22 February History


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  • 1349    -    Jews are expelled from Zurich, Switzerland.
  • 1613    -    Mikhail Romanov is elected czar of Russia.
  • 1732    -    George Washington was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
  • 1797    -    The last invasion of Britain takes place when some 1,400 Frenchmen land at Fishguard in Wales.
  • 1819    -    Spain signs a treaty with the United States ceding eastern Florida.
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  • 1825    -    Russia and Britain establish the Alaska/Canada boundary.
  • 1862    -    Jefferson Davis is inaugurated president of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va. for the second time.
  • 1864    -    Nathan Bedford Forrest's brother, Jeffrey, is killed at Okolona, Mississippi.
  • 1865    -    Federal troops capture Wilmington, N.C.
  • 1879    -    Frank Winfield Woolworth's 'nothing over five cents' shop opens at Utica, New York. It is the first chain store.
  • 1902    -    A fistfight breaks out in the Senate. Senator Benjamin Tillman suffers a bloody nose for accusing Senator John McLaurin of bias on the Philippine tariff issue.
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  • 1909    -    The Great White Fleet returns to Norfolk, Virginia, from an around-the-world show of naval power.
  • 1911    -    Canadian Parliament votes to preserve the union with the British Empire.
  • 1920    -    The American Relief Administration appeals to the public to pressure Congress to aid starving European cities.
  • 1924    -    Columbia University declares radio education a success.
  • 1926    -    Pope Pius rejects Mussolini's offer of aid to the Vatican.
  • 1932    -    Adolf Hitler is the Nazi Party candidate for the presidential elections in Germany.
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  • 1935    -    All plane flights over the White House are barred because they are disturbing President Roosevelt's sleep.
  • 1942    -    President Franklin Roosevelt orders Gen. Douglas MacArthur to leave the Philippines.
  • 1951    -    The Atomic Energy Commission discloses information about the first atom-powered airplane.
  • 1952    -    French forces evacuate Hoa Binh in Indochina.
  • 1954    -    U.S. is to install 60 Thor nuclear missiles in Britain.
  • 1962    -    A Soviet bid for new Geneva arms talks is turned down by the U.S.
  • 1963    -    Moscow warns the U.S. that an attack on Cuba would mean war.
  • 1967    -    Operation Junction City becomes the largest U.S. operation in Vietnam.
  • 1984    -    Britain and the U.S. send warships to the Persian Gulf following an Iranian offensive against Iraq.

  • 22 February Birthdays

  • 1403    -    Charles VII, King of France.
  • 1732    -    George Washington, Commander-in-chief of Continental forces during the American Revolution and first U.S. President.
  • 1778    -    Rembrandt Peale, American painter known for portraits of U.S. founding fathers.
  • 1857    -    Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout Movement.
  • 1857    -    Heinrich Hertz, German physicist, the first person to broadcast and receive radio waves.
  • 1892    -    Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet.
  • 1900    -    Sean O'Faolain, Irish short story writer.
  • 1925    -    Edward Gorey, American writer and illustrator.
  • 1932    -    Edward Kennedy, Massachusetts Senator, brother of John F. Kennedy.
  • 1944    -    Jonathan Demme, film director (The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia).