February 22

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February 22 in recent years

2010 (Monday)

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).

Events

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.
1797 – The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
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 Mexicans.
1853 – Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
1855 – The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania)
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.
1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
1882 – The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
1889 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
1904 – The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
1909 – The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by Connecticut, returns to the United States after a voyage around the world.
1915 – World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President 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 the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
1943 – World War II: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
1944 – World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
1948 – Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
1957 – Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survived a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.
1958 – Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
1959 – Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
1972 – The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
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 – Organisation of the Islamic Conferencesummit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
1974 – Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1979 – Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
1980 – Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3, in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
1983 – The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
1985 – Mohd saleem akhtar khan was born.
1986 – Start of the People Power 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.
1995 – The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
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.
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.

Births

1040 – Rashi, French rabbi (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. 1837)
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)
1824 – Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (d. 1907)
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 Scout movement (d. 1941)
1857 – Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894)
1864 – Jules Renard, French author (d. 1910)
1874 – Bill Klem, American baseball 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)
1881 – Joseph B. Ely, American politician (d. 1956)
1881 – Albin Prepeluh, Slovenian author and politician (d. 1937)
1882 – Eric Gill, British sculptor (d. 1940)
1883 – Marguerite Clark, American actress (d. 1940)
1886 – Hugo Ball, German author and poet (d. 1927)
1887 – Ksawery Tartakower, Polish chess player (d. 1956)
1888 – Owen Brewster, American politician (d. 1961)
1889 – Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (d. 1977)
1890 – Beatriz Michelena, Latin-American silent movie star (d. 1942)
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 (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)
1906 – Humayun Kabir, Indian educationist and politician (d. 1969)
1907 – Sheldon Leonard, American actor (d. 1997)
1907 – Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)
1908 – Sir John Mills, English actor (d. 2005)
1908 – Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan president (d. 1981)
1911 – Bill Baker, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1913 – Buddy Tate, American jazz musician (d. 2001)
1914 – Henry Reed, English poet (d. 1986)
1914 – Renato Dulbecco, Nobel laureate
1917 – Jane Bowles, American playwright (d. 1973)
1918 – Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2000)
1918 – Charlie Finley, American sports entrepreneur (d. 1996)
1918 – Don Pardo, American announcer
1918 – Robert Wadlow, American tallest ever-human (d. 1940)
1921 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Central African Republic leader (d. 1996)
1921 – Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
1921 – David Greene, British director (d. 2003)
1921 – Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (d. 1994)
1922 – Jesús Iglesias, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
1923 – Bleddyn Williams, Welsh rugby player (d. 2009)
1925 – Edward Gorey, American illustrator (d. 2000)
1926 – Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)
1926 – Bud Yorkin, American film director
1927 – Florencio Campomanes, Filipino political scientist, (d. 2010)
1928 – Paul Dooley, American actor
1928 – Bruce Forsyth, British entertainer
1928 – Clarence 13X, American religious leader (d. 1969)
1928 – Axel Strøbye, Danish actor (d. 2005)
1929 – James Hong, American actor
1929 – Rebecca Schull, American actress
1930 – Marni Nixon, American singer
1930 – James McGarrell, American painter
1932 – Ted Kennedy, American politician (d. 2009)
1933 – Katharine, Duchess of Kent
1933 – Bobby Smith, English footballer
1934 – Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager
1935 – Sven Inge, Swedish artist (d. 2008)
1936 – J. Michael Bishop, Nobel laureate
1936 – Ernie K-Doe, American singer (d. 2001)
1938 – Steve Barber, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1938 – Ishmael Reed, American writer
1938 – Pierre Vallières, French-Canadian politician (d. 1995)
1940 – Johnson Mlambo, South African politician
1940 – Billy Name, American photographer
1941 – Hipólito Mejía, Dominican politician
1941 – Giorgos Arvanitis, Greek cinematographer
1942 – Christine Keeler, English model and showgirl
1943 – Terry Eagleton, British theorist
1943 – Horst Köhler, President of Germany
1944 – Jonathan Demme, American director
1944 – Robert Kardashian, American lawyer (d. 2003)
1944 – Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player
1945 – Leslie Charleson, American actress
1945 – Oliver, American singer (d. 2000)
1947 – Carol Burns, Australian actress
1947 – Harvey Mason, Jazz drummer
1947 – Frank P. Tomasulo, American film professor and critic
1947 – Maurizio De Angelis, Italian musician
1948 – John Ashton, American actor
1949 – Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver and entrepreneur
1949 – Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player
1950 – Julius Erving, American basketball player
1950 – Ellen Greene, American actress
1950 – Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer
1950 – Miou-Miou, French actress
1950 – Genesis P-Orridge, English musician and performer
1950 – Julie Walters, English actress
1952 – Cyrinda Foxe, American model (d. 2002)
1952 – Bill Frist, American politician
1953 – Graham Lewis, English musician (Wire)
1953 – Nigel Planer, British actor
1955 – David Axelrod, American political consultant
1955 – Tim Young, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 – Gordon Banks, American guitarist
1959 – Jiří Čunek, Czech politician
1959 – Kyle MacLachlan, American actor
1960 – Charles Cullen, American serial killer
1961 – Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist
1962 – Steve Irwin, Australian herpetologist (d. 2006)
1962 – Lenda Murray, American bodybuilder
1962 – Les Wallace, Scottish darts player
1963 – Devon Malcolm, English Cricketer
1963 – Vijay Singh, Fijian golfer
1964 – Gigi Fernandez, Puerto Rican tennis player
1964 – Ed Boon, video game programmer and Mortal Kombat co-creator
1965 – Chris Dudley, American basketball player
1965 – Dean Karr, American director and photographer
1965 – Pat LaFontaine, American ice hockey player
1966 – Rachel Dratch, American actress and comedienne
1966 – Brian Greig, Australian politician
1966 – Thorsten Kaye, German actor
1966 – Aiden Shaw, English pornographic actor
1967 – Alf Poier, Austrian comedian
1968 – Shawn Graham, Canadian politician
1968 – Bradley Nowell, American musician (d. 1996)
1968 – Elna Reinach, South African tennis player
1968 – Jeri Ryan, American actress
1968 – Jayson Williams, American basketball player
1969 – Joaquín Cortés, Spanish dancer
1969 – Thomas Jane, American actor
1969 – Clinton Kelly, American TV personality
1969 – Hans Klok, Dutch illusionist
1969 – Brian Laudrup, Danish footballer
1970 – Dominic Roussel, Canadian ice hockey player
1970 – Ravi Vakil, Canadian-American mathematician
1971 – Lea Salonga, Filipina actress and singer
1972 – Michael Chang, American tennis player
1972 – Laurence Leboucher, French cyclist
1973 – Claus Lundekvam, Norwegian footballer
1973 – Juninho Paulista, Brazilian footballer
1973 – Einar Kristian Tveitå, Norwegian athlete
1974 – James Blunt, English musician
1974 – Chris Moyles, English DJ
1975 – Drew Barrymore, American actress
1976 – Faan Rautenbach, South African rugby player
1977 – Timo Rose, German filmmaker
1977 – Hakan Yakin, Swiss footballer
1978 – Jenny Frost, British singer/presenter/model/DJ (Atomic Kitten)
1978 – Peter Madsen, Danish football player
1979 – Brett Emerton, Australian footballer
1979 – Lee Na-young, South Korean actress
1980 – Kang Sung Hoon, South Korean singer (Sechs Kies)
1981 – Jeanette Biedermann, German pop singer
1981 – Fredson Camara, Brazilian footballer
1982 – Dichen Lachman, Australian Actress
1982 – Jenna Haze, American pornographic actress
1982 – Robert Weiner, Jr., American water polo player
1982 – Shawntae Spencer, American football player
1983 – Penny Flame, American pornographic actress
1983 – Shaun Tait, Australian cricketer
1984 – VenetianPrincess, YouTube celebrity
1984 – Branislav Ivanović, Serbian footballer
1984 – Giorgos Printezis, Greek basketball player
1984 – Tommy Bowe, Irish rugby player
1985 – Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer
1985 – Sean Garballey, American politician
1986 – Miko Hughes, American actor
1986 – Rajon Rondo, American basketball player
1987 – Han Hyo-joo, South Korean actress and model
1988 – Kevin Borlée, Belgian athlete
1989 – Alia Sabur, American college educator

Deaths

965 – Otto, Duke of Burgundy (b. 944)
1071 – Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (killed in battle) (b. c. 1055)
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 (b. c. 1640)
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)
1799 – Heshen, infamous Qing Dynasty Chinese official at court (b. 1750)
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)
1904 – Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (b. 1832)
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)
1934 – Willem Kes, Dutch conductor (b. 1856)
1939 – Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1875)
1942 – Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (b. 1881)
1943 – Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1918)
1943 – Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (b. 1919)
1943 – Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1921)
1944 – Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mohandas Gandhi (b. 1869)
1945 – Osip Brik, Russian writer (b. 1888)
1958 – Abul Kalam Azad, Indian independence movement leader (b. 1888)
1960 – Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (b. 1905)
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)
1973 – Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Quebec politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
1973 – Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (b. 1900)
1974 – Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1930)
1976 – Angela Baddeley, English actress (b. 1904)
1976 – Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (b. 1943)
1980 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist (b. 1886)
1981 – Michael Maltese, American screenwriter (b. 1908)
1982 – Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (b. 1898)
1983 – Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)
1983 – Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (b. 1913)
1985 – Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (b. 1913)
1985 – Alexander Scourby, American actor (b. 1913)
1985 – Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (b. 1889)
1987 – Andy Warhol, American artist, director, and writer (b. 1928)
1989 – Moisés da Costa Amaral, East Timorese leader, UDT President in the exterior (b. 1938)
1994 – Papa John Creach, American musician (b. 1917)
1995 – Ed Flanders, American actor (b. 1934)
1997 – Joseph Aiuppa, American gangster (b. 1907)
1998 – Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)
1999 – Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
2000 – Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (b. 1946)
2002 – Chuck Jones, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
2002 – Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel and political leader (b. 1934)
2002 – Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat and war hero (b. 1916)
2002 – Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963)
2003 – Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (b. 1913)
2004 – Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
2004 – Andy Seminick, American 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)
2005 – Hunter S. Thompson, American author and journalist (b. 1937)
2006 – Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (b. 1961)
2007 – Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954)
2007 – Howard Verne Ramsey, oldest U.S. veteran of WWI (b. 1898)
2007 – Samuel Hinga Norman, Sierra Leonean alleged war criminal (b. 1940)
2007 – George Jellicoe, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords & Special Boat Service veteran (b. 1918)

Holidays and observances

Celebrity Day (Church of Scientology)
Christian Feast Day
- Blessed Isabelle of France
- Margaret of Cortona
Feast of the Chair (Roman Catholic Church)
Independence Day (Saint Lucia, from United Kingdom in 1979)
Washington's Birthday, celebrate George Washington's birthday on February 11, 1732. When the Gregorian calendar was adopted in the English Colonies (1752), he opted to begin observing his birthdate anniversary on the equivalent date of 22 February (United States)
World Thinking Day, also known as "B.-P. day" or "Founder's Day", the shared birthday of the Scouts' founder Sir Robert Baden-Powell and his wife Lady Olave Baden-Powell, the World Chief Guide. (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts)

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