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Dulbecco,
Renato&o=10616
Dulbecco, Renato&o=10616
February 22
Events
1495
- King
Charles VIII of France
enters
Naples
to claim the city's throne.
1632
-
Galileo
's
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
is published.
1744
-
War of the Austrian Succession
: The
Battle of Toulon
begins.
1797
-
Last Invasion of Britain
: 1797 The Last Invasion of Britain by the French, begins near Fishguard, Wales.
1819
- By the
Adams-Onís Treaty
,
Spain
sells
Florida
to the
United States
for five million
U.S. dollars
.
1847
-
Mexican-American War
: The
Battle of Buena Vista
- 5,000 American troops drive off 15,000
Mexicans
.
1856
- The
Republican Party
opens its first national meeting in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
.
1862
-
Jefferson Davis
is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in
Richmond, Virginia
. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on
February 18
,
1861
.
1879
- In
Utica, New York
,
Frank Woolworth
opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent
Woolworth
stores.
1882
- The
Serbian kingdom
is refounded.
1889
-
President
Grover Cleveland
signs a bill admitting
North Dakota
,
South Dakota
,
Montana
and
Washington
as
U.S. states
.
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
.
1915
-
World War I
:
Germany
institutes
unrestricted submarine warfare
.
1924
-
Calvin Coolidge
becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a
radio
broadcast from the
White House
.
1942
-
World War II
: President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
orders
General
Douglas MacArthur
out of the
Philippines
as American defenses collapses.
1943
- Members of
White Rose
are executed in
Nazi
Germany.
1944
- American aircraft bombard the Dutch towns of
Nijmegen
,
Arnhem
,
Enschede
and
Deventer
by mistake, resulting in 800 dead in
Nijmegen
alone.
1948
-
Communist
coup in
Czechoslovakia
.
1958
-
Egypt
and
Syria
join to form the
United Arab Republic
.
1959
-
Lee Petty
wins the first
Daytona 500
.
1973
-
Cold War
: Following United States President
Richard Nixon
's
visit
to the
People's Republic of China
, the two countries agree to establish
liaison
offices.
1974
-
Organisation of the Islamic Conference
(
OIC
) summit conference starts in
Lahore, Pakistan
. Thirty-seven countries are attending. Twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognized
Bangladesh
.
1974 -
Samuel Byck
tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1979
- Independence of
Saint Lucia
from the United Kingdom.
1980
-
Miracle on Ice
: In
Lake Placid, New York
, the United States hockey team defeats the
Soviet Union
hockey team 4-3, in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
1983
The notorious
Broadway
flop
Moose Murders
opened and closed on the same night at the
Eugene O'Neill Theatre
.
1986
- Start of the
People Power Revolution
in the
Philippines
.
1994
-
Aldrich Ames
and his wife are charged by the
United States Department of Justice
with spying for the Soviet Union.
1997
- In
Roslin, Scotland
, scientists announce that an adult
sheep
named
Dolly
had been successfully
cloned
.
2002
-
Angolan
political and rebel leader
Jonas Savimbi
is killed in a military ambush.
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
.
Births
1040
-
Rashi
, French rabbi (d.
1105
)
1403
-
Charles VII of France
(d.
1461
)
1440
-
Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary
(d.
1457
)
1500
-
Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi
, Italian humanist (d.
1564
)
1612
-
George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol
, English statesman (d.
1677
)
1705
-
Peter Artedi
, Swedish naturalist (d.
1735
)
1714
-
Louis-Georges de Bréquigny
, French historian (d.
1795
)
1732
-
George Washington
,
First President of the United States
(d.
1799
)
1756
-
Georg Friedrich von Martens
, German diplomat (d.
1821
)
1778
-
Rembrandt Peale
, American artist (d.
1860
)
1788
-
Arthur Schopenhauer
, German philosopher (d.
1860
)
1796
-
Alexis Bachelot
, French missionary (d.
1837
)
1796 -
Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet
, Belgian mathematician (d.
1874
)
1806
-
Józef Kremer
, Polish messianistic philosopher (d.
1875
)
1810
-
Frédéric Chopin
, Polish-French composer and pianist (d.
1849
)
1817
-
Carl Wilhelm Borchardt
, German mathematician (d.
1880
)
1819
-
James Russell Lowell
, American poet and essayist (d.
1891
)
1824
-
Pierre Janssen
, French astronomer (d.
1907
)
1825
-
Jean Baptiste Salpointe
, second
Archbishop of Santa Fe
(d.
1898
)
1839
-
Francis Pharcellus Church
, American editor and publisher (d.
1906
)
1840
-
August Bebel
, German politician (d.
1913
)
1849
-
Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin
, Russian mathematician (d.
1915
)
1857
-
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
, English founder of the
Boy Scouts
(d.
1941
)
1857 -
Heinrich Hertz
, German physicist (d.
1894
)
1864
-
Jules Renard
, French author (d.
1910
)
1874
-
Bill Klem
, American baseball umpire (d.
1951
)
1878
-
Walter Ritz
, Swiss physicist (d.
1909
)
1879
-
Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted
, Danish physical chemist (d.
1947
)
1880
-
Frigyes Riesz
, Hungarian mathematician (d.
1956
)
1881
-
Joseph B. Ely
, American politician (d.
1956
)
1882
-
Eric Gill
, British sculptor (d.
1940
)
1883
-
Marguerite Clark
, American actress (d.
1940
)
1886
-
Hugo Ball
, German author and poet (d.
1927
)
1887
-
Ksawery Tartakower
, Polish chess player (d.
1956
)
1888
-
Owen Brewster
, American politician (d.
1961
)
1889
-
Olave Baden-Powell
, English founder of the
Girl Guide
(d.
1977
)
1891
-
Vlas Chubar
, Soviet politician (d.
1939
)
1892
-
Edna St. Vincent Millay
, American writer (d.
1950
)
1895
-
Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre
, Peruvian politician (d.
1979
)
1897
-
Karol Świerczewski
, Polish general (d.
1947
)
1899
-
Dwight Frye
, American actor (d.
1943
)
1899 -
George O'Hara
, American actor (d.
1966
)
1899 -
Dechko Uzunov
, Bulgarian painter (d.
1986
)
1900
-
Luis Buñuel
, Spanish-born film director (d.
1983
)
1900
-
Seán Ó Faoláin
, Irish author (d.
1991
)
1902
-
Fritz Strassmann
, German physicist (d.
1980
)
1903
-
Morley Callaghan
, Canadian writer (d.
1990
)
1903 -
Ain-Ervin Mere
, Estonian Nazi (d.
1969
)
1903 -
Robert Weede
, American baritone (d.
1972
)
1907
-
Sheldon Leonard
, American actor (d.
1997
)
1907 -
Robert Young
, American actor (d.
1998
)
1908
- Sir
John Mills
, English actor (d.
2005
)
1911
-
Bill Baker
, American baseball player (d.
2006
)
1913
-
Buddy Tate
, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (d.
2001
)
1914
-
Renato Dulbecco
,
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
laureate
1917
-
Jane Bowles
, American playwright (d.
1973
)
1918
-
Sid Abel
, Canadian hockey player (d.
2000
)
1918 -
Charlie Finley
, American sports entrepreneur (d.
1996
)
1918 -
Don Pardo
, American radio and television announcer
1918 -
Robert Wadlow
, American tallest ever-human (d.
1940
)
1921
-
Jean-Bédel Bokassa
, Central African Republic leader (d.
1996
)
1921 -
Wayne Booth
, American literary critic (d.
2005
)
1921 -
David Greene
, British television director (d.
2003
)
1921 -
Giulietta Masina
, Italian actress (d.
1994
)
1922
-
Jesús Iglesias
, Argentine racing driver (d.
2005
)
1925
-
Edward Gorey
, American illustrator (d.
2000
)
1926
-
Kenneth Williams
, English actor (d.
1988
)
1926 -
Bud Yorkin
, American film director
1928
-
Paul Dooley
, American actor
1928 -
Bruce Forsyth
, British entertainer
1928 -
Clarence 13X
, American religious leader (d.
1969
)
1929
-
James Hong
, American actor
1929 -
Rebecca Schull
, American actress
1930
-
Marni Nixon
, American singer
1930 -
James McGarrell
, American painter
1932
-
Ted Kennedy
, American politician
1933
-
Katharine, Duchess of Kent
1933 -
Bobby Smith
, English footballer
1934
-
Sparky Anderson
, American baseball manager
1936
-
J. Michael Bishop
,
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
laureate
1936 -
Ernie K-Doe
, American singer (d.
2001
)
1938
-
Steve Barber
, American baseball player (d.
2007
)
1938 -
Ishmael Reed
, American writer
1938 -
Pierre Vallières
, French-Canadian politician (d.
1995
)
1940
-
Johnson Mlambo
, South African politician
1940 -
Billy Name
, American photographer
1941
-
Hipólito Mejía
,
Dominican
politician
1942
-
Christine Keeler
, English model and showgirl
1943
-
Terry Eagleton
, British theorist
1943 -
Horst Köhler
, President of Germany
1944
-
Jonathan Demme
, American director
1944 -
Robert Kardashian
, American lawyer (d.
2003
)
1944 -
Tom Okker
, Dutch tennis player
1945
-
Leslie Charleson
, American actress
1945 -
Oliver
, American singer (d.
2000
)
1947
-
Carol Burns
, Australian actress
1948
-
John Ashton
, American actor
1949
-
Niki Lauda
, Austrian race car driver and
entrepreneur
1949 -
Olga Morozova
, Russian tennis player
1950
-
Julius Erving
, American basketball player
1950 -
Ellen Greene
, American actress
1950 -
Lenny Kuhr
, Dutch singer
1950 -
Miou-Miou
, French actress
1950 -
Genesis P-Orridge
, English musician and performer
1950 -
Julie Walters
, English actress
1952
-
Bill Frist
, American politician
1953
-
Graham Lewis
, English musician (
Wire
)
1953 -
Nigel Planer
, British actor
1955
-
Tim Young
, Canadian ice hockey player
1959
-
Jiří Čunek
, Czech politician
1959 -
Kyle MacLachlan
, American actor
1961
-
Akira Takasaki
, Japanese guitarist
1962
-
Steve Irwin
, Australian herpetologist (d.
2006
)
1962 -
Lenda Murray
, American
bodybuilder
1962 -
Les Wallace
, Scottish darts player
1963
-
Vijay Singh
, Fijian golfer
1964
-
Gigi Fernandez
, Puerto Rican tennis player
1965
-
Pat Lafontaine
, American ice hockey player
1965 -
Dean Karr
, American director and photographer
1965 -
Chris Dudley
, American basketball player
1966
-
Rachel Dratch
, American actress and comedienne
1966 -
Brian Greig
, Australian politician
1966 -
Thorsten Kaye
,Daytime actor and poet
1966 -
Aiden Shaw
, English pornographic actor
1967
-
Alf Poier
, Austrian comedian
1968
-
Shawn Graham
, Canadian politician
1968 -
Jayson Williams
, American basketball player
1968 -
Bradley Nowell
, American musician (d.
1996
)
1968 -
Jeri Ryan
, American actress
1968 -
Elna Reinach
, South African tennis player
1969
-
Thomas Jane
, American actor
1969 -
Joaquín Cortés
, Spanish dancer
1969 -
Hans Klok
, Dutch illusionist
1969 -
Brian Laudrup
, Danish footballer
1969 -
Byron Stroud
, American bassist
1969 -
Clinton Kelly
, American television personality
1970
-
Dominic Roussel
, Canadian ice hockey player
1971
-
Lea Salonga
, Filipina actress and singer
1972
-
Michael Chang
, American tennis player
1972 -
Claudia Pechstein
, German speed skater
1973
-
Juninho Paulista
, Brazilian footballer
1973
-
Claus Lundekvam
,
Norwegian
footballer
1973 -
Einar Kristian Tveitå
, Norwegian athlete
1974
-
James Blunt
, English musician
1974 -
Chris Moyles
, English DJ
1975
-
Drew Barrymore
, American actress
1976
-
Faan Rautenbach
, South African rugby player
1977
-
Timo Rose
, German filmmaker
1977
-
Hakan Yakin
, Swiss footballer
1979
-
Brett Emerton
, Australian footballer
1979 -
Lee Na-young
, South Korean actress
1981
-
Fredson Camara
, Brazilian footballer
1982
-
Jenna Haze
, American pornographic actress
1982 -
Robert Weiner, Jr.
, American water polo player
1984
-
Venetian Princess
Internet (You tube) Star (Real Name: Jodie-Amy Rivera)
1985
-
Hameur Bouazza
, Algerian footballer
1985 -
Sean Garballey
, American politician
1986
-
Miko Hughes
, American actor
1986 -
Rajon Rondo
, American basketball player
1988
-
Kevin Borlée
, Belgian athlete
1988 -
Przemysław Kazimierczak
, Polish footballer
1989
-
Alia Sabur
, American college educator
Deaths
965
-
Odo, Duke of Burgundy
(b.
944
)
1071
-
Arnulf III, Count of Flanders
(killed in battle) (b. c.
1055
)
1111
-
Roger Borsa
, King of Sicily
1371
- King
David II of Scotland
(b.
1324
)
1512
-
Amerigo Vespucci
, Italian merchant and explorer (b.
1454
)
1627
-
Olivier van Noort
, Dutch navigator (b.
1558
)
1674
-
Jean Chapelain
, French writer (b.
1595
)
1680
-
Catherine Monvoisin
, French sorceress (b. c.
1640
)
1690
-
Charles Le Brun
, French artist (b.
1619
)
1727
-
Francesco Gasparini
, Italian composer (b.
1661
)
1731
-
Frederik Ruysch
, Dutch physician and anatomist (b.
1638
)
1732
-
Francis Atterbury
, English bishop and man of letters (b.
1663
)
1742
-
Charles Rivington
, English publisher (b.
1688
)
1797
-
Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen
, German officer and adventurer (b.
1720
)
1799
-
Heshen
, infamous
Qing Dynasty
Chinese official at court (b.
1750
)
1816
-
Adam Ferguson
, Scottish philosopher and historian (b.
1723
)
1875
-
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
, French painter (b.
1796
)
1875 - Sir
Charles Lyell
, Scottish geologist (b.
1797
)
1890
-
John Jacob Astor III
, American businessman (b.
1822
)
1890 -
Carl Heinrich Bloch
, Danish painter (b.
1834
)
1892
-
Herman Koeckemann
, German Catholic prelate (b.
1828
)
1903
-
Hugo Wolf
, Austrian composer (b.
1860
)
1904
-
Leslie Stephen
, English writer and critic (b.
1832
)
1913
-
Ferdinand de Saussure
, Swiss linguist (b.
1857
)
1921
-
Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah
, Emir of Kuwait (b.
1864
)
1923
-
Théophile Delcassé
, French statesman (b.
1852
)
1934
-
Willem Kes
, Dutch conductor (b.
1856
)
1939
-
Antonio Machado
, Spanish poet (b.
1875
)
1942
-
Stefan Zweig
, Austrian writer (b.
1881
)
1943
-
Hans Scholl
, German resistance fighter (b.
1918
)
1943 -
Christoph Probst
, German resistance fighter (b.
1919
)
1943 -
Sophie Scholl
, German resistance fighter (b.
1921
)
1944
-
Kasturba Gandhi
, wife of
Mohandas Gandhi
(b.
1869
)
1945
-
Osip Brik
, Russian writer (b.
1888
)
1960
-
Paul-Émile Borduas
, Quebec painter (b.
1905
)
1961
-
Nick LaRocca
, American jazz musician (b.
1889
)
1965
-
Felix Frankfurter
, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b.
1882
)
1968
-
Peter Arno
, American cartoonist (b.
1904
)
1973
-
Jean-Jacques Bertrand
, Quebec politician,
Premier of Quebec
(b.
1916
)
1973 -
Katina Paxinou
, Greek actress (b.
1900
)
1974
-
Samuel Byck
, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b.
1930
)
1976
-
Angela Baddeley
, English actress (b.
1904
)
1976 -
Florence Ballard
, American singer (
The Supremes
) (b.
1943
)
1980
-
Oskar Kokoschka
, Austrian artist (b.
1886
)
1982
-
Josh Malihabadi
,
Urdu
poet of India and Pakistan (b.
1898
)
1983
- Sir
Adrian Boult
, English conductor (b.
1889
)
1983 -
Romain Maes
, Belgian cyclist (b.
1913
)
1984
-
Jessamyn West
, American writer (b.
1902
)
1985
-
Salvador Espriu
, Spanish poet (b.
1913
)
1985 -
Alexander Scourby
, American actor (b.
1913
)
1985 -
Efrem Zimbalist
, Russian violinist (b.
1889
)
1987
-
Andy Warhol
, American artist, director, and writer (b.
1928
)
1989
-
Moisés da Costa Amaral
, East Timorese leader,
UDT
President in the exterior (b.
1938
)
1994
-
Papa John Creach
, American musician (b.
1917
)
1995
-
Ed Flanders
, American actor (b.
1934
)
1997
-
Joseph Aiuppa
, American gangster (b.
1907
)
1998
-
Abraham Ribicoff
, American politician (b.
1910
)
1999
-
Menno Oosting
, Dutch tennis player (b.
1964
)
2000
-
Fernando Buesa
, Spanish politician (b.
1946
)
2002
-
Chuck Jones
, American cartoonist (b.
1912
)
2002 -
Jonas Savimbi
, Angolan rebel leader (b.
1934
)
2002 -
Roden Cutler
, Australian diplomat and war hero (b.
1916
)
2002 -
Daniel Pearl
, American journalist (b.
1963
)
2003
-
Daniel Taradash
, American screenwriter (b.
1913
)
2004
-
Roque Máspoli
, Uruguayan footballer (b.
1917
)
2004 -
Andy Seminick
, American baseball player (b.
1920
)
2005
-
Zdzisław Beksiński
, Polish artist (b.
1929
)
2005 -
Simone Simon
, French actress (b.
1910
)
2005 -
Lee Eun Ju
, Korean actress (b.
1980
)
2006
-
Anthony Burger
, American musician and singer (b.
1961
)
2007
-
Dennis Johnson
, American basketball player (b.
1954
)
2007 -
Howard Verne Ramsey
, oldest U.S. veteran of WWI (b.
1898
)
2007 -
Samuel Hinga Norman
, Sierra Leonean alleged war criminal (b.
1940
)
2007 -
George Jellicoe
, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords &
Special Boat Service
veteran (b.
1918
)
Holidays and observances
United States
—
Washington's Birthday
.
Saint Lucia
— independence (1979).
The
Scouting
movement and the
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
celebrate this day as "
World Thinking Day
", "B.-P. day", or "Founder's Day", as it is the shared birthday of the Scouts' founder
Sir
Robert Baden-Powell
and his wife,
Lady
Olave Baden-Powell
, the World Chief Guide.
Roman Catholic Church
—
Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter
.
Blessed
Saint Isabel of France
(died 1270)
External links
BBC: On This Day
On This Day in Canada
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