February 22

Specialty Definitions: February 22

Domain	Definitions
19th Century Satire	Washington's Birthday. (George, not Booker), is remembered by thirty-eight of the States. On this day, in the public schools, are shown pictures of George Chopping the Cherry Tree and Breaking Up the Delaware Ice Trust, Valley Forge in Winter, and Mt. Ver. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Specialty Definition: February 22

Events

??BC - 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.
1630 - Native American Quadequine introduces Popcorn to English colonists at their first Thanksgiving dinner.
1632 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published .
1819 - Spain cedes Florida to the United States.
1847 - Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista - 5,000 American troops under General Zachary Taylor use their superiority in artillery to drive off 15,000 Mexican troops under Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.
1865 - Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery.
1879 - In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores.
1889 - President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
1900 - Hawaii officially becomes a territory of the United States.
1920 - In Emeryville, California, the first dog race track to employ an imitation rabbit opens.
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 Delano Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defense of the nation collapses.
1943 - Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
1956 - Elvis Presley enters the music charts for the first time, with "Heartbreak Hotel".
1959 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
1967 - Suharto takes power from Sukarno in Indonesia.
1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin wins a United States thoroughbred horse race making history as the first women to do so.
1973 - Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to China, the United States and the People's Republic of China agree to establish liaison offices.
1979 - Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
1980 - The United States ice hockey team defeats the Soviet Union team, 4-3, at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York, in an upset dubbed the "Miracle on Ice".
1994 - Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union. Ames would later be convicted to life imprisonment and his wife would receive a 5-years in prison.
1997 - In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned and was born in July 1996.
2002 - A MH-47E Chinook helicopter crashes into the ocean near the Philippines killing all 10 aboard.

Births

1732 - George Washington, first President of the United States (+ 1799) (Note: February 11 in the Julian Calendar that was then still in use)
1778 - Rembrandt Peale, artist
1788 - Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (+ 1860)
1796 - Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, mathematician (+ 1874)
1810 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer (+ 1849)
1817 - Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, mathematician
1819 - James Russell Lowell, poet and essayist
1839 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (+ 1906)
1840 - August Bebel, politician (+ 1913)
1849 - Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, mathematician
1857 - Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts movement (+ 1941)
1857 - Heinrich Hertz, physicist
1878 - Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist († 1909)
1880 - Frigyes Riesz, mathematician
1892 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, writer (+ 1950)
1900 - Luis Buñuel, film director (+ 1983)
1903 - Frank Plumpton Ramsey, mathematician
1903 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (+ 1990)
1907 - Robert Young, actor (+ 1998)
1907 - Sheldon Leonard, actor, writer, director, producer
1908 - John Mills, actor
1926 - Kenneth Williams, actor (+ 1988)
1932 - Edward Kennedy, politician and brother of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy
1944 - Jonathan Demme, director, Robert Kardashian, Lawyer for O.J. Simpson
1949 - Niki Lauda, Formula One driver
1950 - Julius Erving, Basketball Hall of Famer
1950 - Julie Walters, actress
1950 - Miou-Miou, actress
1959 - Kyle MacLachlan, actor
1962 - Steve Irwin, Australian herpetologist and TV personality (The Crocodile Hunter)
1966 - Brian Andrew Greig, statesman
1975 - Drew Barrymore, actress

Deaths

1875 - Sir Charles Lyell, geologist
1901 - George Francis FitzGerald, mathematician
1903 - Hugo Wolf, composer
1965 - Felix Frankfurter, justice of the United States Supreme Court
1968 - Peter Arno, cartoonist
1976 - Florence Ballard, singer with The Supremes
1984 - Jessamyn West, writer
1987 - Andy Warhol, artist, director, writer
1994 - Papa John Creach, musician
2000 - Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (*1946)
2001 - Claude Elwood Shannon, mathematician (according to K. Devlin)
2002 - Jonas Savimbi, Angola rebel leader
2002 - Chuck Jones, animator
2003 - Kurt Gscheidle, politician

Holidays and observances

Catholicism - Chair of St. Peter.
United States - Washington's Birthday (traditionally)

See Also:

February 21 - February 23 - January 22 - March 22 -- listing of all days

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

Photo Album: February 22

Non-Fiction Usage: February 22

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Georgia	A February 22 Supreme Court ruling upheld a June 2000 Appeals Court ruling revoking the Jehovah's Witnesses legal registration. (references)
	Fiji	For example, on February 22, police surrounded a conference center in Suva and prevented taping a "Leaders Forum" public affairs program on Fiji TV. Police claimed that a permit was necessary for the program and that if the program proceeded, participants would be arrested. (references)
Economic History	St. Lucia	Independence: February 22, 1979. (references)
Human Rights	Georgia	There were reports that on February 22, police beat Dimitry Romanov and his mother in the 6th Police Station in the Gldani-Nadzaladevi district of Tbilisi. (references)
	Burundi	Following a battle with rebel forces in Gishubi commune, Gitega province, that took place between February 22 and 28, government soldiers reportedly killed more than 50 civilians in reprisal for suspected cooperation with rebel forces; no action reportedly was taken against the responsible soldiers by year's end. (references)
Political Economy	TURKEY	Until February 22, 2001, the Turkish Lira (TL) was fixed in value to a basket of the U.S. dollar and the euro under a crawling exchange rate policy. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Anagrams: February 22

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "2-2-a-b-e-f-r-r-u-y"
	-4 letters: brayer, rarefy, rebury.
	-5 letters: barer, barre, barye, berry, burry, buyer, faery, farer, ferry, feuar, fryer, furry, rebar, rebuy, refry, urare, yarer, yerba.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: February 22

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 65 62 72 75 61 72 79 32 32

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100101 01100010 01110010 01110101 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 00110010 00110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#101 &#98 &#114 &#117 &#97 &#114 &#121 &#32 &#50 &#50

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0065 0062 0072 0075 0061 0072 0079 0032 0032

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Creve Coeur Club Banquet, February 22, 1907, Peoria, Ill.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

February 22

Definition: February 22

February 22

Noun

Specialty Definitions: February 22

19th Century Satire

Specialty Definition: February 22

Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

Synonym: February 22

Photo Album: February 22

Non-Fiction Usage: February 22

Civil Liberties

Georgia

Fiji

Economic History

St. Lucia

Human Rights

Georgia

Burundi

Political Economy

TURKEY

Anagrams: February 22

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: February 22

46 65 62 72 75 61 72 79 32 32

01000110 01100101 01100010 01110010 01110101 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 00110010 00110010

&#70 &#101 &#98 &#114 &#117 &#97 &#114 &#121 &#32 &#50 &#50

0046 0065 0062 0072 0075 0061 0072 0079 0032 0032

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