February 22......

February 22 is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 312 (313 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

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EVENTS

● 1295 BC - The coronation of Ramses II, on whose face the sun's rays fall each year in Abu Simbel temple.

● 0057 - -BC- Origin of Vikrama Samvat Era (India)

● 0606 - Sabinian ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 0896 - Pope Formosa crowned king Arnulf of Karinthie/French emperor

● 1071 - Battle of Cassel-Robert I the Frisian defeats Arnulf III/I

● 1281 - Simon de Brion elected Pope Martinus IV

● 1288 - Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolas IV

● 1300 - Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree

● 1349 - Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland

● 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.

● 1561 - William of Orange appointed viceroy of Burgundy/Charolais

● 1630 - Quadequine introduced popcorn to English colonists at their first Thanksgiving dinner.

● 1632 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.

● 1656 - New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site

● 1680 - Death of Thomas Goodwin, 79, famed English Congregational Nonconformist preacher. His last words were: 'Ah, is this dying? How I have dreaded as an enemy this smiling friend.'

● 1732 - Birth of George Washington, Bridges Creek, Virginia. Rich white slave owner, military man, last U.S. President who could not tell a lie.

● 1744 - Battle at Toulon English-French & Spanish fleet

● 1746 - French troops conquer Brussels

● 1746 - Jakobijnse troops vacate Aberdeen

● 1774 - English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright

● 1775 - 1st US joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at £10

● 1775 - Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland

● 1784 - 1st US ship to trade with China, "Empress of China", sails from New York

● 1805 - Birth of Sarah Flower Adams, English religious writer. Her most enduring verses today comprise the lyrics to the hymn, "Nearer, My God, To Thee."

● 1819 - Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida (Adams-Onís Treaty)

● 1821 - Former Spanish Florida, including unceded Seminole land, becomes U.S. territory.

● 1825 - Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary

● 1828 - Russia & Persia sign Peace of Turkmantsjai

● 1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave Valdivia Chile

● 1836 - Dutch garrison evacuates fort Du Bus New Guinea

● 1847 - Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista - 5,000 American troops drive off 15,000 Mexican.

● 1853 - The Washington University is founded in St. Louis as Eliot Seminary.

● 1854 - 1st meeting of the Republican Party, Michigan

● 1855 - The U.S. Congress voted to appropriate $200,000 for continuance of the work on the Washington Monument. The next morning the resolution was tabled and it would be 21 years before the Congress would vote on funds again. Work was continued by the Know-Nothing Party in charge of the project.

● 1855 - The Pennsylvania State University is founded.

● 1856 - The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

● 1859 - U.S. President Buchanan approved the Act of February 22, 1859, which incorporated the Washington National Monument Society "for the purpose of completing the erection now in progress of a great National Monument to the memory of Washington at the seat of the Federal Government."

● 1860 - Shoe-making workers of Lynn, MS, strike successfully for higher wages

● 1861 - On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration

● 1864 - 2nd/last day of Battle of Okolona MS

● 1864 - Battle at Dalton, Georgia

● 1864 - Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta) Tennessee

● 1865 - Battle of Wilmington NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals

● 1865 - Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery.

● 1872 - 1st national convention of the Prohibition Party (Columbus OH)

● 1872 - Labor Reform Party formed at Columbus OH

● 1876 - Birth of Gertrude Bonnin (Red Bird), Sioux activist.

● 1876 - Johns Hopkins University opens

● 1876 - Johns Hopkins University is founded in Baltimore, Maryland.

● 1878 - Greenback Labor Party formed (Toledo OH)

● 1879 - In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores.

● 1882 - Serbian kingdom refounded.

● 1885 - The Washington Monument was officially dedicated in Washington, DC. It opened to the public in 1889.

● 1887 - Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati

● 1888 - General Winn led the parade in San Francisco celebrating the passage of California's eight-hour law.

● 1889 - President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.

● 1892 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who personified romantic rebellion, was born.

● 1894 - Marius Monfray dies in Lyons. French anarchist and trade unionist. In November 1886, he was given eight days in prison for organizing an illegal lottery (in support for a colleague on trial). His response, "Vive l'anarchie!," got him two years of prison time for "contempt of court."

● 1898 - Black postmaster lynched, his wife & 3 daughters shot in Lake City, SC

● 1900 - Birth of Meridel LeSueur (1900-1996), writer about working-class women and justice seeker.

● 1900 - Battle at Wynne's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)

● 1900 - Hawaii became a US territory

● 1903 - Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water

● 1904 - UK recognises the South Orkney Islands as part of Argentina, in 1908 claims them again.

● 1906 - Black evangelist William J. Seymour first arrived in Los Angeles and began holding revival meetings. The "Azusa Street Revival" later broke out under Seymour's leadership, in the Apostolic Faith Mission located at 312 Azusa Street in Los Angeles. It was one of the pioneering events in the history of 20th century American Pentecostalism.

● 1907 - 1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London

● 1909 - Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia

● 1912 - J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph

● 1913 - Lowell High School, San Francisco opens (on its 1st campus)

● 1915 - Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.

● 1917 - The Russian Revolution begins with a wave of strikes and protests in Petrograd (St. Petersburg).

● 1917 - German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships

● 1918 - Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia

● 1920 - In Emeryville, California, the first dog race track to employ an imitation rabbit opens.

● 1921 - Russia - Wave of strikes in Petrograd protesting factory conditions and the discipline of "war communism."

● 1922 - Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin

● 1923 - 1st successful chinchilla farm in US (Los Angeles CA)

● 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.

● 1927 - Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum

● 1928 - Ku Klux Klan announces that, as of today, it would discard its masks and change its name to the "Knights of the Green Forest."

● 1928 - 1st solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler)

● 1932 - Purple Heart award re-instituted

● 1933 - Göring forms SA/SS-police, shoots 40-50

● 1934 - Revolutionary leader Augusto Sandino is assassinated by Somoza's National Guard, Managua, Nicaragua.

● 1935 - Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House

● 1939 - Netherlands recognizes Franco-regime in Spain

● 1940 - Finnish troops vacate Koivisto island

● 1940 - German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578

● 1941 - Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal

● 1941 - German assault on El Agheila Libya

● 1941 - I G Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp

● 1941 - Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam

● 1942 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defense collapses.

● 1944 - American aircraft bombard the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer by mistake, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.

● 1944 - English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'Heaven enters wherever Christ enters, even in this life.'

● 1945 - Arab League forms (Cairo)

● 1945 - British troops take Ramree Island, Burma

● 1945 - Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland

● 1948 - Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die

● 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.

● 1952 - U.S. Air Force F-84 crashes near Pusan, Korea, hitting a power plant, four homes, and a hospital. Fifteen dead, 20 injured.

● 1955 - American tennis star 'Little Mo' to quit; Maureen Connolly, one of America's greatest tennis players, is to retire from the sport after a horse-riding accident.

● 1955 - British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail

● 1956 - Elvis Presley enters the music charts for the first time, with "Heartbreak Hotel".

● 1958 - Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes

● 1958 - Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.

● 1959 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.

● 1965 - USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test)

● 1966 - Barry Bondhus dumps 10 pounds of his own shit on draft files.

● 1966 - Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok & Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew

● 1967 - 25,000 US & S Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border

● 1969 - AFL-CIO Executive Council, meeting in Bal Harbour, Fla., dismisses the concept of "black capitalism" as "apartheid, antidemocratic nonsense."

● 1969 - One thousand students and 200 faculty rally protesting presidential appointment at Rice University.

● 1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin wins a United States thoroughbred horse race making history as the first woman to do so.

● 1969 - The last time all four Beatles were together for a recording session.

● 1971 - Lieutenant General Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria

● 1972 - IRA bomb kills six at Aldershot barracks; Five women and an army priest are killed in an IRA bomb attack on army premises in Hampshire.

● 1972 - Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir & Prime Minister of Qatar

● 1972 - President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing

● 1973 - Israeli fighter planes shoot down a civilian Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 killing 108

● 1973 - Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the United States and the People's Republic of China agree to establish liaison offices.

● 1974 - Sam Lovejoy topples weather tower for proposed nuclear power plant, Montague, Massachusetts. First act of civil disobedience against nuclear power in U.S.

● 1974 - Hearst 'ransom' provokes violence; Fighting breaks out around food distribution points in California as newspaper tycoon Randolph Hearst pays a $2 million ransom for his kidnapped daughter Patty.

● 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 - 44-year-old Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.

● 1974 - Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators

● 1977 - Following a trade-union open meeting in Naples, Italy, luxury shops are plundered.

● 1978 - 2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly TN

● 1979 - Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.

● 1980 - American Presbyterian apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'None of us are normal, even after we are Christians if we mean by that being perfect. What is possible, however, is for us to live in the fullness of life in the circle of who we are, constantly pressing on the border lines to try to take further steps.'

● 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 - Afghanistan declares martial law

● 1982 - NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for New York governor (unsuccessful)

● 1983 - Harold Washington wins Chicago's Democratic mayoral primary

● 1983 - Four years after the Three-Mile-Island nuclear power plant meltdown, the Salem-One reactor in Massachusetts almost causes another disaster when its automatic-shutdown system fails. The circuit breakers are supposed to trigger control rods that shut down the reactor. They were designed to be oiled every six months, but an investigation reveals they have been lubricated only once in the past seven years -- and the wrong lubricant was used.

● 1983 - Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India

● 1984 - The U.S. Census Bureau statistics showed that the state of Alaska was the fastest growing state of the decade with an increase in population of 19.2 percent.

● 1986 - Filipino coup leaders tell Marcos to go; Two senior members of the government take refuge in the defence ministry building after demanding President Marcos step down following controversial elections.

● 1987 - Pop artist Andy Warhol died at age 58.

● 1989 - 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)

● 1989 - In the apex of the Embarrassing Eighties, Bobby McFerron's "Don't Worry, Be Happy" wins the Grammy award for Song of the Year.

● 1989 - UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"

● 1989 - US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals"

● 1989 - Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress

● 1991 - Bush & US Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hours to begin Kuwait withdrawal

● 1992 - Ceasefire agreed in Croatia.

● 1993 - The U.N. Security Council approved creation of an international war crimes tribunal to punish those responsible for atrocities in the former Yugoslavia.

● 1994 - The U.S. Justice Department charged Aldrich Ames and his wife with selling national secrets to the Soviet Union. Ames was later convicted to life in prison. Ames' wife received a 5-year prison term.

● 1995 - Britain and Northern Ireland announce peace plan.

● 1995 - Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters

● 1995 - Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km)

● 1996 - STS 75 (Columbia 19), launches into orbit

● 1997 - Nearly 100,000 march in Paris against new anti-immigration bill sponsored by fascist far right.

● 1997 - Scottish scientist Ian Wilmut and colleagues announced that an adult sheep had been successfully cloned. Dolly, the first cloned sheep to be born was born in July 1996.

● 2001 - A U.N. war crimes tribunal convicted three Bosnian Serbs on charges of rape and torture in the first case of wartime sexual enslavement to go before an international court.

● 2002 - Police in San Diego arrested David Westerfield in connection with the disappearance of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam. (Westerfield was later convicted of kidnapping and murder and sentenced to death.)

● 2002 - In the Philippines, An MH-47E Chinook helicopter crashed into the ocean. All 10 men aboard were killed.

● 2002 - Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.

● 2005 - A Virginia man was charged with plotting with al-Qaida to kill President George W. Bush. (Ahmed Omar Abu Ali was later convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison.)

● 2006 - Insurgents destroyed the golden dome of one of Iraq's holiest Shiite shrines, the Askariya mosque in Samarra, setting off an unprecedented spasm of sectarian violence.

● 2006 - Dushanbe synagogue demolished.

● 2006 - At least six men stage Britain's biggest ever robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

BIRTHS

● 1040 - Rashi, French rabbi and commentator (d. 1105)

● 1403 - Charles VII of France, King of France from 1422 to 1461 (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, 1st President of the United States. (d. 1799)

● 1778 - Rembrandt Peale, American artist (d. 1860)

● 1788 - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (d. 1860)

● 1796 - Alexis Bachelot, French missionary (d. 1838)

● 1796 - Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1874)

● 1806 - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875)

● 1817 - Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)

● 1819 - James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (d. 1891)

● 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 co-founder of the Social Democratic Party (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)

● 1874 - Bill Klem, Major League Baseball Hall of Fame umpire (d. 1951)

● 1878 - Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)

● 1880 - Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)

● 1882 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (d. 1940)

● 1883 - Marguerite Clark, American silent film actress (d. 1940)

● 1886 - Hugo Ball, German author and poet (d. 1927)

● 1887 - Ksawery Tartakower, Polish chess player (d. 1956)

● 1888 - Owen Brewster, U.S. Senator from Maine (d. 1961)

● 1889 - Olave Baden-Powell, English Chief Girl Guide (d. 1977)

● 1891 - Vlas Chubar, Soviet politician (d. 1939)

● 1892 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, American writer (d. 1950)

● 1892 - David Dubinsky, Russian-born American labor leader (d. 1982)

● 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 - Sean O'Faolain, Irish short-story writer and teacher (d. 1991)

● 1902 - Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (d. 1980)

● 1903 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (d. 1990)

● 1903 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)

● 1904 - Peter Hurd, American painter, printmaker and illustrator (d. 1984)

● 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, baseball player (d. 2006)

● 1914 - Renato Dulbecco, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate

● 1918 - Sid Abel, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)

● 1918 - Charlie Finley, American sports entrepreneur (d. 1996)

● 1918 - Don Pardo, American radio and television announcer (''Saturday Night Live'' & "Rowan and Martin's Laugh In")

● 1918 - Robert Wadlow, tallest person in history (d. 1940)

● 1921 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa, ruler of the Central African Republic (d. 1996)

● 1921 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)

● 1921 - Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (d. 1994)

● 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

● 1929 - Rebecca Schull, American actress

● 1930 - Marni Nixon, American singer

● 1932 - Ted Kennedy, U.S. senator from Massachusetts

● 1933 - Katharine, Duchess of Kent

● 1934 - Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager and Hall of Fame member

● 1936 - J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate

● 1938 - Ishmael Reed, American writer

● 1940 - Johnson Mlambo, South African politician

● 1941 - Hipólito Mejía, President of the Dominican Republic

● 1942 - Christine Keeler, English model and showgirl

● 1944 - Jonathan Demme, American director

● 1944 - Robert Kardashian, American lawyer

● 1944 - Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player

● 1945 - Leslie Charleson, American actress

● 1947 - Carol Burns, Australian actress

● 1948 - John Ashton, Actor

● 1949 - Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver

● 1949 - Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player

● 1950 - Julius Erving, American basketball player and Hall of Fame member

● 1950 - Ellen Greene, American actress

● 1950 - Miou-Miou, French actress

● 1950 - Julie Walters, English actress

● 1950 - Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer

● 1952 - Bill Frist, U.S. senator from Tennessee

● 1953 - Nigel Planer, British actor

● 1955 - Tim Young, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1959 - Kyle MacLachlan, American actor

● 1962 - Steve Irwin, Australian herpetologist (d. 2006)

● 1962 - Lenda Murray, American bodybuilder

● 1963 - Vijay Singh, Fijian golfer

● 1965 - Pat LaFontaine, American ice hockey player and Hall of Fame member

● 1966 - Rachel Dratch, American actress and comedienne (''Saturday Night Live'')

● 1966 - Brian Greig, Australian politician

● 1966 - Aiden Shaw, British pornographic actor

● 1967 - Alf Poier, Austrian comedian

● 1968 - Bradley Nowell, American musician (d. 1996)

● 1968 - Jeri Ryan, American actress ("Shark," "Boston Public," and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine")

● 1969 - Byron Stroud, American bassist

● 1969 - Thomas Jane, Actor

● 1970 - Dominic Roussel, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1971 - Jose Solano, Actor

● 1971 - Lea Salonga, Filipina actress and singer

● 1972 - Claudia Pechstein, German speed skater

● 1972 - Michael Chang, American tennis player

● 1974 - James Blunt, British musician

● 1974 - Chris Moyles, British DJ

● 1975 - Liza Huber, Actress (''Passions'')

● 1975 - Drew Barrymore, American actress

● 1976 - Faan Rautenbach, South African rugby player

● 1977 - James Blunt, Singer

● 1979 - Brett Emerton, Australian footballer

● 1979 - Lee Na-young, South Korean actress

● 1980 - Fredson Camara, Brazilian footballer

● 1982 - Robert Weiner, Jr., water polo player

● 1982 - Jenna Haze, American actress

● 1986 - Miko Hughes, American actor

● 1988 - Maiara Walsh, American actress

● 1989 - Anna Sundstrand, Swedish singer and model

● 1990 - Daniel E. Smith, Actor (''John Q.'')

DEATHS

● 965 - Odo, Duke of Burgundy (b. 944)

● 1071 - Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (killed in battle) (bc. 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 (bc. 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)

● 1919 - Julia, Princess of Serbia (b. 1831)

● 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 - Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1921)

● 1945 - Osip Brik, Russian writer (b. 1888)

● 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)

● 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)

● 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)

● 2000 - Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (b. 1946)

● 2002 - Chuck Jones, American animator (b. 1912)

● 2002 - Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel leader (b. 1934)

● 2002 - Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat and war hero (b. 1916)

● 2003 - Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (b. 1913)

● 2004 - Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)

● 2004 - Andy Seminick, 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)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● Chair of St. Peter at Antioch
● St. Aristion
● St. Athanasius
● St. Baradates
● St. Elwin
● Bl. St. Isabel of France (died 1270)
● St. Margaret of Cortona, Franciscan tertiary
● Martyrs of Arabia
● St. Maximian of Ravenna
● St. Papias
● St. Raynerius
● St. Thalassius & Limuneus
● Bl. John the Saxon

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 9 (Civil Date: February 22)
● Opening of the Relics of St. Innocent of Irkutsk.
● Martyr Nicephorus of Antioch.
● Hieromartyrs Marcellus, Bishop of Sicily, Philagrius, Bishop of Cyprus, and Pancratius, Bishop of Taormina.
● Martyr Peter Damascene.
● Saints Nicephorus and Gennadius, monks of Vazheozersk (Vologda).
● St. Pancratius, hieromonk of the Kiev Caves.
● Saints Aemilianus and Braccchio of Tours (Gaul).
● Repose of Maria, desert-dweller of Olonets (1860).

● United States — Washington's Birthday (traditionally).

● 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.

● British Commonwealth : Girl Guides Thinking Day (1857)

● Central African Republic : President's Birthday

● Egypt, Syria : Unity Day (1958)

● India : Mothers Day

● México : National Mourning Day (Francisco I Madero-1913)

● Qatar : Amir's Assumption of Amirship (1972)

● St Lucia : Independence Day (1979)

● Virgin Island : Donkey Races Day

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● World : Brotherhood Day (1934) - - - - - ( Sunday )


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

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