On this day in History - Feb. 22

• 1295 BCE - 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.
• 1071 - Arnulf III, Count of Flanders dies killed in battle (b. c. 1055).
• 1111 - Roger Borsa dies. King of Sicily.
• 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.
• 1371 - King David II of Scotland dies (b. 1324).
• 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.
• 1627 - Olivier van Noort dies (b. 1558). Dutch navigator.
  
• 1632 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
• 1674 - Jean Chapelain dies (b. 1595). French writer.
• 1680 - Catherine Monvoisin dies (b.c. 1640). French sorceress.
• 1690 - Charles Le Brun dies (b. 1619). French artist.
• 1705 - Peter Artedi was born (d. 1735). Swedish naturalist.
• 1714 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny was born (d. 1795). French historian.
• 1727 - Francesco Gasparini dies (b. 1661). Italian composer.
  
• 1731 - Frederik Ruysch dies (b. 1638). Dutch physician and anatomist.
• 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).
• 1732 - Francis Atterbury dies (b. 1663). English bishop and man of letters.
• 1742 - Charles Rivington dies (n. 1688). English publisher.
  
• 1744 - War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon began.
• 1745 - João de Sousa Carvalho was born in Estremoz (d. 1799 or 1800). Portuguese composer.
• 1756 - Georg Friedrich von Martens was born (d. 1821). German diplomat.
• 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.
• 1806 - Józef Kremer was born (d. 1875). Polish messianistic philosopher.
• 1816 - Adam Ferguson dies (b. 1723). Scottish philosopher and historian.
• 1817 - Carl Wilhelm Borchardt was born (d. 1880). German mathematician.
• 1819 - By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
• 1819 - James Russell Lowell was born (d. 1891). American poet and essayist.
• 1824 - Pierre Janssen was born (d. 1907). French astronomer.
• 1825 - Russia and United Kingdom establish the borders between Canada and Alaska.
• 1825 - Jean Baptiste Salpointe was born (d. 1898). Second Archbishop of Santa Fe.
  
• 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.
• 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.
• 1864 - Jules Renard was born (d. 1910). French author.
• 1865 - Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery.
• 1874 - Bill Klem was born (d. 1951). Major League Baseball Hall of Fame umpire.
• 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.
• 1881 - Joseph B. Ely was born (d. 1956). 52nd Governor of Massachusetts.
• 1882 - Serbian kingdom refounded.
• 1882 - Eric Gill was born (d. 1940). British sculptor.
• 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.
• 1888 - Owen Brewster was born (d. 1961). U.S. Senator from Maine.
• 1889 - President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
• 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.
• 1890 - Carl Heinrich Bloch dies (b. 1834). Danish painter.
• 1890 - John Jacob Astor III dies (b. 1822). American businessman.
  
• 1891 - Vlas Chubar was born (d. 1939). Soviet politician.
• 1892 - Edna St. Vincent Millay was born (d. 1950). American writer.
• 1892 - Herman Koeckemann dies (b. 1828). German Catholic prelate.
  
• 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.
• 1897 - Karol Świerczewski was born (d. 1947). Polish general.
• 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 - Hawaii pasa a ser territorio de los Estados Unidos.
• 1900 - Luis Buñuel was born (d. 1983). Spanish-born film director.
• 1902 - Fritz Strassmann was born (d. 1980). German physicist.
• 1903 - Morley Callaghan was born (d. 1990). Canadian writer.
• 1903 - Ain-Ervin Mere was born (d. 1969). Estonian Nazi.
• 1903 - Robert Weede was born (d. 1972). American baritone.
• 1903 - Morley Callaghan was born (d. 1990). Canadian writer.
• 1903 - Frank Plumpton Ramsey was born (d. 1903). British mathematician.
• 1903 - Hugo Wolf dies (b. 1860). Austrian composer.
  
• 1904 - UK recognises the South Orkney Islands as part of Argentina, in 1908 claims them again.
• 1904 - Leslie Stephen dies (b. 1832). English writer and critic.
  
• 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.
• 1911 - Bill Baker was born (d. 2006). Baseball player.
• 1912 - A telegrafia sem fios é introduzida em Portugal.
• 1912 - Manuel Laranjeira dies (suicde) (b. 17 Aug 1877). Portuguese poet.
• 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.
• 1913 - Buddy Tate was born (d. 2001). American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.
• 1913 - Ferdinand de Saussure dies (b. 1857). Swiss linguist.
  
• 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 - World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
• 1917 - Jane Bowles was born (d. 1973). American writer and playwright.
• 1918 - Sid Abel wasd born (d. 2000). Canadian hockey player.
• 1918 - Charlie Finley was born (d. 1996). American sports entrepreneur.
• 1918 - Don Pardo was born. American radio and television announcer.
• 1918 - Robert Wadlow was born (d. 1940). Tallest person in history.
• 1920 - In Emeryville, California, the first dog race track to employ an imitation rabbit opens.
• 1921 - Giulietta Masina was born (d. 1994). Italian actress.
• 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 - Jesús Iglesias was born (d. 2005). Argentine racing driver.
• 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.
• 1923 - Théophile Delcassé dies (b. 1852). French statesman.
  
• 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 - Bud Yorkin was born. American film director.
• 1926 - Kenneth Williams was born (d. 1988). English actor.
• 1926 - José Bento Travassos was born. Portuguese football player.
• 1927 - Guy Mitchell was born. American singer.
• 1928 - Paul Dooley was born. American actor.
• 1928 - Bruce Forsyth was born. British entertainer.
• 1928 - Clarence 13X was born (d. 1969). Founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths.
• 1929 - James Hong was born. Chinese American actor.
• 1929 - Rebecca Schull was born. American actress.
• 1930 - James McGarrell was born. American painter.
• 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.
• 1933 - Katharine, Duchess of Kent was born.
• 1933 - Bobby Smith was born. English footballer.
• 1934 - Sparky Anderson was born. Baseball Hall of Fame manager.
• 1934 - Willem Kes dies (b. 1856). Dutch conductor.
  
• 1936 - Ernie K-Doe was born (d. 2001). American singer.
• 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.
• 1938 - Steve Barber was born (d. 2007). American baseball player.
• 1938 - Pierre Vallières was born (d. 1995). Founding member of the Front de libération du Québec.
  
• 1939 - Antonio Machado y Ruiz dies. Spanish poet.
• 1940 - Billy Name was born. American photographer
• 1940 - Johnson Mlambo was born. South African politician.
• 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.
• 1942 - Christine Keeler was born. English model and showgirl.
• 1942 - Stefan Zweig dies (b. 1881). Austrian writer.
  
• 1943 - Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
• 1943 - Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl die executed. Founders of the German resistance group White Rose.
• 1943 - Horst Köhler was born. German chanceller.
• 1943 - Terry Eagleton was born. British theorist.
• 1943 - Christoph Probst dies (b. 1919). German resistance fighter.
  
• 1943 - Hans Scholl dies (b. 1918). German resistance fighter.
• 1943 - Sophie Scholl dies (b. 1921). German resistance fighter.
  
• 1944 - American aircraft bombard the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer by mistake, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
• 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 - Arab League forms (Cairo).
• 1944 - Kasturba Gandhi dies (b. 1869). Wife of Mohandas Gandhi.
  
• 1945 - Leslie Charleson was born. American actress.
• 1945 - Oliver was born (d. 2000). American singer.
• 1945 - Elke Grunupp (Elke Maravilha) was born in Leninegrad. Model and actress radicated in Brazil.
• 1945 - Osip Brik dies (b. 1888). Russian writer.
  
• 1947 - Carol Burns was born. Australian actress.
• 1948 - Start of the Czechoslovak Revolution.
• 1948 - John Ashton was born. American actor.
• 1948 - Joaquim Pessoa was born in Barreiro. Portuguese poet.
• 1948 - Linda de Suza was born in Beringel, Beja. Portuguese-born French singer.
  
• 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 - Niki Lauda was born. Austrian Formula One driver (world champion 1975, 77, 84).
• 1949 - Olga Morozova was born. Russian tennis player.
• 1950 - Ellen Greene was born. American actress
• 1950 - Genesis P-Orridge was born. English musician and performer.
• 1950 - Julie Walters was born. English actress.
• 1950 - Julius Erving was born. American Basketball Hall of Famer.
• 1950 - Miou-Miou (Sylvette Héry) was born. French actress .
• 1950 - Lenny Kuhr was born. Dutch singer and Eurovision Song Contest winner.
• 1952 - Bill Frist was born. American politician.
• 1952 - Cyrinda Foxe was born (d. 2002). American model.
  
• 1953 - William Petersen was born. American actor.
• 1953 - Graham Lewis was born. English musician (Wire).
• 1953 - Nigel Planer was born. British actor.
• 1955 - David Axelrod was born. American political consultant.
• 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.
• 1958 - Abul Kalam Azad dies (b.1888). Indian independence movement leader.
  
• 1959 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
• 1959 - Jiří Čunek was born. Czech politician.
• 1959 - Kyle MacLachlan was born. American actor.
• 1960 - Paul-Émile Borduas dies (b. 1905). Quebec painter.
  
• 1961 - Akira Takasaki was born. Japanese guitarist.
• 1961 - Nick LaRocca dies (b. 1889). American jazz musician.
• 1962 - Lenda Murray was born. American bodybuilder.
  
• 1962 - Les Wallace was born. Scottish darts player.
• 1962 - Steve Irwin was born (d. 2006). Australian herpetologist.
  
• 1962 - Julio Rey Pastor dies. Mathematican.
• 1963 - Devon Malcolm was born. English cricketer.
• 1963 - Vijay Singh was born. Fijian golfer.
• 1964 - President Kwame Nkrumah declares a one-party state in Ghana.
• 1964 - Gigi Fernandez was born. Puerto Rican tennis player.
• 1965 - Chris Dudley was born. American basketball player.
• 1965 - Dean Karr was born. American director and photographer.
• 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 - Aiden Shaw was born. English pornographic actor.
• 1966 - Brian Greig was born. Australian politician.
• 1966 - Gonçalves (Marcelo Gonçalves Costa Lopes) was born. Brazilian football player (Flamengo).
• 1966 - Rachel Dratch was born. American actress and comedienne.
• 1966 - Thorsten Kaye was born. Daytime actor and poet.
• 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.
• 1967 - Alf Poier was born. Austrian comedian.
• 1968 - Bradley Nowell was born (d. 1996). American musician and singer for Sublime.
• 1968 - Elna Reinach was born. South African tennis player.
• 1968 - Jayson Williams was born. American basketball player.
• 1968 - Jeri Ryan was born. American actress.
• 1968 - Shawn Graham was born. Canadian politician.
• 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 - Brian Laudrup was born. Danish footballer.
• 1969 - Byron Stroud was born. American bassist (Fear Factory).
• 1969 - Clinton Kelly was born. American television personality.
• 1969 - Hans Klok was born. Dutch illusionist.
• 1969 - Joaquín Cortés was born. Spanish dancer.
• 1969 - Thomas Jane was born. American actor.
• 1970 - Dominic Roussel was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 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.
• 1973 - Claus Lundekvam was born. Norwegian footballer, currently playing for Southampton F.C.
• 1973 - Einar Kristian Tveitå was born. Norwegian athlete.
• 1973 - Juninho Paulista was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1973 - Katina Paxinou dies (b. 1900). Greek actress.
  
• 1973 - Jean-Jacques Bertrand dies (b. 1916). Quebec politician, Premier of Quebec.
  
• 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 - Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
• 1974 - Chris Moyles was born. English DJ.
• 1974 - James Blunt was born. British musician.
• 1974 - Samuel Byck dies (b. 1930). American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon.
  
• 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 - Faan Rautenbach was born. South African rugby player.
• 1976 - Angela Baddeley dies (b. 1904). English actress.
• 1976 - Florence Ballard dies (b. 1943). Singer with The Supremes.
• 1977 - Hakan Yakin was born. Swiss footballer.
• 1977 - Timo Rose was born. German filmmaker.
• 1979 - Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
• 1979 - Brett Emerton was born. Australian footballer.
• 1979 - Débora Falabella was born in Belo Horizonte. Brazilian actress.
• 1979 - Lee Na-young was born. South Korean 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 (b. 1886). Austria/British painter and graphic artist.
• 1981 - Fredson Camara was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1982 - Jenna Haze was born. American erotic actress.
• 1982 - Robert Weiner, Jr. was born. American water polo player.
• 1982 - Josh Malihabadi dies (b. 1898). Urdu poet of India and Pakistan,
  
• 1983 - Finaliza en Argel la reunión del Consejo Nacional Palestino, con la reelección de Yaser Arafat como presidente de la OLP.
• 1983 – The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
• 1983 - Shaun Tait was born. Australian cricketer.
• 1983 - Sir Adrian Boult dies (b. 1889). English conductor.
  
• 1983 - Romain Maes dies (b. 1913). Belgian cyclist.
• 1984 – Branislav Ivanović was born. Serbian footballer.
• 1984 – Giorgos Printezis was born. Greek basketball player.
• 1984 – Venetian Princess (Jodie-Amy Rivera) was born. YouTube celebrity.
• 1984 - Jessamyn West dies (b. 1902). American writer.
• 1985 - Hameur Bouazza was born. Algerian footballer.
• 1985 - Sean Garballey was born. American politician.
• 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.
• 1985 - Salvador Espriu dies (b. 1913). Spanish poet.
  
• 1986 - Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
• 1986 - Miko Hughes was born. American actor.
• 1986 - Rajon Rondo was born. American basketball player.
• 1987 - Andy Warhol dies (b. 1928). American pop artist, director, writer.
• 1988 - Kevin Borlée was born. Belgian athlete.
• 1988 - Przemysław Kazimierczak was born. Polish footballer.
• 1989 - Alia Sabur wad born. American college educator.
• 1991 - Iraq begins setting fire to Kuwait's oil installations.
• 1994 - Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
• 1994 - Papa John Creach dies (b. 1917) American musician.
• 1995 – The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
• 1995 - Ed Flanders dies (b. 1934). American actor.
  
• 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.
• 1997 - Joseph Aiuppa dies (b. 1907). American gangster.
  
• 1998 - 18 th Winter Olympic Games ended in Nagano, Japan.
• 1998 - Abraham Ribicoff dies (b. 1910). American politician.
  
• 1999 - Menno Oosting dies (b. 1964). Dutch tennis player.
  
• 2000 - Fernando Buesa dies (b. 1946). Spanish politician.
• 2002 - A MH-47E Chinook helicopter crashes into the ocean near the Philippines killing all 10 aboard.
• 2002 - Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
• 2002 - Chuck Jones dies (b. 1912). American animator.
• 2002 - Jonas Savimbi dies (b. 1934). Angolan rebel leader.
• 2002 - Roden Cutler dies (b. 1916). Australian diplomat and war hero.
  
• 2003 - Daniel Taradash dies (b. 1913). American screenwriter.
• 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 - The band Blink-182, due to an "indefinite hiatus", split up.
• 2005 - Lee Eun Ju dies (b. 1980). Korean actress.
  
• 2005 - Simone Simon dies (b. 1910). French actress.
• 2005 - Zdzisław Beksiński dies (b. 1929). Polish artist.
  
• 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.
• 2006 - Anthony Burger dies (b. 1961). American musician and singer.
• 2007 - Dennis Johnson dies (b. 1954). American basketball player.
• 2007 - Howard Verne Ramsey dies (b. 1898). Oldest U.S. veteran of WWI.
• 2007 - George Jellicoe dies (b. 1918). Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords & Special Boat Service veteran.
• 2007 - Samuel Hinga Norman dies (b. 1940). Sierra Leonean alleged war criminal.
• 2008 - Oswaldo Louzada dies (b. 1912). Brazilian actor.
• United States — Washington's Birthday (traditionally).
• Independence Day (Saint Lucia, from United Kingdom in 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).