What is today history February 22

Today in History : February 22

1349 : Jews are expelled from Zurich, Switzerland.

1613 : Mikhail Romanov is elected czar of Russia.

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).