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

Events

• 1495 – King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
• 1632 – Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
• 1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
• 1797 – The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
• 1819 – By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
• 1847 – Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops drive off 15,000 Mexicans.
• 1855 – The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania)
• 1856 – The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• 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.
• 1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
• 1882 – The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
• 1889 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
• 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.
• 1915 – World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
• 1922 – The British unilaterally declare the independence of Egypt.
• 1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
• 1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
• 1943 – World War II: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
• 1944 – World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
• 1948 – Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
• 1958 – Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
• 1959 – Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
• 1972 – The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
• 1973 – Cold War: Following United States President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
• 1974 – Organisation of the Islamic Conferencesummit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
• 1974 – Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
• 1979 – Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
• 1980 – Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3, in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
• 1983 – The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
• 1986 – Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
• 1994 – Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
• 1995 – The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
• 1997 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
• 2002 – Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
• 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.

Births

• 1040 – Rashi, French rabbi (d. 1105)
• 1403 – Charles VII of France (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, First President of the United States (d. 1799)
• 1756 – Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (d. 1821)
• 1778 – Rembrandt Peale, American artist (d. 1860)
• 1788 – Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (d. 1860)
• 1796 – Alexis Bachelot, French missionary (d. 1837)
• 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)
• 1824 – Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (d. 1907)
• 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 politician (d. 1913)
• 1849 – Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician (d. 1915)
• 1857 – Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English founder of the Scout movement (d. 1941)
• 1857 – Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894)
• 1864 – Jules Renard, French author (d. 1910)
• 1874 – Bill Klem, American baseball umpire (d. 1951)
• 1878 – Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)
• 1879 – Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish physical chemist (d. 1947)
• 1880 – Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
• 1881 – Joseph B. Ely, American politician (d. 1956)
• 1881 – Albin Prepeluh, Slovenian author and politician (d. 1937)
• 1882 – Eric Gill, British sculptor (d. 1940)
• 1883 – Marguerite Clark, American actress (d. 1940)
• 1886 – Hugo Ball, German author and poet (d. 1927)
• 1887 – Ksawery Tartakower, Polish chess player (d. 1956)
• 1888 – Owen Brewster, American politician (d. 1961)
• 1889 – Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (d. 1977)
• 1890 – Beatriz Michelena, Latin-American silent movie star (d. 1942)
• 1891 – Vlas Chubar, Soviet politician (d. 1939)
• 1892 – Edna St. Vincent Millay, American writer (d. 1950)
• 1895 – Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician (d. 1979)
• 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 – Seán Ó Faoláin, Irish author (d. 1991)
• 1902 – Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (d. 1980)
• 1903 – Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (d. 1990)
• 1903 – Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
• 1903 – Robert Weede, American baritone (d. 1972)
• 1906 – Humayun Kabir, Indian educationist and politician (d. 1969)
• 1907 – Sheldon Leonard, American actor (d. 1997)
• 1907 – Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1908 – Sir John Mills, English actor (d. 2005)
• 1908 – Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan president (d. 1981)
• 1911 – Bill Baker, American baseball player (d. 2006)
• 1913 – Buddy Tate, American jazz musician (d. 2001)
• 1914 – Henry Reed, English poet (d. 1986)
• 1914 – Renato Dulbecco, Nobel laureate
• 1917 – Jane Bowles, American playwright (d. 1973)
• 1918 – Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2000)
• 1918 – Charlie Finley, American sports entrepreneur (d. 1996)
• 1918 – Don Pardo, American announcer
• 1918 – Robert Wadlow, American tallest ever-human (d. 1940)
• 1921 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Central African Republic leader (d. 1996)
• 1921 – Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
• 1921 – David Greene, British director (d. 2003)
• 1921 – Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (d. 1994)
• 1922 – Jesús Iglesias, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
• 1923 – Bleddyn Williams, Welsh rugby player (d. 2009)
• 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
• 1928 – Clarence 13X, American religious leader (d. 1969)
• 1928 – Axel Strøbye, Danish actor (d. 2005)
• 1929 – James Hong, American actor
• 1929 – Rebecca Schull, American actress
• 1930 – Marni Nixon, American singer
• 1930 – James McGarrell, American painter
• 1932 – Ted Kennedy, American politician (d. 2009)
• 1933 – Katharine, Duchess of Kent
• 1933 – Bobby Smith, English footballer
• 1934 – Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager
• 1935 – Sven Inge, Swedish artist (d. 2008)
• 1936 – J. Michael Bishop, Nobel laureate
• 1936 – Ernie K-Doe, American singer (d. 2001)
• 1938 – Steve Barber, American baseball player (d. 2007)
• 1938 – Ishmael Reed, American writer
• 1938 – Pierre Vallières, French-Canadian politician (d. 1995)
• 1940 – Johnson Mlambo, South African politician
• 1940 – Billy Name, American photographer
• 1941 – Hipólito Mejía, Dominican politician
• 1941 – Giorgos Arvanitis, Greek cinematographer
• 1942 – Christine Keeler, English model and showgirl
• 1943 – Terry Eagleton, British theorist
• 1943 – Horst Köhler, President of Germany
• 1944 – Jonathan Demme, American director
• 1944 – Robert Kardashian, American lawyer (d. 2003)
• 1944 – Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player
• 1945 – Leslie Charleson, American actress
• 1945 – Oliver, American singer (d. 2000)
• 1947 – Carol Burns, Australian actress
• 1947 – Harvey Mason, Jazz drummer
• 1947 – Frank P. Tomasulo, American film professor and critic
• 1947 – Maurizio De Angelis, Italian musician
• 1948 – John Ashton, American actor
• 1949 – Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver and entrepreneur
• 1949 – Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player
• 1950 – Julius Erving, American basketball player
• 1950 – Ellen Greene, American actress
• 1950 – Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer
• 1950 – Miou-Miou, French actress
• 1950 – Genesis P-Orridge, English musician and performer
• 1950 – Julie Walters, English actress
• 1952 – Cyrinda Foxe, American model (d. 2002)
• 1952 – Bill Frist, American politician
• 1953 – Graham Lewis, English musician (Wire)
• 1953 – Nigel Planer, British actor
• 1955 – David Axelrod, American political consultant
• 1955 – Tim Young, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1955 – Gordon Banks, American guitarist
• 1959 – Jiří Čunek, Czech politician
• 1959 – Kyle MacLachlan, American actor
• 1961 – Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist
• 1962 – Steve Irwin, Australian herpetologist (d. 2006)
• 1962 – Lenda Murray, American bodybuilder
• 1962 – Les Wallace, Scottish darts player
• 1963 – Devon Malcolm, English Cricketer
• 1963 – Vijay Singh, Fijian golfer
• 1964 – Gigi Fernandez, Puerto Rican tennis player
• 1964 – Ed Boon, video game programmer and Mortal Kombat co-creator
• 1965 – Chris Dudley, American basketball player
• 1965 – Dean Karr, American director and photographer
• 1965 – Pat LaFontaine, American ice hockey player
• 1966 – Rachel Dratch, American actress and comedienne
• 1966 – Brian Greig, Australian politician
• 1966 – Thorsten Kaye, German actor
• 1966 – Aiden Shaw, English pornographic actor
• 1967 – Alf Poier, Austrian comedian
• 1968 – Shawn Graham, Canadian politician
• 1968 – Bradley Nowell, American musician (d. 1996)
• 1968 – Elna Reinach, South African tennis player
• 1968 – Jeri Ryan, American actress
• 1968 – Jayson Williams, American basketball player
• 1969 – Joaquín Cortés, Spanish dancer
• 1969 – Thomas Jane, American actor
• 1969 – Clinton Kelly, American TV personality
• 1969 – Hans Klok, Dutch illusionist
• 1969 – Brian Laudrup, Danish footballer
• 1970 – Dominic Roussel, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1970 – Ravi Vakil, Canadian-American mathematician
• 1971 – Lea Salonga, Filipina actress and singer
• 1972 – Michael Chang, American tennis player
• 1972 – Laurence Leboucher, French cyclist
• 1973 – Claus Lundekvam, Norwegian footballer
• 1973 – Juninho Paulista, Brazilian footballer
• 1973 – Einar Kristian Tveitå, Norwegian athlete
• 1974 – James Blunt, English musician
• 1974 – Chris Moyles, English DJ
• 1975 – Drew Barrymore, American actress
• 1976 – Faan Rautenbach, South African rugby player
• 1977 – Timo Rose, German filmmaker
• 1977 – Hakan Yakin, Swiss footballer
• 1978 – Jenny Frost, British singer/presenter/model/DJ (Atomic Kitten)
• 1978 – Peter Madsen, Danish football player
• 1979 – Brett Emerton, Australian footballer
• 1979 – Lee Na-young, South Korean actress
• 1981 – Fredson Camara, Brazilian footballer
• 1982 – Dichen Lachman, Australian Actress
• 1982 – Jenna Haze, American pornographic actress
• 1982 – Robert Weiner, Jr., American water polo player
• 1982 – Shawntae Spencer, American football player
• 1983 – Penny Flame, American pornographic actress
• 1983 – Shaun Tait, Australian cricketer
• 1984 – VenetianPrincess, YouTube celebrity
• 1984 – Branislav Ivanović, Serbian footballer
• 1984 – Giorgos Printezis, Greek basketball player
• 1984 – Tommy Bowe, Irish rugby player
• 1985 – Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer
• 1985 – Sean Garballey, American politician
• 1986 – Miko Hughes, American actor
• 1986 – Rajon Rondo, American basketball player
• 1987 – Han Hyo-joo, South Korean actress and model
• 1988 – Kevin Borlée, Belgian athlete
• 1988 – Przemysław Kazimierczak, Polish footballer
• 1989 – Alia Sabur, American college educator

Deaths

• 965 – Otto, Duke of Burgundy (b. 944)
• 1071 – Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (killed in battle) (b. c. 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 (b. c. 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)
• 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 – Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (b. 1919)
• 1943 – Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1921)
• 1944 – Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mohandas Gandhi (b. 1869)
• 1945 – Osip Brik, Russian writer (b. 1888)
• 1958 – Abul Kalam Azad, Indian independence movement leader (b. 1888)
• 1960 – Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (b. 1905)
• 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)
• 1973 – Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Quebec politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
• 1973 – Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (b. 1900)
• 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)
• 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)
• 1989 – Moisés da Costa Amaral, East Timorese leader, UDT President in the exterior (b. 1938)
• 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)
• 1999 – Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
• 2000 – Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (b. 1946)
• 2002 – Chuck Jones, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
• 2002 – Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel and political leader (b. 1934)
• 2002 – Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat and war hero (b. 1916)
• 2002 – Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963)
• 2003 – Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (b. 1913)
• 2004 – Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
• 2004 – Andy Seminick, American 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)
• 2007 – Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954)
• 2007 – Howard Verne Ramsey, oldest U.S. veteran of WWI (b. 1898)
• 2007 – Samuel Hinga Norman, Sierra Leonean alleged war criminal (b. 1940)
• 2007 – George Jellicoe, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords & Special Boat Service veteran (b. 1918)

Holidays and observances

• Celebrity Day (Church of Scientology)
• Christian Feast Day
  • Blessed Isabelle of France
  • Margaret of Cortona
• Feast of the Chair (Roman Catholic Church)
• Independence Day (Saint Lucia, from United Kingdom in 1979)
• Washington's Birthday, celebrate George Washington's birthday on February 11, 1732. When the Gregorian calendar was adopted in the English Colonies (1752), he opted to begin observing his birthdate anniversary on the equivalent date of 22 February (United States)
• World Thinking Day, also known as "B.-P. day" or "Founder's Day", the shared birthday of the Scouts' founder Sir Robert Baden-Powell and his wife Lady Olave Baden-Powell, the World Chief Guide. (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~ Isaac Asimov

• selected by Kalki

2005

All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity. ~ George Washington (born 22 February 1732)

• selected by Kalki

2006

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. ~ George Washington (born 22 February 1732)

• proposed by Sir John Alexander Macdonald

2007

Promote... as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened. ~ George Washington

• proposed by Kalki

2008

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

• proposed by Kalki

2009

The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support. ~ George Washington

• proposed by Kalki

2010

Suggestions

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. ~ James Russell Lowell

• 3 Kalki 20:02, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 22:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined. ~ James Russell Lowell

• 3 Kalki 20:02, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 22:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart. ~ James Russell Lowell

• 3 Kalki 20:02, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 22:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Lyle 15:54, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

• 3 Kalki 20:02, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 22:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Lyle 15:54, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

• 3 Kalki 20:02, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 22:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Lyle 15:54, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. ~ George Washington

• 3 Kalki 20:02, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 22:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last. ~ George Washington

• 3 Kalki 20:02, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 22:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

• 3 Lyle 15:51, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 23:53, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
• 2 nice analogy; opinions change. Zarbon 05:42, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

• 4 Lyle 15:54, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 23:53, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
• 4 very nice. Zarbon 05:42, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

And I honor the man who is willing to sink
Half his present repute for the freedom to think,
And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak,
Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak.
~ James Russell Lowell (DoB)

• 4 Ningauble 16:26, 14 March 2009 (UTC) Mangy doggerel perhaps, but very memorable.

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends —
It gives a lovely light.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay (DoB)

• 3.5 Ningauble 13:02, 3 May 2009 (UTC) Very popular.

The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky, —
No higher than the soul is high.
The heart can push the sea and land
Farther away on either hand;
The soul can split the sky in two,
And let the face of God shine through.
But East and West will pinch the heart
That can not keep them pushed apart;
And he whose soul is flat — the sky
Will cave in on him by and by.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay (DoB)

• 3.5 Ningauble 13:02, 3 May 2009 (UTC) (Or just the first four lines, either way.)

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From Familypedia

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

Events

• 1295 BCE - The coronation of Ramses II, on whose face the sun's rays fall each year in Abu Simbel temple.
• 1281 - Martin IV becomes Pope.
• 1288 - Nicholas IV becomes Pope.
• 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
• 1632 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
• 1744 - War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
• 1819 - By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
• 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.
• 1855 - The Pennsylvania State University is founded.
• 1856 - The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh.
• 1862 - Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
• 1876 - Johns Hopkins University is founded in Baltimore.
• 1879 - In Utica, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores.
• 1882 - Serbian kingdom refounded.
• 1889 - President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
• 1904 - UK recognises the South Orkney Islands as part of Argentina, in 1908 claims them again.
• 1915 - World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
• 1920 - In Emeryville, the first dog race track to employ an imitation rabbit opens.
• 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.
• 1942 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defense collapses.
• 1943 - Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
• 1944 - American aircraft bombard the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer by mistake, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
• 1948 - Communist coup in Czechoslovakia
• 1958 - Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
• 1959 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
• 1969 - The last time all four Beatles were together for a recording session.
• 1973 - Cold War: Following United States President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
• 1974 - Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) summit conference starts in Lahore. Thirty-seven countries are attending. Twenty-two heads of state and government participate.
• 1974 - Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
• 1979 - Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
• 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".
• 1986 - Start of the 1986 EDSA Revolution in the Philippines.
• 1994 - Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
• 1997 - In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
• 2002 - Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
• 2002 - A MH-47E Chinook helicopter crashes into the ocean near the Philippines, killing all 10 aboard.
• 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.
• 2007 - Norwegian cross country skiers Jens Arne Svartedal and Astrid Jacobsen become the first ever gold medalists of an indoor and a nighttime nordic skiing event at a World Championship or Winter Olympic level by winning their respective men's and women's individual sprint finals in Sapporo, Japan.

Births

• 1040 - Rashi, French rabbi and commentator (d. 1105)
• 1403 - Charles VII of France (d. 1461)
• 1440 - Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (d. 1457)
• 1500 - Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (d. 1564)
• 1612 - George Digby, English statesman (d. 1677)
• 1705 - Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (d. 1735)
• 1714 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (d. 1795)
• 1732 - George Washington, First President of the United States (d. 1799)
• 1756 - Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (d. 1821)
• 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 politician (d. 1913)
• 1849 - Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician (d. 1915)
• 1857 - Robert Baden-Powell, English founder of the Boy Scouts (d. 1941)
• 1857 - Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894)
• 1864 - Jules Renard, French author (d. 1910)
• 1874 - Bill Klem, Major League Baseball Hall of Fame umpire (d. 1951)
• 1878 - Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)
• 1879 - Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish physical chemist (d. 1947)
• 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)
• 1895 - Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician, founder of APRA party (d. 1979)
• 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 - Seán Ó Faoláin, Irish author (d. 1991)
• 1902 - Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (d. 1980)
• 1903 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (d. 1990)
• 1903 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
• 1903 - Robert Weede, American baritone (d. 1972)
• 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)
• 1913 - George Holmes Tate, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (d. 2001)
• 1914 - Renato Dulbecco, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
• 1917 - Jane Bowles, American writer and playwright (d. 1973)
• 1918 - Sid Abel, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)
• 1918 - Charlie Finley, American sports entrepreneur (d. 1996)
• 1918 - Don Pardo, American radio and television announcer
• 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)
• 1922 - Jesús Iglesias, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
• 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
• 1928 - Clarence 13X, founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths (d. 1969)
• 1929 - James Hong, Chinese American actor
• 1929 - Rebecca Schull, American actress
• 1930 - Marni Nixon, American singer
• 1932 - Ted Kennedy, U.S. senator from Massachusetts
• 1933 - Katharine
• 1933 - Bobby Smith, English footballer
• 1934 - Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager
• 1936 - J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
• 1936 - Ernie K-Doe, American singer (d. 2001)
• 1938 - Ishmael Reed, American writer
• 1938 - Pierre Vallières, founding member of the Front de libération du Québec (d. 1995) Jason Chao the man who killed strong arm Daniel
• 1940 - Johnson Mlambo, South African politician
• 1940 - Billy Name, American photographer and Andy Warhol archivist
• 1941 - Hipólito Mejía, President of the Dominican Republic
• 1942 - Christine Keeler, English model and showgirl
• 1943 - Terry Eagleton, British theorist
• 1943 - Horst Köhler, President of Germany
• 1944 - Jonathan Demme, American director
• 1944 - Robert Kardashian, American lawyer
• 1944 - Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player
• 1945 - Leslie Charleson, American actress
• 1945 - Oliver, American singer (d. 2000)
• 1947 - Carol Burns, Australian actress
• 1949 - Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver
• 1949 - Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player
• 1950 - Julius Erving, American basketball player
• 1950 - Ellen Greene, American actress
• 1950 - Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer
• 1950 - Miou-Miou, French actress
• 1950 - Genesis P-Orridge, English performer, musician and artist
• 1950 - Julie Walters, English actress
• 1952 - Bill Frist, U.S. senator from Tennessee
• 1953 - Graham Lewis, English musician (Wire)
• 1953 - Nigel Planer, British actor
• 1955 - Tim Young, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1959 - Jiří Čunek, Czech politician
• 1959 - Kyle MacLachlan, American actor
• 1961 - Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist
• 1962 - Steve Irwin, Australian herpetologist (d. 2006)
• 1962 - Lenda Murray, American bodybuilder
• 1962 - Les Wallace, Scottish darts player
• 1963 - Vijay Singh, Fijian golfer
• 1964 - Gigi Fernandez, Puerto Rican tennis player
• 1966 - Rachel Dratch, American actress and comedienne
• 1966 - Brian Greig, Australian politician
• 1966 - Aiden Shaw, English pornographic actor
• 1967 - Alf Poier, Austrian comedian
• 1968 - Shawn Graham, Canadian politician
• 1968 - Bradley Nowell, American musician (d. 1996)
• 1968 - Jeri Ryan, American actress
• 1969 - Joaquín Cortés, Spanish dancer
• 1969 - Brian Laudrup, Danish footballer
• 1969 - Byron Stroud, American bassist
• 1970 - Dominic Roussel, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1971 - Lea Salonga, Filipina actress and singer
• 1972 - Michael Chang, American tennis player
• 1972 - Claudia Pechstein, German speed skater
• 1973 - Juninho Paulista, Brazilian footballer
• 1973 - Claus Lundekvam, Norwegian footballer, currently playing for Southampton F.C.
• 1973 - Einar Kristian Tveitå, Norwegian athlete
• 1974 - James Blunt, English musician
• 1974 - Chris Moyles, English DJ
• 1975 - Drew Barrymore, American actress
• 1976 - Faan Rautenbach, South African rugby player
• 1979 - Brett Emerton, Australian footballer
• 1979 - Lee Na-young, South Korean actress
• 1980 - Fredson Camara, Brazilian footballer
• 1982 - Jenna Haze, American pornographic actress
• 1982 - Robert Weiner, American water polo player
• 1986 - Miko Hughes, American actor
• 1986 - Rajon Rondo, American basketball player
• 1988 - Przemysław Kazimierczak, Polish footballer
• 1989 - Anna Sundstrand, Original Member Of Swedish Girl Band 'Play'

Deaths

• 965 - Odo (b. 944)
• 1071 - Arnulf III (killed in battle) (b. c.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 (b. c.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)
• 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 - Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (b. 1919)
• 1943 - Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1921)
• 1945 - Osip Brik, Russian writer (b. 1888)
• 1960 - Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (b. 1905)
• 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)
• 1973 - Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Quebec politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
• 1973 - Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (b. 1900)
• 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)
• 1999 - Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
• 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)
• 2002 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963)
• 2003 - Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (b. 1913)
• 2004 - Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
• 2004 - Andy Seminick, American 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)
• 2007 - Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954)
• 2007 - Howard Verne Ramsey, oldest U.S. veteran of WWI (b. 1898)
• 2007 - Samuel Hinga Norman, Sierra Leonean alleged war criminal (b. 1940)
• 2007 - George Jellicoe, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords & Special Boat Service veteran (b. 1918)

Holidays and observances

• United States — Washington's Birthday.
• Saint Lucia — independence (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.

Liturgical feasts

• Roman Catholic Church — Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter.
• Blessed Saint Isabel of France (died 1270)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada