Today in History
22nd February
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22nd February |
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| 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 | ||
| 1370 Robert II succeeded his uncle, David II, as King of Scotland, inaugurating the Stuart dynasty. |
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| 1495 French King Charles VIII enters Naples to claim crown | ||
| 1512 Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer of the New World, died. German cartographer Martin Waldseemuller suggested giving his name to the American continents. | ||
| 1561 William of Orange appointed viceroy of Burgundy/Charolais | ||
| 1630 Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving | ||
| 1656 New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site | ||
| 1732 George Washington, U.S. soldier, statesman and first president, born. He defeated the British commander Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781, sealing victory in the War of Independence. | ||
| 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 Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland | ||
| 1784 The Empress of China, first trading ship sent to China from the United States, set sail from New York on this day, arriving in China on August 28. | ||
| 1787 In France, the Assembly of Notables met for the first time. | ||
| 1819 United States acquired Florida from Spain under the terms of an accord signed by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams and Spanish minister Don Luis de Onis. |
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| 1825 Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary | ||
| 1825 In the United States, a pact with Colombia to suppress the African slave trade became the first treaty to be rejected by the Senate. | ||
| 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 Battle of Buena Vista: US troops beat Mexican army | ||
| 1847 In the American-Mexican War, 4,500 U.S. forces under Gen. Zachary Taylor defeated 18,000 Mexicans at the battle of Buena Vista and thus held the heights guarding the Angostura Pass. | ||
| 1862 Jefferson Davis inaugurated as president of the Confederate States of America. | ||
| 1865 Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery | ||
| 1879 Frank Winfield Woolworth opened his first "Five Cent Store" store in Utica, New York. | ||
| 1888 John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers NY) | ||
| 1900 Battle at Wynne's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army) | ||
| 1900 Hawaii became a US territory | ||
| 1913 Francisco Madero, revolutionary president of Mexico, was assassinated by the military, along with vice-president Pino Suarez. | ||
| 1915 Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war | ||
| 1917 German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships | ||
| 1918 Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia | ||
| 1923 Transcontinental airmail service begins | ||
| 1924 In the United States, Calvin Coolidge became the first president to broadcast from the White House. The speech was broadcast on 42 stations. | ||
| 1927 Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum | ||
| 1936 Construction on Ypenburg Neth airport begins | ||
| 1939 Netherlands recognizes Franco-regime in Spain | ||
| 1940 Finnish troops vacate Koivisto island | ||
| 1940 German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578 | ||
| 1941 German assault on El Agheila Libya | ||
| 1941 IG Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp | ||
| 1941 Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam | ||
| 1944 US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem & Nijmegen by mistake/800+ die | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1955 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail | ||
| 1958 Egypt & Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR) | ||
| 1958 Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes | ||
| 1965 USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test) | ||
| 1966 Ugandan Prime Minister Milton Obote took full powers and had five ministers arrested. | ||
| 1967 Forces of the United States and South Vietnam launched Operation Junction City, the biggest combined operation of the Vietnam War, attacking Communist forces in Tayninh Province north of Saigon. | ||
| 1967 Indonesia's President Achmad Sukarno surrendered all power to premier General Suharto, remaining president in name only. | ||
| 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 US & China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing & Wash DC | ||
| 1974 Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators | ||
| 1979 The Caribbean island of St. Lucia gained full independence from Britain after 165 years. It became the 40th member state of the Commonwealth. | ||
| 1980 Afghanistan declares martial law | ||
| 1980 The Israeli government introduced a new currency, the shekel, which replaced the Israeli pound. | ||
| 1983 Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India | ||
| 1983 Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 1500m free style swimming record | ||
| 1987 Andy Warhol, U.S. pop artist, died. "Pop Art," recreations of everyday objects, found its most famous expression in Warhol's Campbell soup-can label reproduction. | ||
| 1991 In the Gulf War, the United States gave Iraq 24 hours to withdraw from Kuwait or face an all-out ground war. | ||
| 1996 A court found Cambodian Prince Norodom Sirivudh, King Norodom Sihanouk's exiled half-brother, guilty of criminal conspiracy and illegal weapons possession and sentenced him in his absence to 10 years in jail. | ||