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Events on the 22nd of February in history

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22 Feb 0057 -BC- Origin of Vikrama Samvat Era (India)
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22 Feb 0606 Sabinian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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22 Feb 0705 Empress Wu Zetian abdicates the throne, restoring the Tang dynasty.
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22 Feb 0896 Pope Formosa crowned king Arnulf of Karinthie/French emperor
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22 Feb 1071 Battle of Cassel-Robert I the Frisian defeats Arnulf III/I
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22 Feb 1281 Simon de Brion elected Pope Martinus IV
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22 Feb 1288 Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolas IV
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22 Feb 1300 Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree
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22 Feb 1316 Battle of Picotin between Ferdinand of Majorca and the forces of Matilda of Hainaut
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22 Feb 1349 Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland
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22 Feb 1371 Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
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22 Feb 1495 King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
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22 Feb 1495 French King Charles VIII enters Naples to claim the crown
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22 Feb 1561 William of Orange appointed viceroy of Burgundy/Charolais
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22 Feb 1630 Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving
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22 Feb 1632 Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
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22 Feb 1651 St. Peter's Flood: A storm surge floods the Frisian coast, drowning 15,000 people.
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22 Feb 1656 New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site
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22 Feb 1744 War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
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22 Feb 1744 Battle at Toulon English-French & Spanish fleet
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22 Feb 1746 French troops conquer Brussels
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22 Feb 1746 Jakobijnse troops vacate Aberdeen
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22 Feb 1774 English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright
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22 Feb 1775 1st US joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at
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22 Feb 1775 Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland
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22 Feb 1784 1st US ship to trade with China, "Empress of China, " sails from New York
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22 Feb 1797 The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
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22 Feb 1819 By the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
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22 Feb 1819 Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida (Adams-On
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22 Feb 1821 Greek War of Independence: Alexander Ypsilantis crosses the Prut river at Sculeni into the Danubian Principalities.
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22 Feb 1821 Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million
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22 Feb 1825 Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary
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22 Feb 1828 Russia & Persia sign Peace of Turkmantsjai
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22 Feb 1835 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave Valdivia Chile
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22 Feb 1836 Dutch garrison evacuates fort Du Bus New Guinea
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22 Feb 1847 Mexican–American War: The Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans.
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22 Feb 1847 Battle of Buena Vista US troops beat Mexican army
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22 Feb 1848 The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins.
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22 Feb 1853 Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
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22 Feb 1854 1st meeting of the Republican Party, Michigan
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22 Feb 1855 The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania)
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22 Feb 1856 The United States Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh.
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22 Feb 1856 1st national meeting of the Republican Party (Pittsburgh)
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22 Feb 1858 Dion Boucicault's "Jessie Brown" premieres in New York NY
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22 Feb 1860 Organized baseball played in San Francisco for the 1st time
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22 Feb 1860 Shoe-making workers of Lynn MS, strike successfully for higher wages
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22 Feb 1861 On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration
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22 Feb 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.
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22 Feb 1864 2nd / last day of Battle of Okolona, Mississippi
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22 Feb 1864 Battle at Dalton, Georgia
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22 Feb 1864 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta) Tennessee
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22 Feb 1865 Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery
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22 Feb 1865 Battle of Wilmington NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals
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22 Feb 1872 The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
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22 Feb 1872 1st national convention of the Prohibition Party (Columbus OH)
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22 Feb 1872 Labor Reform Party formed at Columbus OH
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22 Feb 1876 Johns Hopkins University opens
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22 Feb 1878 Greenback Labor Party formed (Toledo OH)
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22 Feb 1879 1st 5 cent and 10 cent store opened by Frank W Woolworth (Utica NY)
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22 Feb 1879 In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
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22 Feb 1879 1st 5
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22 Feb 1882 With 120 miles James Saunders wins NYC's 24 hour race & $100 prize
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22 Feb 1887 Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati
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22 Feb 1888 John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers NY)
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22 Feb 1889 United States President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
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22 Feb 1889 Dakotas, Montana & Washington admitted to the union
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22 Feb 1889 President Cleveland signs bill to admit Dakotas, Montana & Washington state
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22 Feb 1892 "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde premieres at St James Theater (London)
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22 Feb 1892 Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms
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22 Feb 1898 Black postmaster lynched, his wife and 3 daughters shot in Lake City, South Carolina
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22 Feb 1899 Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
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22 Feb 1900 Battle at Wynne's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
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22 Feb 1900 Hawaii became a US territory
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22 Feb 1903 Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water
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22 Feb 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.
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22 Feb 1906 Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in Los Angeles, California
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22 Feb 1907 1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London
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22 Feb 1907 Leonid N Andreyev's "Zhizn Cheloveka" premieres in St Petersburg
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22 Feb 1909 The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
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22 Feb 1909 Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia
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22 Feb 1912 J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph - 161.29 km/h
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22 Feb 1913 Lowell High School, San Francisco opens (on its 1st campus)
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22 Feb 1915 Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war
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22 Feb 1915 World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
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22 Feb 1917 German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships
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22 Feb 1918 Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia
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22 Feb 1920 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville, California)
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22 Feb 1921 After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.
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22 Feb 1922 Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin
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22 Feb 1923 1st successful chinchilla farm in US (Los Angeles, California)
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22 Feb 1923 Transcontinental airmail service begins
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22 Feb 1924 U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
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22 Feb 1924 1st presidential radio address (Calvin Coolidge)
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22 Feb 1927 ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine
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22 Feb 1927 Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum
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22 Feb 1928 1st solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler)
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22 Feb 1932 Purple Heart award re-instituted
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22 Feb 1933 G
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22 Feb 1934 "It Happened One Night" opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall
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22 Feb 1935 Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
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22 Feb 1936 Construction on Ypenburg Netherlands airport begins
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22 Feb 1939 Netherlands recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
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22 Feb 1940 Finnish troops vacate Koivisto island
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22 Feb 1940 German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578
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22 Feb 1941 Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal
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22 Feb 1941 German assault on El Agheila Libya
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22 Feb 1941 I G Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp
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22 Feb 1941 Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam
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22 Feb 1941 Paul Creston's 1st Symphony, premieres
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22 Feb 1941 Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man" premieres
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22 Feb 1942 World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
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22 Feb 1943 World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
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22 Feb 1944 US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem and Nijmegen by mistake / 800+ die
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22 Feb 1944 World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Krivoi Rog.
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22 Feb 1944 World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
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22 Feb 1945 Arab League forms (Cairo)
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22 Feb 1945 British troops take Ramree Island, Burma
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22 Feb 1945 Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland
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22 Feb 1948 Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
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22 Feb 1948 Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die
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22 Feb 1950 Brockway and Weinstock publish "Men of Music" (rev ed)
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22 Feb 1950 Brockway & Weinstock publish "Men of Music" (revised edition)
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22 Feb 1955 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail
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22 Feb 1956 Elvis Presley's 1st hit in Billboard's top 10 "Heartbreak Hotel"
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22 Feb 1956 1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht Portsmouth vs Newcastle United
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22 Feb 1957 Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột.
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22 Feb 1957 Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win
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22 Feb 1957 Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958
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22 Feb 1958 "Portotino" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 3 performances
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22 Feb 1958 Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
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22 Feb 1958 Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days
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22 Feb 1958 Egypt & Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR)
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22 Feb 1958 Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes
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22 Feb 1959 Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
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22 Feb 1959 1st Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH)
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22 Feb 1962 Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free throw attempts
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22 Feb 1963 Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)
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22 Feb 1964 Beatles arrive back in England after their 1st US visit
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22 Feb 1965 USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test)
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22 Feb 1966 Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok & Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew
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22 Feb 1967 25,000 US and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border
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22 Feb 1967 Barbara Garson's "MacBird" premieres in New York NY
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22 Feb 1967 Sling-shot goal post & 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL
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22 Feb 1968 Rock group Genesis release their 1st record "Silent Sun"
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22 Feb 1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major US track
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22 Feb 1969 1st female US thoroughbred pari-mutuel jockey win (Barbara Jo Rubin)
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22 Feb 1970 "Charles Aznavour" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 23 performances
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22 Feb 1971 Lieutenant General Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria
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22 Feb 1972 The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
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22 Feb 1972 Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir & Prime Minister of Qatar
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22 Feb 1972 President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing
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22 Feb 1973 US and China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing and Washington DC
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22 Feb 1973 Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
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22 Feb 1973 Israeli fighter planes shoot down a civilian Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 killing 108
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22 Feb 1974 Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
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22 Feb 1974 The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
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22 Feb 1974 Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators
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22 Feb 1976 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
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22 Feb 1978 2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly, Tennessee
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22 Feb 1979 Billy Martin named manager of Oakland Athletics
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22 Feb 1979 Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
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22 Feb 1979 St Lucia gains independence from Britain
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22 Feb 1979 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate & Cat Building is dedicated
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22 Feb 1980 Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3.
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22 Feb 1980 Afghanistan declares martial law
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22 Feb 1980 USA beats USSR in Olympics hockey 4-3 en route to a gold medal
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22 Feb 1981 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic
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22 Feb 1982 New York City Mayor Koch announces he will run for New York Governor (unsuccessful)
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22 Feb 1983 The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
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22 Feb 1983 Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 1500 meter freestyle swimming record
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22 Feb 1983 Harold Washington wins Chicago's Democratic mayoral primary
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22 Feb 1983 Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India
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22 Feb 1984 Brothers Anton & Peter Stastny score 8 points each for NHL Qu
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22 Feb 1986 Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
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22 Feb 1987 Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200 meter indoor (20.36 seconds)
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22 Feb 1988 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 meter (39.10 seconds)
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22 Feb 1989 UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"
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22 Feb 1989 US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, Author of "Satanic Rituals"
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22 Feb 1989 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)
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22 Feb 1989 31st Grammy Awards Don't Worry Be Happy, Faith, Tracy Chapman
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22 Feb 1989 Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress
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22 Feb 1989 New York Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50)
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22 Feb 1990 1st day India vs New Zealand cricket at Auckland New Zealand 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps
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22 Feb 1991 Actor Bill Bixby (57) weds Laura Michael (32)
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22 Feb 1991 Bush & US Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hours to begin Kuwait withdrawal
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22 Feb 1991 Kelli McCarty, 21, (Kansas), crowned 40th Miss USA
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22 Feb 1991 Test Cricket debut of Sanath Jayasuriya, vs New Zealand at Hamilton
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22 Feb 1992 "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" closes at Music Box, New York City
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22 Feb 1992 "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" closes at Music Box NYC
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22 Feb 1992 Barry Diller resigns as CEO of Fox
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22 Feb 1992 Ed McMahon, 69, weds Pamela Hurn, 37
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22 Feb 1992 Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Open Golf Tournament
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22 Feb 1992 Rockers Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) & Courtney Love (Hole), wed
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22 Feb 1993 Vinod Kambli scores 224 vs England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours
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22 Feb 1994 "Les Miserables, " opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya
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22 Feb 1994 Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
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22 Feb 1995 The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
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22 Feb 1995 Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters
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22 Feb 1995 Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km)
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22 Feb 1996 "Bus Stop" opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 29 performances
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22 Feb 1996 Actress Halle Berry files for divorce from David Justice
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22 Feb 1996 STS 75 (Columbia 19), launches into orbit
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22 Feb 1997 In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.
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22 Feb 1997 Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Open
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22 Feb 1998 "King & I, " closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 781 performances
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22 Feb 1998 18th Winter Olympics games close at Nagano Japan
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22 Feb 2002 Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
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22 Feb 2006 At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
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22 Feb 2011 Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests.
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22 Feb 2011 New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake strikes Christchurch, killing 185 people.
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22 Feb 2012 A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.
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22 Feb 2014 President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328-0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion.
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22 Feb 2015 A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people.
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