February 22

Events

1290s BC - The coronation of Ramses II, on whose face the sun's rays fall each year in Abu Simbel temple.

AD 1281 - Pope Martin IV|Martin IV becomes Pope.

1288 - Pope Nicholas IV|Nicholas IV becomes Pope.

1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.

1632 - Galileo Galilei|Galileo's ''Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems'' is published.

1744 - The Battle of Toulon, 1744|Battle of Toulon begins.

1819 - By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells History of Florida|Florida to the United States for five million United States dollar|U.S. dollars.

1847 - Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista - 5,000 United States|American troops drive off 15,000 Mexico|Mexican.

1855 - The Pennsylvania State University is founded.

1856 - The United States Republican Party|Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1865 - Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery.

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.

1889 - President of the United States|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 - Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.

1920 - In Emeryville, California, the first dog race track to employ an imitation rabbit opens.

1923 - The United States begins the first transcontinental air mail route.

1923 - Barcelona (Catalonia): Albert Einstein visits the city, invited by the scientist Esteban Terradas i Illa, as part of the monografics course of High Studies and Exchange organized by the Mancomunitat de Catalunya and conducted by Rafael de Campalans.

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 of the United States|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.

1948 - Start of the Czechoslovak Revolution.

1949 - Grady the Cow, a 1,200-pound cow gets stuck inside a silo on a farm in Yukon, Oklahoma and garners national media attention.

1956 - Elvis Presley enters the music charts for the first time, with "Heartbreak Hotel".

1958 - Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.

1959 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.

1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin wins a United States thoroughbred horse race making history as the first woman to do so.

1973 - Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's Nixon visit to China 1972|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 at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games 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.

1997 - In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly the sheep|Dolly had been successfully cloning|cloned.

2002 - A MH-47E Chinook helicopter crashes into the ocean near the Philippines, killing all 10 aboard.

Births

1040 - Rashi, French rabbi and commentator (d. 1105)

1403 - King Charles VII of France (d. 1461)

1440 - King 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 (N.S.) - George Washington, first President of the United States (d. 1799)

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)

1817 - Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)

1819 - James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (d. 1891)

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 - Lord Robert Baden-Powell, English founder of the Boy Scouts (d. 1941)

1857 - Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894)

1878 - Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)

1880 - Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)

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)

1889 - Lady Olave Baden-Powell, English Chief Girl Guide (d. 1977)

1892 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, American writer (d. 1950)

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)

1902 - Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (d. 1980)

1903 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (d. 1990)

1903 - Frank Plumpton Ramsey, English mathematician (d. 1903)

1907 - Sheldon Leonard, American actor, writer, director, and producer (d. 1997)

1907 - Robert Young (actor)|Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)

1908 - Sir John Mills, English actor (d. 2005)

1914 - Renato Dulbecco, Italian-born virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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)

1922 - Steven Hill, American actor

1925 - Edward Gorey, American illustrator (d. 2000)

1926 - Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)

1926 - Bud Yorkin, American film director

1927 - Guy Mitchell, American singer

1928 - Paul Dooley, American actor

1928 - Bruce Forsyth, British entertainer

1929 - Rebecca Schull, American actress

1930 - Marni Nixon, American singer

1932 - Ted Kennedy, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts

1934 - Sparky Anderson, baseball manager

1936 - J. Michael Bishop, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1938 - Ishmael Reed, American writer

1941 - Hipólito Mejía, President of the Dominican Republic

1944 - Jonathan Demme, American director

1944 - Robert Kardashian, American lawyer

1944 - Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player

1945 - Leslie Charleson, American actress

1949 - Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver

1949 - Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player

1950 - Julius Erving, American basketball player

1950 - Ellen Greene, American actress

1950 - Miou-Miou, French actress

1950 - Julie Walters, English actress

1952 - Bill Frist, American politician

1959 - Kyle MacLachlan, American actor

1962 - Steve Irwin, Australian herpetologist and televison personality

1963 - Vijay Singh, Fiji golfer

1966 - Rachel Dratch, American actress and comedienne

1966 - Brian Greig, Australian politician

1967 - Alf Poier, Austrian comedian

1968 - Jeri Ryan, American actress

1969 - Byron Stroud, American bassist (Fear Factory)

1971 - Lea Salonga, Filipina actress and singer

1972 - Claudia Pechstein, German speed skater

1975 - Drew Barrymore, American actress

1979 - Brett Emerton, Australian footballer

1982 - Jenna Haze, American actress

Deaths

965 - Odo, Duke of Burgundy

1071 - Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (killed in battle)

1111 - Roger Borsa, King of Sicily

1371 - King David II of Scotland (b. 1324)

1512 - Amerigo Vespucci (explorer)|Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and explorer (b. 1454)

1627 - Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (b. 1558)

1674 - Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)

1680 - Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress

1690 - Charles Le Brun, French artist (b. 1619)

1727 - Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer (b. 1661)

1731 - Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1638)

1732 - Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663)

1742 - Charles Rivington, English publisher (b. 1688)

1797 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)

1816 - Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1723)

1875 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (b. 1796)

1875 - Sir Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist (b. 1797)

1890 - John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (b. 1822)

1890 - Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (b. 1834)

1892 - Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (b. 1828)

1901 - George Francis FitzGerald, Irish mathematician (b. 1851)

1903 - Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)

1939 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1875)

1943 - Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1918)

1943 - Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1921)

1945 - Osip Brik, Russian writer (d. 1888)

1961 - Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b. 1889)

1965 - Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1882)

1968 - Peter Arno, American cartoonist (b. 1904)

1976 - Angela Baddeley, English actress (b. 1904)

1976 - Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (b. 1943)

1980 - Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist (b. 1886)

1983 - Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)

1984 - Jessamyn West (writer)|Jessamyn West, American writer (b. 1902)

1985 - Alexander Scourby, American actor (b. 1913)

1985 - Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (b. 1889)

1987 - Andy Warhol, American artist, director, and writer (b. 1928)

1994 - Papa John Creech, American musician

1995 - Ed Flanders, American actor (b. 1934)

1997 - Joseph Aiuppa, American gangster (b. 1907)

1998 - Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)

2000 - Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (b. 1946)

2002 - Chuck Jones, American animator (b. 1912)

2002 - Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel leader (b. 1934)

2004 - Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)

2004 - Andy Seminick, baseball player (b. 1920)

2005 - Zdzislaw Beksinski|Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish artist (b. 1929)

2005 - Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)

Holidays and observances

Roman Catholic Church - Cathedra Petri|Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter

United States - Washington's Birthday (traditionally)

Saint Lucia - independence (1979)

External links

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/22

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