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 dies. Duke of Burgundy.
• 1040 - Rashi was born (d. 1105). French rabbi and commentator.
• 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.
• 1403 - King Charles VII of France was born (d. 1461)
• 1440 - Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary was born (d. 1457).
• 1455 - Johannes Reuchlin was born (d. 30 Jun 1522). German humanist.
• 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.
• 1500 - Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi was born (d. 1564). Italian humanist.
• 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 - Criação da Vila de São Vicente, a primeira do Brasil.
• 1612 - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol was born (d. 1677). English statesman.
• 1632 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
• 1705 - Peter Artedi was born (d. 1735). Swedish naturalist.
• 1714 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny was born (d. 1795). French historian.
• 1732 - George Washington was born (d. 1799). First President of the United States (Note: February 11 in the Julian Calendar that was then still in use) .
• 1744 - The Battle of Toulon began.
• 1745 - João de Sousa Carvalho was born in Estremoz (d. 1799 or 1800). Portuguese composer
• 1775 - Pio VI becomes Pope.
• 1778 - Rembrandt Peale was born (d. 1860). American artist.
• 1788 - Arthur Schopenhauer was born (d. 1860). German philosopher.
• 1796 - Alexis Bachelot was born (d. 1838). French missionary.
• 1796 - Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet was born (d. 1874). Belgian mathematician.
• 1797 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen dies (b. 1720). German officer and adventurer.
• 1816 - Adam Ferguson dies (b. 1723). Scottish philosopher and historian.
• 1817 - Carl Wilhelm Borchardt was born (d. 1880). German mathematician .
• 1819 - James Russell Lowell was born (d. 1891). American poet and essayist.
• 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 (d. 1906). American editor and publisher.
• 1840 - August Bebel was born (d. 1913). German politician.
• 1841 - El Congreso sanciona la proclamación de independencia de El Salvador.
• 1843 - Visconde de Taunay [ Alfred D'Esscragnolle Taunay] was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 25 Jan 1899). Brazilian militar, politician and writer
• 1847 - Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista -5,000 American troops drive off 15,000 Mexican.
• 1849 - Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin was born (d. 1915). Russian mathematician.
• 1855 - The Pennsylvania State University is founded.
• 1856 - The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• 1857 - Lord Robert Baden-Powell was born (d. 1941). English founder of the Scouting movement.
• 1857 - Heinrich Hertz was born (d. 1894). German physicist.
• 1865 - Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery.
• 1875 - Sir Charles Lyell dies (b. 1797). Scottish geologist
• 1875 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot dies (b. 1796). French painter.
• 1876 - Johns Hopkins University founded in Baltimore, Maryland.
• 1878 - Walter Ritz was born (d. 1909). Swiss physicist.
• 1879 - In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores.
• 1880 - Frigyes Riesz was born (d. 1956). Hungarian mathematician.
• 1883 - Marguerite Clark was born (d. 1940). American silent film actress.
• 1886 - Hugo Ball was born (d. 1927). German author and poet.
• 1887 - Ksawery Tartakower was born (d. 1956). Polish chess player.
• 1889 - Lady Olave Baden-Powell was born (d. 1977). GBE (nee Soames) Chief Girl Guide.
• 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 (d. 1950). American writer.
• 1894 - Victor Brecheret was born in São Paulo. Brazilian sculptor.
• 1895 - Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre was born (d. 2 Aug 1979). Peruvian politician who founded the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) party.
• 1895 - Plínio Salgado was born (d. 1975). Brazilian politician founder and leader of Integralism.
• 1897 - Barbosa Lima Sobrinho was born in Recife. Brazilian journalist and writer.
• 1899 - Dwight Frye was born (d. 1943). American actor.
• 1899 - Dechko Uzunov was born (d. 1986). Bulgarian painter.
• 1899 - George O'Hara was born (d. 1966). American actor.
• 1900 - Luis Buñuel was born (d. 1983). Spanish film director.
• 1900 - Hawaii pasa a ser territorio de los Estados Unidos .
• 1902 - Fritz Strassmann was born (d. 1980). German physicist.
• 1903 - Hugo Wolf dies (b. 1860). Austrian composer.
• 1903 - Morley Callaghan was born (d. 1990). Canadian writer.
• 1903 - Frank Plumpton Ramsey was born (d. 1903). British mathematician.
• 1904 - UK recognises the South Orkney Islands as part of Argentina, in 1908 claims them again.
• 1905 - Luis Sandrini was born. Argentine actor.
• 1907 - Sheldon Leonard was born (d. 1997). American actor, writer, director, producer .
• 1907 - Robert Young was born (d. 1998). American actor.
• 1908 - John Mills was born (d. 23 Apr 2005). English actor.
• 1908 - Rómulo Betancourt was born. Venezuelan politician and journalist.
• 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 in Catanzaro. 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.
• 1915 - Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
• 1920 - In Emeryville, California, the first dog race track to employ an imitation rabbit opens.
• 1921 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa was born (d. 1996). Ruler of the Central African Republic
• 1921 - Wayne Booth was born (d. 2005). American literary critic.
• 1921 - Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah dies (b. 1864). Emir of Kuwait.
• 1922 - Leonel Brizola was born. Brazilian politician.
• 1922 - Steven Hill was born. American actor.
• 1923 - The United States begins the first transcontinental air mail route.
• 1924 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
• 1925 - Edward Gorey was born (d. 2000). American illustrator.
• 1925 - Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt dies (b. 20 July 1836). English physician, the inventor of the short clinical thermometer.
• 1926 - Kenneth Williams was born (d. 1988). English actor.
• 1926 - José Bento Travassos was born. Portuguese soccer player.
• 1926 - Bud Yorkin was born. American film director
• 1927 - Guy Mitchell was born. American singer .
• 1928 - Paul Dooley was born. American actor.
• 1928 - Bruce Forsyth was born. British entertainer.
• 1929 - Rebecca Schull was born. American actress.
• 1930 - Marni Nixon was born. American singer.
• 1932 - Edward Kennedy was born. U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 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.
• 1938 - Ishmael Reed was born. American writer
• 1939 - Antonio Machado y Ruiz dies. Spanish poet.
• 1941 - Hipólito Mejía was born. 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.
• 1942 - Aracy Balabanian was born in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul. Brazilian actress.
• 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 was born. German chanceller.
• 1944 - Jonathan Demme was born. American director
• 1944 - Robert Kardashian American lawyer ( for O. J. Simpson) .
• 1944 - Tom Okker was born. Dutch tennis player.
• 1945 - Leslie Charleson was born. American actress.
• 1945 - Elke Grunupp (Elke Maravilha) was born in Leninegrad. Model and actress radicated in Brazil
• 1945 - Arab League forms (Cairo) .
• 1948 - Start of the Czechoslovak Revolution.
• 1949 - Grady the Cow, a 1,200-pound cow gets stuck inside a silo on a farm in Yukon, Oklahoma and garners national media attention.
• 1949 - Olga Morozova was born. Russian tennis player
• 1949 - Niki Lauda was born. Austrian Formula One driver (world champion 1975, 77, 84) .
• 1950 - Julius Erving was born. American Basketball Hall of Famer.
• 1950 - Miou-Miou (Sylvette Héry) was born. French actress .
• 1950 - Julie Walters was born. American actress.
• 1950 - Ellen Greene was born. American actress.
• 1950 - Lenny Kuhr was born. Dutch singer and Eurovision Song Contest winner.
• 1952 - Bill Frist was born. American politician..
• 1953 - William Petersen was born. American actor.
• 1955 - Tim Young was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1956 - Elvis Presley enters the music charts for the first time, with "Heartbreak Hotel".
• 1958 - Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
• 1959 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
• 1959 - Kyle MacLachlan was born. American actor .
• 1961 - Nick LaRocca dies (b. 1889). jazz musician.
• 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. Fijian golfer.
• 1964 - President Kwame Nkrumah declares a one-party state in Ghana.
• 1965 - Pat LaFontaine was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1965 - Felix Frankfurter dies (b. 1882). Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
• 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.
• 1966 - Rachel Dratch was born. American actress and comedienne.
• 1966 - Brian Greig was born. Australian politician.
• 1966 - Gonçalves (Marcelo Gonçalves Costa Lopes) was born. Brazilian soccer player (Flamengo)
• 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. American actress.
• 1968 - Bradley Nowell was born (d. 1996). American musician and singer for Sublime.
• 1968 - Peter Arno dies (b. 1904). American cartoonist.
• 1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin wins a United States thoroughbred horse race making history as the first woman to do so.
• 1969 - Byron Stroud was born. American bassist (Fear Factory)
• 1971 - Lea Salonga was born. Filipina actress and singer
• 1972 - Claudia Pechstein was born. German speed skater.
• 1972 - Michael Chang was born. American tennis player.
• 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 - Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) summit conference starts in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries are attending. Twenty-two heads of state and government participate.
• 1974 - Pakistán reconoce a Bangla Desh.
• 1974 - Portugal and the future (Portugal e o Futuro) by General António de Spínola, is published / Portugal e o Futuro escrito pelo general António de Spínola é publicado.
• 1974 - James Blunt was born. British musician.
• 1975 - É abolida a Dissertação de Licenciatura na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Clássica de Lisboa.
• 1975 - Chris Moyles was born. British DJ
• 1975 - Drew Barrymore was born in Los Angeles, California. American actress .
• 1976 - Angela Baddeley dies (b. 1904). English actress.
• 1976 - Florence Ballard dies (b. 1943). Singer with The Supremes.
• 1979 - Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
• 1979 - Brett Emerton was born. Australian footballer.
• 1979 - Debora Falabella was born in Belo Horizonte. Brazilian actress.
• 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 and graphic artist.
• 1982 - Jenna Haze was born. American erotic actress.
• 1983 - Sir Adrien Boult dies (b. 1889). English conductor.
• 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 (b. 1902). American writer.
• 1985 - Salvador Espriu dies in Barcelona (b. 1913). Spanish poet.
• 1985 - Alexander Scourby dies (b. 1913). American actor.
• 1985 - Efrem Zimbalist dies (b. 1889). Russian violinist.
• 1986 - Una revuelta popular derroca al dictador filipino Ferdinand Marcos, que cuatro días después se exilia a Hawaii.
• 1987 - Andy Warhol dies (b. 1928). American pop artist, director, writer.
• 1991 - Iraq begins setting fire to Kuwait's oil installations.
• 1994 - Papa John Creech dies. American 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 (b. 1946). Sopanish politician.
• 2002 - A MH-47E Chinook helicopter crashes into the ocean near the Philippines killing all 10 aboard.
• 2002 - Chuck Jones dies (b. 1912). American animator.
• 2002 - Jonas Savimbi dies (b. 1934). Angolan rebel leader.
• 2003 - Kurt Gscheidle dies (b. 16 Dec 1924). German politician.
• 2004 - Andy Seminick dies (b. 1920). Baseball player, catcher and last survivor of the 1950 Phillies' "Whiz Kids".
• 2004 - Roque Máspoli dies (b. 1917). Legendary Uruguayan goalkeeper.
• 2005 - Zdzisław Beksiński dies (b. 1929). Polish artist.
• 2005 - Simone Simon dies (b. 1910). French actress.
• 2005 - Lee Eun Ju dies (b. 1980). Korean actress.