On this day in History - Feb. 22

• 1290s BC - The coronation of Ramses II, on whose face the sun's rays fall each year in Abu Simbel temple.
• 0965- Odo, Duke of Burgundy, dies.
• 1281 - Martin IV [ Simon de Brion] becomes Pope.
• 1288 - Nicholas IV [Girolamo Masci] becomes Pope.
• 1349 - Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland .
• 1370 - Roberto II substitui seu tio, David II, como rei da Escócia, iniciando a dinastia Stuart.
• 1440 - Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary was born.
• 1455 - Nace el humanista Johannes Renchlin.
• 1461 – Guerra das Rosas – Segunda Batalha de St. Albans: Margarida de Anjou derrota Warwick e recupera a guarda de Henrique VI .
• 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
• 1512 - Amerigo Vespucci, dies (b. 1454). Spanish astronomer whose name was given to the New World - America - because it was he and not Columbus, who realized and announced that Columbus had discovered a new continent.
• 1532 - Ciação da Vila de São Vicente, a primeira do Brasil.
• 1599 - Nace Antonio van Dyck, en Antuerpia, Belgica, painter pintor flamenco, gran retratista.
• 1632 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
• 1732- George Washington, was born, first President of the United States (d. 1799) (Note: February 11 in the Julian Calendar that was then still in use) .
• 1744 - The Battle of Toulon began.
• 1745 - João de Sousa Carvalho composer.
• 1775 - Pio VI se torna o 250º papa.
• 1778 - Rembrandt Peale, was born, artist.
• 1788 - Arthur Schopenhauer, was born, philosopher (d. 1860) .
• 1796 - Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, was born, mathematician (d. 1874) .
• 1797 -Muere el fantasioso y aventurero barón Karl Hieronimus von Münchhausen
• 1810 - Frédéric F Chopin Polish/French pianist/composer .
• 1817 - Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, was born, mathematician .
• 1819 - James Russell Lowell, was born, poet and essayist (d. 1891) .
• 1819 - By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sold Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
• 1825 - Rusia y Gran Bretaña establecen la frontera entre Canadá y Alaska .
• 1828 - Regresso a Lisboa de D. Miguel, que jura a Carta Constitucional, assume a regência e nomeia um novo ministério.
• 1828 - Russia & Persia sign Peace of Turkmantsjai .
• 1832 - Se promulga una nueva Constitución centralista en Nueva Granada (actual Colombia). El general Francisco de Paula Santander, es elegido presidente.
• 1835 - El general Felipe Santiago Salaverry se proclama Jefe Supremo de la república peruana.
• 1839 - Francis Pharcellus Church, was born, American editor and publisher (d. 1906).
• 1840 - August Bebel, was born, politician (d. 1913).
• 1841 - El Congreso sanciona la proclamación de independencia de El Salvador.
• 1847 - Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista -5,000 American troops drive off 15,000 Mexican.
• 1849 - Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, was born, Russian mathematician (d 1915).
• 1857 - Lord Robert Baden-Powell, was born, founder of the Scouting movement (d. 1941).
• 1857 - Heinrich Hertz, was born, German physicist (d. 1894).
• 1865 - Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery.
• 1875 - Sir Charles Lyell, dies, geologist (b. 1797).
• 1875 -Muere el pintor Camille Corot .
• 1876 - Johns Hopkins University founded in Baltimore, Maryland.
• 1878 - Walter Ritz, was born, Swiss physicist (d. 1909) .
• 1879 - In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores.
• 1880 - Frigyes Riesz, was born, mathematician.
• 1889 - Lady Olave Baden-Powell, was born, GBE (nee Soames) Chief Girl Guide (d. 1977).
• 1889 - President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
• 1892 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, was born, writer (d. 1950).
• 1894 - Victor Brecheret, nascimento de, escultor, em São Paulo, Brasil.
• 1895 - Nace Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, político peruano.
• 1895 - Plínio Salgado, nascimento de, fundador e líder do Integralismo.
• 1897 - Barbosa Lima Sobrinho nasce no Recife, jornalista e escritor brasileiro .
• 1899 - Dwight Frye, was born, actor (d. 1943) .
• 1899 - Dechko Uzunov, was born, painter (d. 1986) .
• 1900 - Luis Buñuel, was born, Spanish film director (d. 1983) .
• 1900 - Hawaii pasa a ser territorio de los Estados Unidos .
• 1901 - George Francis FitzGerald, dies, mathematician .
• 1903 - Hugo Wolf, dies, composer (b. 1860) .
• 1903 - Morley Callaghan, was born, Canadian writer (d. 1990) .
• 1903 - Frank Plumpton Ramsey, was born, mathematician (d. 1903) .
• 1904 - Se iza la bandera argentina en la Isla Laurie, primer acto de soberanía en la Antártida.
• 1905 - Nace Luis Sandrini, actor argentino.
• 1907 - Sheldon Leonard, was born, actor, writer, director, producer .
• 1907 - Robert Young, was born, actor (d. 1998) .
• 1908 - John Mills, was born, actor .
• 1908 - Rómulo Betancourt, nace, político y periodista venezolano.
• 1908 - Nace Rómulo Betancourt, político venezolano.
• 1912 - A telegrafia sem fios é introduzida em Portugal.
• 1913 - Ferdinand de Saussure dies. Swiss linguist.
• 1913 - Francisco Madero, presidente de México. tras ser depuesto por una revuelta encabezada por el general Victoriano Huerta, es asesinado por los rebeldes.
• 1914 - Renato Dulbecco was born. Italian virologist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1975 (with Howard M. Temin and David Baltimore, both of whom had studied under him) for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell.
• 1920 - In Emeryville, California, the first dog race track to employ an imitation rabbit opens.
• 1922 - Leonel Brizola, nascimento de, político brasileiro .
• 1924 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
• 1925 - Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt dies (b. 20 July 1836). English physician, the inventor of the short clinical thermometer.
• 1926 - Kenneth Williams, was born, actor (d. 1988) .
• 1927 - Guy Mitchell, was born, singer .
• 1932 - Edward Kennedy, was born, politician and brother of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy .
• 1933 - O texto da futura Constituição de 1933 é publicado no Diário do Governo.
• 1934 - Sparky Anderson, was born, Baseball Hall of Fame manager .
• 1936 - J. Michael Bishop was born. American virologist and co-winner (with Harold Varmus) of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1989.
• 1939 - Antonio Machado y Ruiz, muere, poeta español .
• 1941 - Hipólito Mejía, was born, former President of the Dominican Republic (2000-2004) .
• 1942 - World War II: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defense collapses.
• 1943 - Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
• 1943 - Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl, die, founders of the German resistance group White Rose .
• 1943 - Horst Köhler, nascimento de, presidente federal de Alemania .
• 1944 - Jonathan Demme, was born, director, Robert Kardashian, Lawyer for O. J. Simpson .
• 1945 - Arab League forms (Cairo) .
• 1949 - Niki Lauda, was born, Formula One driver (world champion 1975, 77, 84) .
• 1950 - Julius Erving, was born, Basketball Hall of Famer .
• 1950 - Miou-Miou,(Sylvette Héry) was born, actress .
• 1950 - Julie Walters, was born, actress .
• 1956 - Elvis Presley enters the music charts for the first time, with "Heartbreak Hotel".
• 1959 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
• 1959 - Kyle MacLachlan, was born, actor .
• 1961 - Nick LaRocca, dies, jazz musician (b. 1889) .
• 1962 - Desaparece el matemático Julio Rey Pastor.
• 1962 - Steve Irwin, was born, Australian herpetologist and TV personality (The Crocodile Hunter) .
• 1963 - Vijay Singh, was born, golfer.
• 1964 - President Kwame Nkrumah declares a one-party state in Ghana.
• 1965 - Felix Frankfurter, dies, justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1882) .
• 1966 - Brian Andrew Greig, was born, statesman .
• 1966 - Premier Apollo Milton Obote, implicated with his army commander General Idi Amin over a scandal of a cache of gold and ivory taken from neighbouring Congo, orders the arrest of five of his cabinet ministers and assumes the presidency.
• 1967 - Alf Poier, was born, Austrian comedian.
• 1967 - The world's first albino Gorilla is discovered in Africa.
• 1967 - O presidente da Indonésia Achmad Sukarno cede todo o poder ao primeiro ministro, General Suharto, permanecendo no cargo apenas simbolicamente.
• 1968 - Jeri Ryan, was born, actress.
• 1968 - Peter Arno, dies, cartoonist.
• 1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin wins a United States thoroughbred horse race making history as the first woman to do so.
• 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.
• 1974 - Pakistán reconoce a Bangla Desh.
• 1975 - É abolida a Dissertação de Licenciatura na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Clássica de Lisboa.
• 1975 - Drew Barrymore, was born in Los Angeles CA, actress .
• 1976 - Angela Baddeley, dies, actress & sister of Hermione Baddeley (b. 1904) .
• 1976 - Florence Ballard, dies, singer with The Supremes (b. 1943) .
• 1979 - Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
• 1980 - Martial Law declared in Kabul by Soviet occupation forces .
• 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".
• 1980 - Oskar Kokoschka, dies. Austria/British painter/graphic artist.
• 1982 - Jenna Haze, was born, erotic actress.
• 1983 - Sir Adrien Boult, dies, English conductor (b. 1889).
• 1983 - Finaliza en Argel la reunión del Consejo Nacional Palestino, con la reelección de Yaser Arafat como presidente de la OLP.
• 1984 - Jessamyn West, dies, writer (b. 1902).
• 1985 -Muere el poeta Salvador Espriu.
• 1986 - Una revuelta popular derroca al dictador filipino Ferdinand Marcos, que cuatro días después se exilia a Hawaii.
• 1987 - Andy Warhol, dies, artist, director, writer (b. 1928).
• 1991 - Iraq begins setting fire to Kuwait's oil installations.
• 1994 - Papa John Creech, dies, musician .
• 1994 - Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
• 1996 - Actress Halle Berry files for divorce from David Justice .
• 1997 - In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
• 1998 - culminan los 18vos. Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno en Nagano, Japón.
• 2000 - Fernando Buesa, dies, Basque politician (b. 1946) .
• 2002 - A MH-47E Chinook helicopter crashes into the ocean near the Philippines killing all 10 aboard.
• 2002 - Chuck Jones, dies, animator (b. 1912) .
• 2002 - Jonas Savimbi, dies, Angolan rebel leader (b. 1934) .
• 2003 - Kurt Gscheidle, dies, politician .
• 2004 - Andy Seminick, dies, catcher and last survivor of the 1950 Phillies' "Whiz Kids" (b. 1920).
• 2004 - Roque Máspoli, dies, legendary Uruguayan goalkeeper (b. 1917).