Historical Events and Current Affairs on February 22

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
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: English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright
1775: 1st US joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at œ10
1775: Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland
1784: 1st US ship to trade with China, "Empress of China," sails from NY
1819: Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida (Adams-On¡s 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› & 10› store opened by Frank W Woolworth (Utica NY)
1882: With 120 miles James Saunders wins NYC's 24 hour race & $100 prize
1887: Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati
1889: Dakotas, Montana & Washington admitted to union
1889: Pres Cleveland signs bill to admit Dakotas, Montana & Washington state
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
1906: Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in LA Calif
1906: Max Wolf discovers asteroids #587 Hypsipyle & #588 Achilles
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
1912: J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph
1913: Lowell HS, SF opens (on it's 1st campus)
1915: Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war
1917: German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships
1918: Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia
1920: 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville Calif)
1922: Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin
1923: 1st successful chinchilla farm in US (LA Calif)
1923: Transcontinental airmail service begins
1924: 1st presidential radio address (Calvin Coolidge)
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
1933: G”ring forms SA/SS-police, shoots 40-50
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
1938: #2733 Hamina & #2737 Kotka
1938: Y Vaisala discovers asteroids #1451 Grano, #2397 Lappajarvi,
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 T "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
1944: US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem & Nijmegen by mistake/800+ die
1945: Arab League froms (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
1956: Elvis Presley's 1st hit in Billboard's top 10: "Heartbreak Hotel"
1957: Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win
1957: Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in Calif 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: 25,000 US & S Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City,
1967: Barbara Garson's "MacBird," premieres in NYC
1967: offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border
1967: Sling-shot goal post & 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL
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
1973: US & China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing & Wash DC
1974: Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators
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 en route to a gold medal
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
1984: Brothers Anton & Peter Stastny score 8 pts each for NHL Qu‚bec
1987: Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200m indoor (20.36 sec)
1988: #4220 Flood, #5061 & #5277
1988: Bonnie Blair skates world record 500m (39.10 sec)
1989: 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)
1989: 31st Grammy Awards: Don't Worry Be Happy, Faith, Tracy Chapman
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: Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals"
1989: UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"
1989: US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman
1991: Actor Bill Bixby (57) weds Laura Michael (32)
1991: Bush & US Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hrs to begin Kuwait withdrawal
1991: Kelli McCarty, 21, (Kansas), crowned 40th Miss USA
1992: "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" closes at Music Box NYC
1992: Barry Diller resigns as CEO of Fox
1992: Ed McMahon, 69, weds Pamela Hurn, 37
1992: Rockers Kurt Corbin (Nirvana) & Courtney Love (Hole), wed
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: Actress Halle Berry files for divorce from David Justice
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

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