Historical Events
22 Feb 1071
Battle of Cassel Robert I the Frisian defeats Arnulf IIII
22 Feb 1495
French King Charles VIII enters Naples to claim crown
22 Feb 1561
William of Orange appointed viceroy of Burgundy and Charolais
22 Feb 1630
Native Amerian Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn at Thanksgiving
22 Feb 1744
Battle of Toulon or Battle of Cape Sici British vs. French & Spanish fleet
22 Feb 1774
British House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright
22 Feb 1775
1st US joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at 10 cents
22 Feb 1775
Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland
22 Feb 1784
1st US ship to trade with China Empress of China sails from NY
22 Feb 1797
The Last Invasion of Britain by the French begins near Fishguard Wales
22 Feb 1819
Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country Florida (Adams-Ons Treaty)
22 Feb 1821
Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for 5 million
22 Feb 1825
Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary
22 Feb 1836
Dutch garrison evacuates fort Du Bus New Guinea
22 Feb 1847
Battle of Buena Vista US troops beat Mexican army
22 Feb 1856
1st national meeting of Republican Party (Pittsburgh)
22 Feb 1858
Dion Boucicaults Jessie Brown premieres in NYC
22 Feb 1860
Organized baseball played in San Fracsco for 1st time
22 Feb 1860
Shoe-making workers of Lynn Massachusetts strike successfully for higher wages
22 Feb 1861
On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincolns inauguration
22 Feb 1864
2nd and last day of Battle of Okolona Mississippi
22 Feb 1864
Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Battle of Dug Hill) Tennessee
22 Feb 1865
Battle of Wilmington NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals
22 Feb 1865
Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery
22 Feb 1872
1st national convention of Prohibition Party (Columbus Ohio)
22 Feb 1879
1st 5 cent & 10 cent store opened by Frank W. Woolworth in Utica New York (failed almost immediately)
22 Feb 1881
Cleopatras Needle a 3500-year-old Ancient Egyptian obelisk is erected in Central Park New York
22 Feb 1882
With 120 miles James Saunders wins NYCs 24 hour race & 100 prize
22 Feb 1888
Father of American Golf John Reid first demonstrates golf on a Yonkers cow pasture to friends
22 Feb 1889
US President Cleveland signs bill to admit Dakotas Montana & Washington state to the union
22 Feb 1893
1st Iron Bowl Auburn beats Alabama 32-22 in Birmingham
22 Feb 1898
Black postmaster lynched his wife & 3 daughters shot in Lake City South Carolina
22 Feb 1900
Battle at Wynnes Hill South Africa (Boers vs British army)
22 Feb 1903
Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water
22 Feb 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.
22 Feb 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
22 Feb 1906
Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in Los Angeles California
22 Feb 1907
1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London
22 Feb 1907
Leonid Andreyevs Zhizn Cheloveka premieres in St Petersburg
22 Feb 1911
The Canadian Parliament resolves to maintain union with the British Empire while controlling domestic fiscal affairs
22 Feb 1912
J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph
22 Feb 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
22 Feb 1918
Germany claims Baltic states Finland & Ukraine from Russia
22 Feb 1920
1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville California)
22 Feb 1922
Congress authorizes Grant Memorial 1 gold coin
22 Feb 1922
London issues a unilateral declaration of Egyptian independence
22 Feb 1923
1st successful chinchilla farm in US (Los Angeles California)
22 Feb 1927
Baruch Spinosas house of mourning opened as a museum
22 Feb 1928
1st solo flight from England to Australia lands in Darwin 15 days after take off piloted by Australian aviator Bert Hinkler
22 Feb 1932
Purple Heart (the Badge of Military Merit) award reinstituted
22 Feb 1935
Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
22 Feb 1936
Sonja Henie of Norway follows up her Winter Olympics victory with an incredible 10th consecutive womens World Championship figure skating gold medal in Paris France
22 Feb 1940
German air force sinks 2 German destroyers killing 578
22 Feb 1941
Arthur Bomber Harris becomes British Air Marshal
22 Feb 1941
IG Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp
22 Feb 1941
Roy Harris Ballad of a Railroad Man premieres
22 Feb 1943
Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
22 Feb 1944
US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede Arnhem & Nijmegen by mistake800 die
22 Feb 1950
Brockway & Weinstock publish Men of Music (rev ed)
22 Feb 1951
4th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS) All About Eve Best Film
22 Feb 1952
Germany takes the Olympic bobsleigh double with gold in the 4-man event at the Oslo Winter Games Adreas Ostler and Lorenz Niebert score their 2nd gold medals after winning the 2-man a week earlier
22 Feb 1952
German husband and wife team Ria and Paul Falk win the mixed pairs gold medal at the Oslo Winter Olympics defeat American siblings Karol and Peter Kennedy
22 Feb 1955
British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sets sail
22 Feb 1956
1st English soccer match at Kunstlicht Portsmouth vs Newcastle United
22 Feb 1957
Walter OMalley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958
22 Feb 1958
Portotino closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 3 performances
22 Feb 1958
Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days
22 Feb 1958
Indonesian air force bombs Padang SumatraMenado Celebes
22 Feb 1959
Inaugural Daytona 500 Lee Petty and Johnny Beauchamp cross finish line side by side Beauchamp declared unofficial winner ruling overturned after 3 days by NASCAR founder Bill France Sr
22 Feb 1960
German skier Georg Thoma becomes the first non-Nordic athlete to win the Nordic combined event at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics
22 Feb 1963
Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)
22 Feb 1964
Beatles arrive back in England after their 1st US visit
22 Feb 1965
USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test)
22 Feb 1966
Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok & Ugolek 1st 2-dog crew
22 Feb 1967
Sling-shot goal post & 6 wide border around field are standard in NFL
22 Feb 1967
25000 US and South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Junction City against the Viet Cong. Largest US airborne assault since WWII.
22 Feb 1968
Rock group Genesis release their 1st record Silent Sun
22 Feb 1969
Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major US track
22 Feb 1970
Charles Aznavour closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 23 performances
22 Feb 1970
12th Daytona 500 Pete Hamilton wins by just 3 car lengths over David Pearson after passing him with 9 laps to go
22 Feb 1972
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Emir & Prime Minister of Qatar
22 Feb 1972
The Official IRA bombs Aldershot military barracks the headquarters of the British Parachute Regiment killing seven people thought to be in retaliation for Bloody Sunday.
22 Feb 1973
US & China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing & Washington D.C.
22 Feb 1978
2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly Tenn
22 Feb 1978
28th Berlin International Film Festival Las truchas and What Max Said win the Golden Bear (tie)
22 Feb 1979
Cleveland Metroparks Zoos Primate & Cat Building is dedicated
22 Feb 1980
Swedish World Cup and World champion Ingemar Stenmark wins his 2nd gold medal of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics taking out the slalom follows-on from giant slalom success
22 Feb 1980
Aleksandr Tikhonov of the Soviet Union earns his 4th straight gold medal as part of the 4 x 7.5k biathlon relay team at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics
22 Feb 1980
Soviet biathlete Anatoly Alyabyev wins his 2nd gold medal of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics as part of the 4 x 7.5k relay team also wins individual gold
22 Feb 1982
NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for NY governor (unsuccessful)
22 Feb 1983
Harold Washington wins Chicagos Democratic mayoral primary
22 Feb 1983
Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 1500m free style swimming record
22 Feb 1984
Brothers Anton & Peter Stastny score 8 pts each for NHL Quebec
22 Feb 1986
Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines
22 Feb 1987
Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200m indoor (20.36 sec)
22 Feb 1989
Finish ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress
22 Feb 1989
NY Lotto pays 26.9 million to one winner (s are 1-5-12-19-44-50)
22 Feb 1989
US authors demonstrate against Iranian death threats against Salman Rushdee author of The Satanic Verses
22 Feb 1989
31st Grammy Awards Dont Worry Be Happy Faith Tracy Chapman
22 Feb 1989
1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)
22 Feb 1990
1st day India v NZ cricket at Auckland NZ 5-78 at lunch 9-387 stumps
22 Feb 1991
Kelli McCarty 21 (Kansas) crowned 40th Miss USA
22 Feb 1992
Park Your Car in Harvard Yard closes at Music Box NYC
22 Feb 1992
Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Open Golf Tournament
22 Feb 1993
Vinod Kambli scores 224 v England at Bombay 411 balls 23 fours
22 Feb 1994
Les Miserables opens at Chunichi Theatre Nagoya
22 Feb 1995
Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters
22 Feb 1995
Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km)
22 Feb 1996
Bus Stop opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 29 performances
22 Feb 1997
Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Open
22 Feb 1998
King & I closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 781 performances
22 Feb 1998
XVIII Winter Olympic Games close in Nagano Japan
22 Feb 1998
Petr Svoboda scores the winner as the Czech Republic claims its first ever Olympic ice hockey gold medal with a 1-0 victory over Russia in Nagano Japan
22 Feb 2002
Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
22 Feb 2005
19th Soap Opera Digest Awards - General Hospital wins
22 Feb 2006
At least six men stage Britains biggest robbery ever stealing 53m (about 92.5 million or 78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge Kent
22 Feb 2010
Taiwans 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
22 Feb 2011
An earthquake measuring 6.3 in magnitude strikes Christchurch New Zealand killing 181 people
22 Feb 2012
Train crash in Buenos Aires Argentina kills 50 and injures hundreds
22 Feb 2013
29 people are killed and 150 are injured by 3 Syrian army missiles in Aleppo
22 Feb 2013
13 Chadian soldiers and 65 Muslim insurgents are killed in conflict in Northern Mali
22 Feb 2013
The European Commission forecast for expects growth of 0.1% across the 27 members of the EU but a contraction of 0.3% in the Eurozone economy
22 Feb 2013
The UKs AAA credit rating is downgraded by Moodys Investors Service to AA the agency expects growth to remain sluggish over the next few years
22 Feb 2014
45th NAACP Image Awards 12 Years a Slave wins Outstanding Motion Picture
22 Feb 2014
Norway sweeps the medals in the womens 30k cross country skiing at the Sochi Winter Olympics Marit Bjrgen wins her 6th career gold ahead of team mates Therese Johaug and Kristin Strmer Steira
22 Feb 2014
Snowboard Olympic parallel special slalom event debuts and is run for the only time at the Sochi Winter Games Russian Vic Wild and Julia Dujmovits of Canada win unique gold medals
22 Feb 2014
Dutch speed skaters Jorien ter Mors (1500m champion) and Ireen Wst (3000m winner) each claim their 2nd gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics as part of the womens pursuit team
22 Feb 2014
At age 34 Mario Matt of Austria becomes the oldest champion in Olympic alpine skiing history with the slalom gold medal at Sochi
22 Feb 2014
After winning the mens parallel giant slalom at the Sochi Winter Olympics Russian snowboarder Vic Wild wins his 2nd gold in the parallel slalom
22 Feb 2015
57th Daytona 500 Joey Logano wins event for 2nd time after taking lead with 10 laps to go is ahead of Kevin Harvick before caution flag on last lap ends race in his favour
22 Feb 2016
10 million people are without water in Delhi after caste protests in Jat sabotage the Munak water canal
22 Feb 2017
Discovery of 7 Earth-sized planets orbiting star Trappist-1 announced in Journal Nature - raises possibility of alien life
22 Feb 2018
US wins Olympic womens ice hockey gold medal for the first time in 20 years with a 4-3 shootout victory over Canada in Pyeongchang scores tied 3-3 after overtime
22 Feb 2018
Chinese short track speed skater Wu Dajing beats mens 500m world record twice en route to winning the gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics 2nd man in history under 40 seconds (39.584s)
22 Feb 2018
German individual Nordic combined 10k large hill champion Johannes Rydzek and normal hill winner Eric Frenzel win their 2nd gold medals of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the 4 x 5k team event
22 Feb 2018
Womens big air snowboarding event makes Olympic debut at Pyeongchang Austrias Anna Gasser is inaugural gold medallist
22 Feb 1821
The AdamsOns Treaty is signed between the United States and Spain ceding Florida to the US
22 Feb 1860
Organized baseball played in San Francisco for 1st time between the Eagles and the Red Rovers
22 Feb 1933
Malcolm Campbell sets world land speed record speed of 272.46 mph driving his famous Blue Bird car at Daytona Beach Florida
22 Feb 1944
World War II US Army Air Forces accidentally bomb Dutch town of Nijmegen around 800 civilians die
22 Feb 1958
Indonesian air force bombs Padang Sumatra and Menado Celebes
22 Feb 2003
Pakistani pace bowler Shoaib Akhtar bowls the fastest ball recorded in cricket history at 100.2 mph (161.3 kmh)
22 Feb 1300
Pope Boniface VIII issues papal bull (decree) instating a Jubilee Year granting forgiveness of sins and debts for those who fulfill various conditions
22 Feb 1630
Native American Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn at Thanksgiving
22 Feb 1819
The AdamsOns Treaty between Spain and the United States is signed ceding Florida to the US and defining the boundary between the US and New Spain
22 Feb 1881
Cleopatras Needle a 3500-year-old Ancient Egyptian obelisk is erected in Central Park New York [1]
22 Feb 1941
Nazi police raid Amsterdam and round up 429 young Jews for deportation to be sent to Buchenwald and Mauthausen concentration camps
22 Feb 2002
Angolan revolutionary politician and military leader of UNITA Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush in the province of Moxico
22 Feb 2014
Norway sweeps the medals in the womens 30k cross country skiing at the Sochi Winter Olympics Marit Bjrgen wins her 6th career gold ahead of teammates Therese Johaug and Kristin Strmer Steira
22 Feb 1415
English King Henry V lays the foundation stone for Syon Abbey for nuns of the Bridgettine Order. Became one of the wealthiest abbeys in England.
22 Feb 1943
Members of White Rose student resistance group are executed in Nazi Germany
22 Feb 1969
Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at an American parimutuel race at a major US track aboard Cohesian at Charles Town West Virginia
22 Feb 1973
Turkish Delight Hollands most successful film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Rutger Hauer is released
22 Feb 1979
Cleveland Metroparks Zoos Primate & Cat Building is dedicated (Cleveland Ohio)
22 Feb 1879
First Woolworths Great Five Cent Store opened by Frank Winfield Woolworth in Utica New York. It fails almost immediately.
22 Feb 1933
Hungarian scholar and the founder of Tibetan studies Alexander Csoma de Krs declared a Bodhisattva (Buddhist saint) in Japan
22 Feb 1943
3 members of White Rose student anti-Nazi resistance group are executed in Munich Germany
22 Feb 1965
Rodgers & Hammersteins television musical Cinderella starring Lesley Ann Warren and Stuart Damon with Pat Carroll and Celeste Holm premieres on CBS-TV
22 Feb 1744
Battle of Toulon [Battle of Cape Sici] Spanish naval fleet supported by Frances Levant fleet breaks through a two-year-old British blockade of Italy allowing the Spanish to go on the offensive against Savoy
22 Feb 1825
Russia and Britain establish the Alaska-Canada boundary
22 Feb 1828
Russia and Persia sign the Peace of Turkmantsjai
22 Feb 1847
Battle of Buena Vista begins between US and Mexican troops
22 Feb 1936
Construction on Ypenburg Netherlands airport begins
22 Feb 1969
Beatles begin recording what becomes their Abbey Road album at EMI Recording Studio at 3 Abbey Road in Westminster London England the studio was later renamed in honor of their achievements there
22 Feb 1972
Red Wings rookie Henry Boucha scores in his first NHL Game in 5-4 win over Toronto Maple Leafs at Olympias Arena in Detroit Michigan
22 Feb 1973
US and China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing and Washington D.C.
22 Feb 1371
King Robert II of Scotland (-90) becomes the first monarch of the House of Stewart
22 Feb 1775
Jews expelled from their settlements on the outskirts of Warsaw Poland
22 Feb 1856
Republican Party holds its first national meeting in Pittsburgh
22 Feb 1907
Londons first cabs with taximeters begin operating
22 Feb 1915
WWI Germany sinks American Merchant ship Carib with mine and torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin
22 Feb 1923
1st successful chinchilla farm in US in Los Angeles California
22 Feb 1941
IG Farben company decides to build its Buna-Werke (rubber factory) adjacent to Auschwitz Concentration Camp to have easy access to slave labor and safe cover from Allied bombing
22 Feb 1950
Wallace Brockway and Herbert Weinstocks revised and expanded edition of reference book Men of Music Their Lives Times and Achievements is published
22 Feb 1964
The Beatles arrive back in England after their successful first US visit
22 Feb 1967
25000 US and South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Junction City against the Viet Cong. Largest US airborne assault since World War II.
22 Feb 1989
Pepsi-Cola airs 1st Spanish commercial on network TV during the Grammy Awards broadcast on CBS
22 Feb 1996
Spaces shuttle Columbia 19 (STS 75) launches into orbit
22 Feb 1997
Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announce they have cloned an adult mammal producing Dolly the sheep - born 5 July 1996 (d. 2003)
22 Feb 2017
Apples new campus is named Apple Park in Culpertino California nicknamed the spaceship designed with Foster Partners the first of 12000 employees to move in in April [1]
22 Feb 2018
Neanderthals not humans were the first artists on Earth producing red cave paintings 65000 years ago in Spain according to new research published in Science
22 Feb 2019
Actor Jussie Smollett suspended from US TV show Empire after revealed that actor made false claims about racist and homophobic attack
22 Feb 2019
Musician Peter Frampton announces he has a degenerative muscular disease and his next tour will be his last
22 Feb 1784
Empress of China the first US ship to trade with China sails from New York
22 Feb 1928
First solo flight from England to Australia lands in Darwin 15 days after takeoff piloted by Australian aviator Bert Hinkler
22 Feb 1963
The Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)
22 Feb 1969
The Beatles begin recording what becomes their Abbey Road album at EMI Recording Studio at 3 Abbey Road in Westminster London England the studio was later renamed in honor of their achievements there
22 Feb 1987
Bruno Marie-Rose runs indoor world record 200m (20.36 sec)
22 Feb 1989
Finnish Ministry of Public Health installs sex education to thwart stress
22 Feb 1989
Pepsi-Cola airs its first Spanish commercial on network TV during the Grammy Awards broadcast on CBS
22 Feb 1997
Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announce they have cloned an adult mammal producing Dolly the sheep born on 5 July 1996 (d. 2003)
22 Feb 2017
Discovery of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting star TRAPPIST-1 announced in journal Nature raises possibility of alien life
22 Feb 2021
Influential French dance duo Daft Punk announce their split after 28 years
22 Feb 2022
Three white men convicted of killing black jogger Ahmaud Arbery found guilty of federal hate crimes in Georgia [1]
22 Feb 2022
US President Joe Biden announces new sanctions against Russia saying its latest moves in Ukraine amount to the beginning of a Russian invasion [1]
22 Feb 2022
US Women soccer players settle their lawsuit with US soccer federation for 24 million and a promise to equalise pay [1]
22 Feb 2023
Astronomers reveal Webb telescope data is upending existing theories of how early galaxies were formed after finding six massive galaxies 100x larger than expected soon after the Big Bang [1]
22 Feb 2024
Japans benchmark stock exchange the Nikkei average reaches its highest-ever level at 39098 breaking its 1989 record [1]
22 Feb 2024
Odysseus is the first private spacecraft to land on the Moon albeit on its side and it is the first US Moon landing since 1972 [1]
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