February 22

	February 22 February 22 is the 53rd day of every year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 312 days remaining, 313 in leap years. \n Events \n* 1290s BC - The coronation of Ramses II, on whose face the sun's rays fall each year in Abu Simbel temple.\n* 1281 - Martin IV becomes Pope.\n* 1288 - Nicholas IV becomes Pope.\n* 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.\n* 1630 - Native American Quadequine introduces Popcorn to English colonists at their first Thanksgiving dinner.\n1632 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems* is published.\n* 1819 - Spain cedes Florida to the United States.\n* 1847 - Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista - 5,000 American troops drive off 15,000 Mexican.\n* 1865 - Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery. \n* 1876 - Johns Hopkins University founded in Baltimore, Maryland.\n* 1879 - In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores. \n* 1889 - President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.\n* 1920 - In Emeryville, California, the first dog race track to employ an imitation rabbit opens. \n* 1924 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.\n* 1942 - World War II: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defense collapses.\n* 1943 - Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.\n* 1956 - Elvis Presley enters the music charts for the first time, with "Heartbreak Hotel".\n* 1959 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.\n* 1967 - Suharto takes power from Sukarno in Indonesia.\n* 1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin wins a United States thoroughbred horse race making history as the first women to do so. \n* 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. \n* 1979 - Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.\n* 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".\n* 1994 - Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union. \n* 1997 - In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.\n* 2002 - A MH-47E Chinook helicopter crashes into the ocean near the Philippines killing all 10 aboard. Births \n* 1732 - George Washington, first President of the United States (d. 1799) (Note: February 11 in the Julian Calendar that was then still in use)\n* 1778 - Rembrandt Peale, artist\n* 1788 - Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (d. 1860)\n* 1796 - Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, mathematician (d. 1874)\n* 1810 - Fr�d�ric Chopin, Polish composer (d. 1849)\n* 1817 - Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, mathematician\n* 1819 - James Russell Lowell, poet and essayist (d. 1891)\n* 1839 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)\n* 1840 - August Bebel, politician (d. 1913)\n* 1849 - Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician (d 1915)\n* 1857 - Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouting movement (d. 1941)\n* 1857 - Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894)\n* 1878 - Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909) \n* 1880 - Frigyes Riesz, mathematician\n* 1889 - Lady Olave Baden-Powell GBE (nee Soames) Chief Girl Guide (d. 1977) \n* 1892 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, writer (d. 1950)\n* 1900 - Luis Bu�uel, film director (d. 1983)\n* 1903 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (d. 1990)\n* 1903 - Frank Plumpton Ramsey, mathematician (d. 1903)\n* 1907 - Sheldon Leonard, actor, writer, director, producer\n* 1907 - Robert Young, actor (d. 1998)\n* 1908 - John Mills, actor\n* 1926 - Kenneth Williams, actor (d. 1988)\n* 1932 - Edward Kennedy, politician and brother of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy\n* 1934 - Sparky Anderson, Baseball Hall of Fame manager\n* 1944 - Jonathan Demme, director, Robert Kardashian, Lawyer for O. J. Simpson\n* 1949 - Niki Lauda, Formula One driver\n* 1950 - Julius Erving, Basketball Hall of Famer\n* 1950 - Miou-Miou, actress\n* 1950 - Julie Walters, actress\n* 1959 - Kyle MacLachlan, actor\n* 1962 - Steve Irwin, Australian herpetologist and TV personality (The Crocodile Hunter)\n* 1963 - Vijay Singh, golfer\n* 1966 - Brian Andrew Greig, statesman\n* 1968 - Jeri Ryan, actress (Star Trek: Voyager, Boston Public)\n* 1975 - Drew Barrymore, actress Deaths \n* 965 - Odo of Paris, Duke of Burgundy\n* 1512 - Amerigo Vespucci, explorer (b. 1454)\n* 1875 - Sir Charles Lyell, geologist (b. 1797)\n* 1901 - George Francis FitzGerald, mathematician\n* 1903 - Hugo Wolf, composer (b. 1860)\n* 1943 - Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl, founders of the German resistance group White Rose\n* 1961 - Nick LaRocca, jazz musician (b. 1889)\n* 1965 - Felix Frankfurter, justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1882)\n* 1968 - Peter Arno, cartoonist\n* 1976 - Florence Ballard, singer with The Supremes (b. 1943)\n* 1984 - Jessamyn West, writer (b. 1902)\n* 1987 - Andy Warhol, artist, director, writer (b. 1928)\n* 1994 - Papa John Creech, musician\n* 2000 - Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (b. 1946)\n* 2002 - Chuck Jones, animator (b. 1912)\n* 2002 - Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel leader (b. 1934)\n* 2003 - Kurt Gscheidle, politician Holidays and observances Catholicism - Chair of St. Peter.\nUnited States - Washington's Birthday (traditionally)\nSaint Lucia - independence (1979) February 21 - February 23 - January 22 - March 22 -- listing of all days \n
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