 1940)
- 1921 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa, ruler of the Central African Republic (d. 1996)
- 1921 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
- 1921 - Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (d. 1994)
- 1922 - Jesús Iglesias, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
- 1925 - Edward Gorey, American illustrator (d. 2000)
- 1926 - Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)
- 1926 - Bud Yorkin, American film director
- 1928 - Paul Dooley, American actor
- 1928 - Bruce Forsyth, British entertainer
- 1928 - Clarence 13X, founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths (d. 1969)
- 1929 - James Hong, Chinese American actor
- 1929 - Rebecca Schull, American actress
- 1930 - Marni Nixon