February 22

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[edit] Events

• 1290s BC - The coronation of Ramses II, on whose face the sun's rays fall each year in Abu Simbel temple.
• AD 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 sold 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.
• 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. 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 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.
• 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 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 had been successfully cloned.
• 2002 - A MH-47E Chinook helicopter crashes into the ocean near the Philippines, killing all 10 aboard.
• 2004 - Ralph Nader announces his intention to run as an independent candidate for President of the United States.

[edit] Births

• 1732 - George Washington, first president of the United States
• 1975 - Drew Barrymore, American actress

[edit] Deaths

• 965 - Odo, Duke of Burgundy
• 1512 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and explorer (b. 1454)
• 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)
• 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)
• 1932 - Ted Kennedy, US senator
• 1939 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1875)
• 1943 - Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1918)
• 1943 - Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1921)
• 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, American writer (b. 1902)
• 1985 - Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (b. 1889)
• 1985 - Alexander Scourby, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1987 - Andy Warhol, American artist, director, and writer (b. 1928)
• 1987 - David Susskind, American television producer
• 1994 - Papa John Creech, musician
• 1995 - Ed Flanders, American actor
• 1997 - Joseph Aiuppa, American gangster (b. 1907)
• 1998 - Sandy Hume, American reporter
• 1998 - Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)
• 2000 - Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (b. 1946)
• 2002 - Chuck Jones, American animator (b. 1912)
• 2002 - Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel leader (b. 1934)
• 2003 - Kurt Gscheidle, politician
• 2004 - Andy Seminick, baseball player (b. 1920)
• 2004 - Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
• 2005 - Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
• 2005 - Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish artist (b. 1929)