February 22
1371 - Robert II succeeded to the throne of Scotland, beginning the Stuart Dynasty.
1732 - George Washington, the first president of the United States, was born in Westmoreland County in the Virginia Colony.
1819 - Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
1862 - Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as president of the Confederacy.
1865 - Tennessee adopted a new state constitution abolishing slavery.
1879 - Frank Winfield Woolworth opened his first "Five Cent Store" in Utica, New York.
1899 - President Grover Cleveland signed an act paving the way for Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Washington to become states.
1924 - Calvin Coolidge made the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House.
1935 - Airplanes were no longer permitted to fly over the White House.
1967 - More than 25,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, aimed at smashing a Vietcong stronghold near the Cambodian border. (Although the communists were driven out, they later returned.)
1984 - David Vetter, a 12-year-old Texas boy who’d spent most of his life in a plastic bubble because he had no immunity to disease, died 15 days after being removed from the bubble for a bone-marrow transplant.
1987 - Pop artist Andy Warhol died in New York City at age 58.
1997 - Scientists in Scotland announced they had succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named “Dolly.” (Dolly, however, was later put down after a short life marred by premature aging and disease.)
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.
2005 - Buckingham Palace announced that Queen Elizabeth II would not attend the civil marriage ceremony of her son Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles -- but that her absence should not be interpreted as a snub.
2006 - Insurgents destroyed the golden dome of one of Iraq's holiest Shiite shrines, the Askariya mosque in Samarra, setting off a spasm of sectarian violence.
2011 - Somali pirates shot to death four Americans taken hostage on their yacht several hundred miles south of Oman.
2016 - President Barack Obama sent lawmakers an official $1.9 billion request to combat the spread of the Zika virus in Latin America and the U.S. (Congress passed a $1.1 billion package in Sept. 2016.)
2016 - The City Council of Charlotte, North Carolina, voted 7-4 to pass a new law allowing transgender people to choose public bathrooms that corresponded to their gender identity.
2017 - The Trump administration lifted federal guidelines that said transgender students should be allowed to use public school bathrooms and locker rooms matching their chosen gender identity.
2019 - A California couple pleaded guilty to torture and years of abuse that included shackling some of their 13 children to beds and starving them. (The couple would be sentenced to up to life in prison.)
2019 - Producers of the Fox TV show “Empire” announced that actor Jussie Smollett’s character would be removed from the final two episodes of the season after his arrest on charges that he staged a racist, anti-gay attack on himself.
Birthdays
23 - Lucie Rose Donlan (reality star)
30 - Khalil Mack (football player)
31 - Daniel E. Smith (actor)
35 - Rajon Rondo (basketball player)
36 - Zach Roerig (actor)
46 - Liza Huber (actress)
46 - Drew Barrymore (actress)
47 - James Blunt (singer)
49 - Michael Chang (tennis player)
50 - Jose Solano (actor)
50 - Lea Salonga (actress/singer)
51 - Tamara Mello (actress)
52 - Clinton Kelly (TV host)
52 - Thomas Jane (actor)
53 - Jeri Ryan (actress)
55 - Rachel Dratch (actress/comedian)
58 - Vijay Singh (golfer)
62 - Kyle MacLachlan (actor)
70 - Ellen Greene (actress)
71 - Julius Erving (basketball player)
71 - Julie Walters (actress)
73 - John Ashton (actor)
92 - James Hong (actor)
93 - Paul Dooley (actor)
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Today in Sports History - February 22
1959 - The inaugural Daytona 500 was run at Daytona Beach, Florida.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors attempted a record 34 free throws in a game against the St. Louis Hawks.
1980 - In one of the biggest upsets in sports history, the United States men's hockey team defeated the Soviet Union 4-3 in the Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid, New York in the "Miracle on Ice".
1985 - George Gervin of the San Antonio Spurs scored his 25,000th career point.
1992 - Don Nelson of the Golden State Warriors won his 700th game as an NBA head coach.
2016 - The Tennessee Volunteers women's basketball team's record streak of 565 consecutive weeks in The Associated Press Top 25 Poll ended as the Lady Vols fell out of the top 25.
2020 - British boxer Tyson Fury beat Deontay Wilder in their rematch in Las Vegas to win the heavyweight title for a second time.
1371 - Robert II succeeded to the throne of Scotland, beginning the Stuart Dynasty.
1732 - George Washington, the first president of the United States, was born in Westmoreland County in the Virginia Colony.
1819 - Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
1862 - Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as president of the Confederacy.
1865 - Tennessee adopted a new state constitution abolishing slavery.
1879 - Frank Winfield Woolworth opened his first "Five Cent Store" in Utica, New York.
1899 - President Grover Cleveland signed an act paving the way for Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Washington to become states.
1924 - Calvin Coolidge made the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House.
1935 - Airplanes were no longer permitted to fly over the White House.
1967 - More than 25,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, aimed at smashing a Vietcong stronghold near the Cambodian border. (Although the communists were driven out, they later returned.)
1984 - David Vetter, a 12-year-old Texas boy who’d spent most of his life in a plastic bubble because he had no immunity to disease, died 15 days after being removed from the bubble for a bone-marrow transplant.
1987 - Pop artist Andy Warhol died in New York City at age 58.
1997 - Scientists in Scotland announced they had succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named “Dolly.” (Dolly, however, was later put down after a short life marred by premature aging and disease.)
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.
2005 - Buckingham Palace announced that Queen Elizabeth II would not attend the civil marriage ceremony of her son Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles -- but that her absence should not be interpreted as a snub.
2006 - Insurgents destroyed the golden dome of one of Iraq's holiest Shiite shrines, the Askariya mosque in Samarra, setting off a spasm of sectarian violence.
2011 - Somali pirates shot to death four Americans taken hostage on their yacht several hundred miles south of Oman.
2016 - President Barack Obama sent lawmakers an official $1.9 billion request to combat the spread of the Zika virus in Latin America and the U.S. (Congress passed a $1.1 billion package in Sept. 2016.)
2016 - The City Council of Charlotte, North Carolina, voted 7-4 to pass a new law allowing transgender people to choose public bathrooms that corresponded to their gender identity.
2017 - The Trump administration lifted federal guidelines that said transgender students should be allowed to use public school bathrooms and locker rooms matching their chosen gender identity.
2019 - A California couple pleaded guilty to torture and years of abuse that included shackling some of their 13 children to beds and starving them. (The couple would be sentenced to up to life in prison.)
2019 - Producers of the Fox TV show “Empire” announced that actor Jussie Smollett’s character would be removed from the final two episodes of the season after his arrest on charges that he staged a racist, anti-gay attack on himself.
Birthdays
23 - Lucie Rose Donlan (reality star)
30 - Khalil Mack (football player)
31 - Daniel E. Smith (actor)
35 - Rajon Rondo (basketball player)
36 - Zach Roerig (actor)
46 - Liza Huber (actress)
46 - Drew Barrymore (actress)
47 - James Blunt (singer)
49 - Michael Chang (tennis player)
50 - Jose Solano (actor)
50 - Lea Salonga (actress/singer)
51 - Tamara Mello (actress)
52 - Clinton Kelly (TV host)
52 - Thomas Jane (actor)
53 - Jeri Ryan (actress)
55 - Rachel Dratch (actress/comedian)
58 - Vijay Singh (golfer)
62 - Kyle MacLachlan (actor)
70 - Ellen Greene (actress)
71 - Julius Erving (basketball player)
71 - Julie Walters (actress)
73 - John Ashton (actor)
92 - James Hong (actor)
93 - Paul Dooley (actor)
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Today in Sports History - February 22
1959 - The inaugural Daytona 500 was run at Daytona Beach, Florida.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors attempted a record 34 free throws in a game against the St. Louis Hawks.
1980 - In one of the biggest upsets in sports history, the United States men's hockey team defeated the Soviet Union 4-3 in the Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid, New York in the "Miracle on Ice".
1985 - George Gervin of the San Antonio Spurs scored his 25,000th career point.
1992 - Don Nelson of the Golden State Warriors won his 700th game as an NBA head coach.
2016 - The Tennessee Volunteers women's basketball team's record streak of 565 consecutive weeks in The Associated Press Top 25 Poll ended as the Lady Vols fell out of the top 25.
2020 - British boxer Tyson Fury beat Deontay Wilder in their rematch in Las Vegas to win the heavyweight title for a second time.
