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Today in History ~ February 22
Events0896 - Pope Formosa crowned king Arnulf of Karinthie/French emperor
1349 - Jews are expelled from Zurich, Switzerland
1630 - Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving
1656 - New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site
1744 - Battle at Toulon: English, French & Spanish fleets
1774 - English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright
1775 - Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw, Poland
1784 - 1st US ship to trade with China, "Empress of China," sails from NY
1819 - Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida (Adams-Onis Treaty). Spanish minister Do Luis de Onis and U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams sign the Florida Purchase Treaty, in which Spain agrees to cede the remainder of its old province of Florida.
1821 - Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million
1825 - Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary
1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave Valdivia, Chile
1847 - Battle of Buena Vista: US troops beat Mexican army Mexican-American War. [H]
1858 - Dion Boucicault's "Jessie Brown," premieres in NYC
1860 - Shoe-making workers of Lynn, Mass, strike successfully for highter wages
1861 - On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration
1862 - Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as the regular president of the Confederate States of America.
1864 - -27] Battle at Dalton Georgia
1864 - 2nd/last day of Battle of Okolona, MS
1865 - Battle of Wilmington, NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals
1865 - Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery
1879 - 1st 5 & 10 cent store opened by Frank W Woolworth (Utica, NY) [H]
1888 - John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers, NY)
1889 - President Cleveland signed a bill to admit the Dakotas, Montana and Washington state to the Union.
1892 - "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde premieres at St James (London)
1898 - Black postmaster lynched, his wife and 3 daughters shot in Lake City, SC
1900 - Hawaii became a US territory
1903 - Due to drought, the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water
1907 - 1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London
1909 - Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Va
1915 - Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine warfare
1918 - Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia
1920 - 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville Calif)
1922 - Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin
1923 - 1st successful chinchilla farm in US (LA Calif)
1923 - Transcontinental airmail service begins
1924 - 1st presidential radio address (Calvin Coolidge)
1927 - Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum in Amsterdam
1932 - Purple Heart award reinstituted
1933 - Nazi Herman Goring forms SA/SS-police, shoots 40-50
1934 - "It Happened One Night," opens at NY's Radio City Music Hall
1935 - Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
1940 - German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578
1941 - Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal
1941 - IG Farben starts building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1948 - Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die
1956 - Elvis Presley's 1st hit in Billboard's top 10: "Heartbreak Hotel"
1967 - Barbara Garson's "MacBird," premieres in NYC
1967 - 25,000 US & S Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border
1972 - President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing
1973 - US & China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing & Wash DC
1980 - Afghanistan declares martial law
1980 - The U.S. Olympic hockey team upset the Soviets at Lake Placid, N.Y., 4-to-3. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.) [H]
1982 - NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for NY governor (unsuccessful)
1983 - Harold Washington wins Chicago's Democratic mayoral primary
1983 - Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India
1987 - The United States, Japan, West Germany, Britain, France and Canada agreed to cooperate to stem the decline of dollar.
1989 - Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress
1989 - UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"
1989 - US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals"
1991 - President George Bush & US Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hrs to begin withdrawing from Kuwait, or face a final all-out attack. Iraq denounced the "shameful" U.S. ultimatum, aligning itself with a Soviet peace plan the United States had rejected.
1991 - Iraq began setting fire to dozens of oil facilities in occupied Kuwait.
1992 - President Bush renewed his attack on a Democratic tax plan, saying in a radio address that congressional Democrats were choosing "politics over duty."
1992 - At the Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, American speedskater Cathy Turner won the women's 500-meter race.
1993 - The U.N. Security Council voted to form an international war crimes tribunal to try those accused of such offenses during the ethnic fighting in the former Yugoslavia.
1993 - CBS announced that David Letterman would remain in New York and broadcast from the old Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway.
1995 - At a news conference, British Prime Minister John Major and his Irish counterpart, John Bruton, unveiled a plan they hoped would bring peace to Northern Ireland.
1995 - Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters
1995 - Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km)
1996 - 1996 - The space shuttle Columbia blasted into orbit on a mission to unreel a satellite on the end of a 12.8 mile cord.
1996 - President Clinton announced he would nominate Alan Greenspan to a third term as chairman of the Federal Reserve.
1996 - Russia and the head of the International Monetary Fund reached a deal for a loan of more than $10 billion dollars to back up free-market reforms.
1997 - Cutbacks began under new welfare law limiting childless adults, under age 50 and able to work, to three months of food stamps in any three-year period.
1998 - Iraq averted U.S. military intervention when it agreed to allow UN weapons inspectors to resume their work.
1998 - Revival of "King & I," closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 781 performances
2001 - President Bush held his first full-fledged presidential news conference, in which he defended his tax-cutting and budget-tightening plans and gave FBI director Louis Freeh a vote of confidence following the arrest of veteran agent Robert Hanssen on spying charges.
2001 - A U.N. war crimes tribunal convicted three Bosnian Serbs standing trial on charges of rape and torture in the first case of wartime sexual enslavement to go before an international court.
Birthdays Today
1403 - Charles VII, King of France (1422-61), drove out English
1440 - Ladislaus V Posthumus, King of Hungary/Bohemia
1599 - Anthony Van Dyck, Antwerp Belgium, painter
1634 - Petrus "Pieter" van Schooten, fortress architect
1732 - George "I cannot tell a lie..." Washington, the first president of the United States (1789-97), was born at his parents' plantation in the Virginia Colony.Virginia,
1770 - Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer
1778 - Rembrandt Peale (artist: painted hundreds of portraits, member of the famous Peale family of artists)
1778 - Rembrandt Peale, portrait/historical painter (Court of Death)
1788 - Arthur Schopenhauer, Germany, philosopher (Great Pessimist)
1810 - Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer
1810 - Frederic-Francois Chopin (composer: of more than 200 compositions for solo piano)
1819 - James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat/abolitionist
1822 - Adolf Kuszmaul, German physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease)
1857 - Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scouts, Girl Guides)
1891 - "Chico" Marx, NYC, actor/comedian (Marx Brothers, Animal Crackers)
1894 - Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach, composer
1906 - Gale Gordon, LA, Calif, actor (Conklin, Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy)
1907 - Robert Young (Emmy Award-winning actor: Father Knows Best, [1958], Marcus Welby M.D. [1970], The Bride Wore Red, Crossfire, Honolulu, Northwest Passage)
1907 - Sheldon Leonard (Bershad) (actor: It's a Wonderful Life, Guys and Dolls; Emmy Award-winning Director: The Danny Thomas Show [1957, 1961], and Executive Producer: My World and Welcome to It [1970])
1918 - Charles O. (Oscar) Finley (former baseball owner: Kansas City and Oakland Athletics)
1918 - Sidney Abel (hockey: NHL MVP: Detroit Red Wings [1949])
1921 - Jean-Bedel Bokassa, dictator
1925 - Edward Gorey, Chicago, author/artist (Curious Sofa)
1925 - Gerard Hoffnung, Berlin Germany, artist, humorist, musician (Hoffnung Music Festival)
1926 - Bud Yorkin (Emmy Award-winning Director: An Evening with Fred Astaire [1959] and The Jack Benny Specials [1960])
1929 - Marni Nixon, singer (for Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood & Deborah Kerr)
1932 - Edward Kennedy (MA Democrat: U.S. Senator; brother of 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy and U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy)
1932 - Edward M "Ted" Kennedy, (Sen-D-Mass, 1962- )
1934 - George "Sparky" Anderson, SD, baseball manager (Reds, Tigers)
1934 - Sparky (George) Anderson (baseball manager: Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers)
1937 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer/multi-millionaire
1940 - Chet Walker (basketball)
1943 - Tom and Dick VanArsdale (basketball)
1944 - Jonathan Demme, Baldwin NY, actor/director (Silence of the Lambs)
1944 - Tom Okker (tennis: Men's Professional Tour record holder for most doubles titles in a career [78])
1945 - Oliver Swofford (singer: Jean, Good Morning Starshine)
1949 - Niki Lauda (Andress von Lauda) (auto racer)
1950 - Julius Erving II (Basketball Hall of Famer: Philadelphia 76ers: Dr. J. the third pro player to score more than 30,000 career points [after Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar])
1956 - Amy Alcott (golf champion: U.S. Open [1980], Nabisco Dinah Shore [1983, 1988, 1991], Du Maurier Classic [1979])
Famous deaths
1076 - Godfried III, with the Hump, duke of Lower Lorraine, murdered
1371 - David II Bruce, king of Scotland (1331..71), dies at 46
1512 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (America), dies at 60
1687 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Paris, composer
1690 - Charles Le Brun, classical painter (Academie de Peinture), dies at 70
1727 - Francesco Gasparini, composer, dies at 58
1832 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, Weimar, Germany (Faust, Egmont)
1943 - Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (White Rose), beheaded at 24
1943 - Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose), beheaded
1973 - Winthrop Rockefeller, US governor (Arkansas), dies at 60
1982 - Murray "the K" Kaufman, NYC DJ (5th Beatle), dies at 60
1987 - Andy Warhol, pop artist, dies at 58
1995 - Ed Flanders, actor (Dr Westphall-St Elsewhere), commits suicide at 60
1997 - Albert Shanker, the leader of the American Federation of Teachers who championed public school reforms, died in New York at age 68.
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