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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 - Last Invasion of Britain : 1797 The Last Invasion of Britain by the French, 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 .
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 10-cent 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 .
1915 - World War I : Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare .
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 defenses collapses.
1943 - Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
1944 - American aircraft bombard the Dutch towns of Nijmegen , Arnhem , Enschede and Deventer by mistake, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
1948 - Communist coup in Czechoslovakia .
1958 - Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic .
1959 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500 .
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 Conference (OIC ) summit conference starts in Lahore, Pakistan . Thirty-seven countries are attending. Twenty-two heads of state and government participate.
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.
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.
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 )
1810 - Frédéric Chopin , Polish-French composer and pianist (d. 1849 )
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 Boy Scouts (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 )
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 )
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 )
1907 - Sheldon Leonard , American actor (d. 1997 )
1907 - Robert Young , American actor (d. 1998 )
1908 - Sir John Mills , English actor (d. 2005 )
1911 - Bill Baker , American baseball player (d. 2006 )
1913 - Buddy Tate , American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (d. 2001 )
1914 - Renato Dulbecco , Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1917 - Jane Bowles , American playwright (d. 1973 )
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 , 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 television director (d. 2003 )
1921 - Giulietta Masina , Italian actress (d. 1994 )
1922 - Jesús Iglesias , Argentine racing driver (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
1928 - Clarence 13X , American religious leader (d. 1969 )
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
1933 - Katharine, Duchess of Kent
1933 - Bobby Smith , English footballer
1934 - Sparky Anderson , American baseball manager
1936 - J. Michael Bishop , Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 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
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
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 - Bill Frist , American politician
1953 - Graham Lewis , English musician (Wire )
1953 - Nigel Planer , British actor
1955 - Tim Young , Canadian ice hockey player
1959 - Jiří Čunek , Czech politician
1959 - Kyle MacLachlan , American actor
1961 - Akira Takasaki , Japanese guitarist
1962 - Steve Irwin , Australian herpetologist (d. 2006 )
1962 - Lenda Murray , American bodybuilder
1962 - Les Wallace , Scottish darts player
1963 - Vijay Singh , Fijian golfer
1964 - Gigi Fernandez , Puerto Rican tennis player
1965 - Pat Lafontaine , American ice hockey player
1965 - Dean Karr , American director and photographer
1965 - Chris Dudley , American basketball player
1966 - Rachel Dratch , American actress and comedienne
1966 - Brian Greig , Australian politician
1966 - Thorsten Kaye ,Daytime actor and poet
1966 - Aiden Shaw , English pornographic actor
1967 - Alf Poier , Austrian comedian
1968 - Shawn Graham , Canadian politician
1968 - Jayson Williams , American basketball player
1968 - Bradley Nowell , American musician (d. 1996 )
1968 - Jeri Ryan , American actress
1968 - Elna Reinach , South African tennis player
1969 - Thomas Jane , American actor
1969 - Joaquín Cortés , Spanish dancer
1969 - Hans Klok , Dutch illusionist
1969 - Brian Laudrup , Danish footballer
1969 - Byron Stroud , American bassist
1969 - Clinton Kelly , American television personality
1970 - Dominic Roussel , Canadian ice hockey player
1971 - Lea Salonga , Filipina actress and singer
1972 - Michael Chang , American tennis player
1972 - Claudia Pechstein , German speed skater
1973 - Juninho Paulista , Brazilian footballer
1973 - Claus Lundekvam , Norwegian 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
1979 - Brett Emerton , Australian footballer
1979 - Lee Na-young , South Korean actress
1981 - Fredson Camara , Brazilian footballer
1982 - Jenna Haze , American pornographic actress
1982 - Robert Weiner, Jr. , American water polo player
1984 - Venetian Princess Internet (You tube) Star (Real Name: Jodie-Amy Rivera)
1985 - Hameur Bouazza , Algerian footballer
1985 - Sean Garballey , American politician
1986 - Miko Hughes , American actor
1986 - Rajon Rondo , American basketball player
1988 - Kevin Borlée , Belgian athlete
1988 - Przemysław Kazimierczak , Polish footballer
1989 - Alia Sabur , American college educator
Deaths
965 - Odo, 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 )
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 )
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 )
1984 - Jessamyn West , American writer (b. 1902 )
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 Hero (b. 1912 )
2002 - Jonas Savimbi , Angolan rebel 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 )
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
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