February 22
1371 - Robert II became king of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
1630 - English colonists in the Massachusetts Bay Colony first sampled popcorn brought to them by a Native American named Quadequina for their Thanksgiving celebration.
1732 - George Washington, the first president of the United States (1789-1797), was born in Westmoreland County in the Virginia Colony.
1784 - A U.S. merchant ship, the Empress of China, left New York for the Far East to trade goods with China.
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.
1924 - Calvin Coolidge gave 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.)
1987 - Pop artist Andy Warhol died at a New York City hospital 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.
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 - A magnitude-6.1 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, killed 184 people.
2011 - Somali pirates shot to death four Americans taken hostage on their yacht several hundred miles south of Oman.
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.
2021 - The number of U.S. deaths from COVID-19 topped 500,000, according to Johns Hopkins University.
2021 - Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against the founder and CEO of MyPillow, saying that Mike Lindell falsely accused the company of rigging the 2020 presidential election; the company had filed similar lawsuits against Trump lawyers Rudolph Giuliani and Sidney Powell.
2021 - State lawmakers gave final approval to a bill to end capital punishment in Virginia, a state that had executed more people in its history than any other.
Birthdays
24 - Lucie Rose Donlan (reality star)
36 - Rajon Rondo (basketball player)
37 - Zach Roerig (actor)
47 - Liza Huber (actress)
47 - Drew Barrymore (actress)
48 - James Blunt (singer)
50 - Michael Chang (tennis player)
51 - Jose Solano (actor)
51 - Lea Salonga (actress/singer)
52 - Tamara Mello (actress)
53 - Clinton Kelly (TV host)
53 - Thomas Jane (actor)
54 - Jeri Ryan (actress)
55 - Paul Lieberstein (actor)
56 - Rachel Dratch (actress/comedian)
59 - Vijay Singh (golfer)
63 - Kyle MacLachlan (actor)
71 - Ellen Greene (actress)
72 - Julius Erving (basketball player)
72 - Julie Walters (actress)
74 - John Ashton (actor)
93 -James Hong (actor)
94 - Paul Dooley (actor)
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Today in Sports History - February 22
1860 - The first recorded organized baseball game was played in San Francisco, California.
1959 - The inaugural Daytona 500 race was held in Daytona Beach, Florida; although Johnny Beauchamp was initially declared the winner, the victory was later awarded to Lee Petty.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors attempted an NBA record 34 free throws in a game against the St. Louis Hawks.
1980 - The "Miracle on Ice" took place as the United States men's ice hockey team defeated the Soviet Union 4-3 in a major upset in the semifinals of the Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York.
1985 - George Gervin of the San Antonio Spurs scored his 25,000th career point.
1992 - Don Nelson of the Golden State Warriors recorded his 700th NBA coaching victory.
1993 - Glenn Anderson (Toronto Maple Leafs) became the 36th NHL player to score 1,000 points.
2018 - The United States women's ice hockey team wins the Olympic gold medal for the first time in 20 years with a 4-3 shootout victory over Canada at the Winter Games in Peyongchang.
1371 - Robert II became king of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
1630 - English colonists in the Massachusetts Bay Colony first sampled popcorn brought to them by a Native American named Quadequina for their Thanksgiving celebration.
1732 - George Washington, the first president of the United States (1789-1797), was born in Westmoreland County in the Virginia Colony.
1784 - A U.S. merchant ship, the Empress of China, left New York for the Far East to trade goods with China.
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.
1924 - Calvin Coolidge gave 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.)
1987 - Pop artist Andy Warhol died at a New York City hospital 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.
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 - A magnitude-6.1 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, killed 184 people.
2011 - Somali pirates shot to death four Americans taken hostage on their yacht several hundred miles south of Oman.
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.
2021 - The number of U.S. deaths from COVID-19 topped 500,000, according to Johns Hopkins University.
2021 - Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against the founder and CEO of MyPillow, saying that Mike Lindell falsely accused the company of rigging the 2020 presidential election; the company had filed similar lawsuits against Trump lawyers Rudolph Giuliani and Sidney Powell.
2021 - State lawmakers gave final approval to a bill to end capital punishment in Virginia, a state that had executed more people in its history than any other.
Birthdays
24 - Lucie Rose Donlan (reality star)
36 - Rajon Rondo (basketball player)
37 - Zach Roerig (actor)
47 - Liza Huber (actress)
47 - Drew Barrymore (actress)
48 - James Blunt (singer)
50 - Michael Chang (tennis player)
51 - Jose Solano (actor)
51 - Lea Salonga (actress/singer)
52 - Tamara Mello (actress)
53 - Clinton Kelly (TV host)
53 - Thomas Jane (actor)
54 - Jeri Ryan (actress)
55 - Paul Lieberstein (actor)
56 - Rachel Dratch (actress/comedian)
59 - Vijay Singh (golfer)
63 - Kyle MacLachlan (actor)
71 - Ellen Greene (actress)
72 - Julius Erving (basketball player)
72 - Julie Walters (actress)
74 - John Ashton (actor)
93 -James Hong (actor)
94 - Paul Dooley (actor)
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Today in Sports History - February 22
1860 - The first recorded organized baseball game was played in San Francisco, California.
1959 - The inaugural Daytona 500 race was held in Daytona Beach, Florida; although Johnny Beauchamp was initially declared the winner, the victory was later awarded to Lee Petty.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors attempted an NBA record 34 free throws in a game against the St. Louis Hawks.
1980 - The "Miracle on Ice" took place as the United States men's ice hockey team defeated the Soviet Union 4-3 in a major upset in the semifinals of the Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York.
1985 - George Gervin of the San Antonio Spurs scored his 25,000th career point.
1992 - Don Nelson of the Golden State Warriors recorded his 700th NBA coaching victory.
1993 - Glenn Anderson (Toronto Maple Leafs) became the 36th NHL player to score 1,000 points.
2018 - The United States women's ice hockey team wins the Olympic gold medal for the first time in 20 years with a 4-3 shootout victory over Canada at the Winter Games in Peyongchang.
