Today in History – February 22 in History
What happened on this day in history – February 22 in History
| 1349 | Jews are expelled from Zurich, Switzerland. | |
| 1613 | Mikhail Romanov is elected czar of Russia. | |
| 1732 | George Washington was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia. | |
| 1797 | The last invasion of Britain takes place when some 1,400 Frenchmen land at Fishguard in Wales. | |
| 1819 | Spain signs a treaty with the United States ceding eastern Florida. | |
| 1825 | Russia and Britain establish the Alaska/Canada boundary. | |
| 1862 | Jefferson Davis is inaugurated president of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va. for the second time. | |
| 1864 | Nathan Bedford Forrest’s brother, Jeffrey, is killed at Okolona, Mississippi. | |
| 1865 | Federal troops capture Wilmington, N.C. | |
| 1879 | Frank Winfield Woolworth’s ‘nothing over five cents’ shop opens at Utica, New York. It is the first chain store. | |
| 1902 | A fistfight breaks out in the Senate. Senator Benjamin Tillman suffers a bloody nose for accusing Senator John McLaurin of bias on the Philippine tariff issue. | |
| 1909 | The Great White Fleet returns to Norfolk, Virginia, from an around-the-world show of naval power. | |
| 1911 | Canadian Parliament votes to preserve the union with the British Empire. | |
| 1920 | The American Relief Administration appeals to the public to pressure Congress to aid starving European cities. | |
| 1924 | Columbia University declares radio education a success. | |
| 1926 | Pope Pius rejects Mussolini’s offer of aid to the Vatican. | |
| 1932 | Adolf Hitler is the Nazi Party candidate for the presidential elections in Germany. | |
| 1935 | All plane flights over the White House are barred because they are disturbing President Roosevelt’s sleep. | |
| 1942 | President Franklin Roosevelt orders Gen. Douglas MacArthur to leave the Philippines. | |
| 1951 | The Atomic Energy Commission discloses information about the first atom-powered airplane. | |
| 1952 | French forces evacuate Hoa Binh in Indochina. | |
| 1954 | U.S. is to install 60 Thor nuclear missiles in Britain. | |
| 1962 | A Soviet bid for new Geneva arms talks is turned down by the U.S. | |
| 1963 | Moscow warns the U.S. that an attack on Cuba would mean war. | |
| 1967 | Operation Junction City becomes the largest U.S. operation in Vietnam. | |
| 1984 | Britain and the U.S. send warships to the Persian Gulf following an Iranian offensive against Iraq. | |
| Born on February 22 | ||
| 1403 | Charles VII, King of France. | |
| 1732 | George Washington, Commander-in-chief of Continental forces during the American Revolution and first U.S. President. | |
| 1778 | Rembrandt Peale, American painter known for portraits of U.S. founding fathers. | |
| 1857 | Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout Movement. | |
| 1857 | Heinrich Hertz, German physicist, the first person to broadcast and receive radio waves. | |
| 1892 | Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet. | |
| 1900 | Sean O’Faolain, Irish short story writer. | |
| 1925 | Edward Gorey, American writer and illustrator. | |
| 1932 | Edward Kennedy, Massachusetts Senator, brother of John F. Kennedy. | |
| 1944 | Jonathan Demme, film director (The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia). | |