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22 February is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar . There are 312 days remaining, 313 in Leap Year s.
Events
- 1295 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.
- 1632 - Galileo 's '' Dialogue Concerning The Two Chief World Systems '' is published.
- 1744 - The Battle Of Toulon begins.
- 1819 - By the Adams-Onís Treaty , Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. Dollars .
- - 5,000 American troops drive off 15,000 Mexican .
- 1855 - The Pennsylvania State University is founded.
- 1856 - The 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 Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota , South Dakota , Montana and Washington as U.S. State s.
- 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.
- 1924 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President Of The United States to deliver a Radio broadcast from the White House .
- 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.
- Richard Nixon 's Visit to China , the United States and the People's Republic Of China 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.
- 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 ".
- 1983 - Kamal Tiwari(the great chatter) was born
- 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 - A MH-47E Chinook Helicopter crashes into the ocean near the Philippines , killing all 10 aboard.
- 2005 - Blink-182 goes on indefinite hiatus.
- 2006 - Al Askari Mosque bombed.
- 2006 - Dushanbe Synagogue demolished.
- 2006 - At least six men stage Britain's Biggest Ever Robbery , stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge , Kent .
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 - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell , English founder of the Boy Scouts (d. 1941 ) (also of his wife - see 1889)
- 1857 - Heinrich Hertz , German physicist (d. 1894 )
- 1878 - Walter Ritz , Swiss physicist (d. 1909 )
- 1880 - Frigyes Riesz , Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956 )
- 1882 - Eric Gill , British sculptor and writer (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 )
- 1889 - Lady Olave Baden-Powell , English Chief Girl Guide (d. 1977 ) (also of her husband - see 1857)
- 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 )
- 1907 - Sheldon Leonard , American actor, writer, director, and producer (d. 1997 )
- 1907 - 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 )
- 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
- 1929 - Rebecca Schull , American actress
- 1930 - Marni Nixon , American singer
- 1932 - Ted Kennedy , U.S. senator from Massachusetts
- 1933 - Katharine , The Duchess of Kent
- 1934 - Sparky Anderson , American 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
- 1950 - Lenny Kuhr , Dutch singer and Eurovision Song Contest winner
- 1952 - Bill Frist , U.S. senator from Tennessee
- 1955 - Tim Young , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1959 - Kyle MacLachlan , American actor
- 1962 - Steve Irwin , Australian herpetologist and televison personality
- 1963 - Vijay Singh , Fijian golfer
- 1965 - Pat LaFontaine , American Ice Hockey player
- 1966 - Rachel Dratch , American actress and comedienne
- 1966 - Brian Greig , Australian politician
- 1966 - Aiden Shaw , British pornographic actor
- 1967 - Alf Poier , Austrian comedian
- 1968 - Bradley Nowell , American musician and singer for Sublime (d. 1996 )
- 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
- 1972 - Michael Chang , American tennis player
- 1974 - James Blunt , British musician
- 1974 - Chris Moyles , British DJ
- 1975 - Drew Barrymore , American actress
- 1979 - Brett Emerton , Australian footballer
- 1982 - Jenna Haze , American pornographic actress
- 1986 - Miko Hughes , American actor
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 , 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 )
- 1903 - Hugo Wolf , Austrian composer (b. 1860 )
- 1913 - Ferdinand De Saussure , Swiss linguist (b. 1857 )
- 1921 - Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah , Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864 )
- 1923 - Théophile Delcassé , French statesman (b. 1852 )
- 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 )
- 1974 - Samuel Byck , American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1939 )
- 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 , 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 Creach , 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 - Zdzisław Beksiński , Polish artist (b. 1929 )
- 2005 - Simone Simon , French actress (b. 1910 )
- 2005 - Lee Eun Ju , Korean actress (b. 1980 )
Holidays and observances
External links
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