Notable Historical Events on February 22nd
February 22nd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
896 |
Pope Formosa crowned king Arnulf of Karinthie/French emperor |
1071 |
Battle of Cassel; Robert I the Frisian defeats Arnulf III/I |
1281 |
Simon de Brion elected Pope Martinus IV |
1288 |
Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolas IV |
1300 |
Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree |
1349 |
Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland |
1495 |
French King Charles VIII enters Naples to claim crown |
1561 |
William of Orange appointed viceroy of Burgundy/Charolais |
1630 |
Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving |
1632 |
Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published. |
1656 |
New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site |
1744 |
Battle at Toulon: English-French & Spanish fleet |
1746 |
French troops conquer Brussels |
1746 |
Jakobijnse troops vacate Aberdeen |
1774 |
British House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright |
1775 |
1st US joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at 10 cents |
1775 |
Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland |
1784 |
1st US ship to trade with China, "Empress of China," sails from NY |
1797 |
The Last Invasion of Britain by the French, begins near Fishguard, Wales. |
1819 |
Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida (Adams-Onís Treaty) |
1821 |
Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million |
1825 |
Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary |
1828 |
Russia & Persia sign Peace of Turkmantsjai |
1835 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave Valdivia Chile |
1836 |
Dutch garrison evacuates fort Du Bus New Guinea |
1847 |
Battle of Buena Vista: US troops beat Mexican army |
1854 |
1st meeting of Republican Party (Michigan) |
1856 |
1st national meeting of Republican Party (Pittsburgh) |
1858 |
Dion Boucicault's "Jessie Brown," premieres in NYC |
1860 |
Organized baseball played in SF for 1st time |
1860 |
Shoe-making workers of Lynn Ms, strike successfully for higher wages |
1861 |
On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration |
1864 |
-27] Battle at Dalton Georgia |
1864 |
2nd/last day of Battle of Okolona, MS |
1864 |
Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta) Tennessee |
1865 |
Battle of Wilmington, NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals |
1865 |
Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery |
1872 |
1st national convention of Prohibition Party (Columbus Ohio) |
1876 |
Johns Hopkins University opens |
1878 |
Greenback Labor Party forms (Toledo Ohio) |
1879 |
1st 5 cent & 10 cent store opened by Frank W Woolworth (Utica NY) |
1882 |
With 120 miles James Saunders wins NYC's 24 hour race & $100 prize |
1882 |
The Serbian kingdom is refounded. |
1887 |
Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati |
1888 |
John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers NY) |
1889 |
US President Cleveland signs bill to admit Dakotas, Montana & Washington state to the union |
1892 |
"Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde premieres at St James (London) |
1892 |
Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms |
1898 |
Black postmaster lynched, his wife & 3 daughters shot in Lake City SC |
1900 |
Battle at Wynne's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army) |
1900 |
Hawaii became a US territory |
1903 |
Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water |
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. |
1904 |
The Hague Tribunal gives its decision in claims against Venezuela; it sets the sum to be paid by Venezuela and gives preferential treatment to the three powers that initiated the block - Britain, Germany, and Italy |
1906 |
Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in LA Calif |
1907 |
1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London |
1907 |
Leonid N Andreyev's "Zhizn Cheloveka," premieres in St Petersburg |
1909 |
Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Va |
1911 |
The Canadian Parliament resolves to maintain union with the British Empire, while controlling domestic fiscal affairs |
1912 |
J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph |
1913 |
Lowell HS, SF opens (on its 1st campus) |
1915 |
Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war |
1916 |
The House-Grey Memorandum, drafted by US and Britain, states: 'Should the Allies accept [the American idea of a conference to end the war] and should Germany refuse it, the United States would "probably" enter the war against Germany' |
1917 |
German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships |
1917 |
[NS Mar 7] Russian February Revolution begins with strike at Putilov factory in Petrograd |
1918 |
Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia |
1920 |
1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville California) |
1922 |
Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin |
1923 |
1st successful chinchilla farm in US (Los Angeles California) |
1923 |
Transcontinental airmail service begins |
1927 |
ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine |
1927 |
Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum |
1928 |
1st solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler) |
1932 |
Purple Heart award reinstituted |
1934 |
"It Happened One Night," opens at NY's Radio City Music Hall |
1935 |
Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House |
1936 |
Construction on Ypenburg Neth airport begins |
1939 |
Netherlands recognizes Franco regime in Spain |
1940 |
Finnish troops vacate Koivisto island |
1940 |
German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578 |
1941 |
Arthur "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal |
1941 |
German assault on El Agheila Libya |
1941 |
IG Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp |
1941 |
Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam |
1941 |
Paul Creston's 1st Symphony, premieres |
1941 |
Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man," premieres |
1942 |
World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defenses collapse |
1943 |
Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany. |
1944 |
US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem & Nijmegen by mistake/800+ die |
1945 |
Arab League forms (Cairo) |
1945 |
British troops take Ramree Island, Burma |
1945 |
Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland |
1948 |
Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die |
1950 |
Brockway & Weinstock publish "Men of Music" (rev ed) |
1955 |
British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail |
1956 |
1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United |
1957 |
Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win |
1957 |
Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958 |
1958 |
"Portotino" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 3 performances |
1958 |
Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days |
1958 |
Egypt & Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR) |
1958 |
Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes |
1959 |
1st Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH) |
1962 |
Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free throw attempts |
1963 |
Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs) |
1964 |
Beatles arrive back in England after their 1st US visit |
1965 |
USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test) |
1966 |
Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok & Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew |
1967 |
Barbara Garson's "MacBird," premieres in NYC |
1967 |
Sling-shot goal post & 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL |
1967 |
25,000 US & S Vietnamese troops launch Operation Junction City against Viet Cong. Largest US airborne assult since WWII |
1968 |
Rock group Genesis release their 1st record "Silent Sun" |
1969 |
Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major US track |
1970 |
"Charles Aznavour" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 23 perfs |
1971 |
Lt Gen Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria |
1972 |
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir & Prime Minister of Qatar |
1972 |
President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing |
1972 |
Aldershot bombing: seven people killed by an Official IRA car bomb at Aldershot Barracks in England; thought to be in retaliation for Bloody Sunday |
1972 |
The Official Irish Republican Army explodes a bomb at Aldershot military barracks, the headquarters of the Parachute Regiment, killing seven people |
1973 |
US & China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing & Wash DC |
1974 |
Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators |
1976 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic |
1978 |
2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly, Tenn |
1979 |
Billy Martin named manager of Oakland A's |
1979 |
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate & Cat Building is dedicated |
1979 |
St Lucia gains independence from Britain |
1980 |
Afghanistan declares martial law |
1980 |
USA beats USSR in Olympic hockey 4-3, referred to as "Miracle on Ice". USA captain Mike Eruzione scores winning goal in 3rd period |
1981 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic |
1982 |
NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for NY governor (unsuccessful) |
1983 |
Harold Washington wins Chicago's Democratic mayoral primary |
1983 |
Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India |
1983 |
Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 1500m free style swimming record |
1984 |
Brothers Anton & Peter Stastny score 8 pts each for NHL Quebec |
1986 |
Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines. |
1987 |
Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200m indoor (20.36 sec) |
1988 |
Bonnie Blair skates world record 500m (39.10 sec) |
1989 |
Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress |
1989 |
NY Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50) |
1989 |
UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud" |
1989 |
US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals" |
1989 |
31st Grammy Awards: Don't Worry Be Happy, Faith, Tracy Chapman |
1989 |
1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award) |
1990 |
1st day India v NZ cricket at Auckland NZ 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps |
1991 |
Bush & US Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hrs to begin Kuwait withdrawal |
1991 |
Kelli McCarty, 21, (Kansas), crowned 40th Miss USA |
1991 |
Test Cricket debut of Sanath Jayasuriya, vs NZ at Hamilton |
1992 |
"Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" closes at Music Box NYC |
1992 |
Barry Diller resigns as CEO of Fox |
1992 |
Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Open Golf Tournament |
1993 |
Vinod Kambli scores 224 v England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours |
1994 |
"Les Miserables," opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya |
1995 |
Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters |
1995 |
Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km) |
1996 |
"Bus Stop" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 29 performances |
1996 |
STS 75 (Columbia 19), launches into orbit |
1997 |
Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Open |
1998 |
"King & I," closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 781 performances |
1998 |
18th Winter Olympic games close at Nagano Japan |
2002 |
Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush. |
2005 |
19th Soap Opera Digest Awards - General Hospital wins |
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. |
2009 |
81st Academy Awards - "Slumdog Millionare," Sean Penn & Kate Winslet win |
2009 |
Heath Ledger, posthumously, wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Act for his performance as the Joker in "The Dark Knight" |
2010 |
Taiwan's economy exits from the recession with 9.22% growth in the last quarter of 2009 after increased demand from China and other key markets in the region |
2011 |
An earthquake measuring 6.3 in magnitude strikes Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 181 people |
2012 |
Train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 50 and injures hundreds |
2013 |
29 people are killed and 150 are injured by by 3 Syrian army missiles in Aleppo |
2013 |
13 Chadian soldiers and 65 Muslim insurgents are killed in conflict in Northern Mali |
2013 |
The UK's credit rating is downgraded from AAA to AA1 by Moody's Investors Service |
2013 |
The European Commission forecast for 2013 expects growth of 0.1% across the 27 members of the EU but a contraction of 0.3% in the Eurozone economy |
2013 |
In its National Economic Report of Bermuda for 2012, the Bermudan Ministry of Finance expects GDP will decline by 0% to 1.5% in 2013 but five years of recession will end with "modest growth in 2014" |
2013 |
The UK's AAA credit rating is downgraded by Moody's to AA+; the agency expects growth to "remain sluggish over the next few years" |
2014 |
Matteo Renzi becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
2014 |
Marit Bjørgen of Norway becomes the most successful female Winter Olympian with 10 medals |
2014 |
Ukrainian parliament votes to remove President Viktor Yanukovych from his position |
2017 |
UPS Tests Drones for Regular Deliveries in Rural Areas |
2017 |
Firebrand Milo quits Breitbart News after child sex remarks |
2017 |
Milo Yiannopoulos quits Breitbart News |
2017 |
British suicide bomber dies in attack on Iraqi forces in Mosul |
2017 |
US unveils sweeping orders to deport illegal immigrants |
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