February 22

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY ~ FEBRUARY 22

 

 

 

 1933 - Goering forms SA/SS-police, shoots 40-50
 1934 - "It Happened One Night," opens at NY's Radio City Music Hall
 1935 - Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
 1936 - Construction on Ypenburg Neth airport begins
 1939 - Netherlands recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
 1940 - Finnish troops vacate Koivisto island
 1940 - German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578
 1941 - Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal
 1941 - German assault on El Agheila Libya
 1941 - IG Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp
 1941 - Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam

 

 1941 - Paul Creston's 1st Symphony, premieres
 1941 - Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man," premieres
 32nd US President Franklin Roosevelt 1942 - World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defenses collapse
 1943 - Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
 1944 - US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem & Nijmegen by mistake/800+ die
 1945 - Arab League froms (Cairo)
 1945 - British troops take Ramree Island, Burma
 1945 - Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland
 1948 - Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die
 1950 - Brockway & Weinstock publish "Men of Music" (rev ed)
 1955 - British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail
 1956 - 1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United
 1956 - Elvis Presley's 1st hit in Billboard's top 10: "Heartbreak Hotel"

 

 1957 - Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win
 1957 - Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958
 1958 - "Portotino" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 3 performances
 1958 - Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days
 Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley 1958 - Egypt & Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR)
 1958 - Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes
 1959 - 1st Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH)
 1962 - Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free throw attempts

 

 1963 - Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)
 1964 - Beatles arrive back in England after their 1st US visit
 1965 - USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test)
 1966 - Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok & Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew
 1967 - Barbara Garson's "MacBird," premieres in NYC
 1967 - Sling-shot goal post & 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL
 1967 - 25,000 US & S Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border
 1968 - Rock group Genesis release their 1st record "Silent Sun"
 1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major US track

 

 1970 - "Charles Aznavour" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 23 perfs
 1971 - Lt Gen Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria
 1972 - Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir & Prime Minister of Qatar
 1972 - President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing
 1973 - US & China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing & Wash DC
 1974 - Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators

 1975 -  Actress Drew Barrymore is born

 

 

  1976 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
 1978 - 2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly, Tenn
 1979 - Billy Martin named manager of Oakland A's

 

 1979 - Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate & Cat Building is dedicated
 1979 - St Lucia gains independence from Britain
 1980 - Afghanistan declares martial law
 1980 - USA beats USSR in Olympic hockey 4-3 en route to a gold medal
 1981 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic
 1982 - NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for NY governor (unsuccessful)
 1983 - Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 1500m free style swimming record
 1984 - Brothers Anton & Peter Stastny score 8 pts each for NHL Quebec
 1986 - Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
 1987 - Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200m indoor (20.36 sec)
 1988 - Bonnie Blair skates world record 500m (39.10 sec)

 

 1989 - Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress
 1989 - NY Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50)
 1989 - UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"
 1989 - US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals"
 1989 - 31st Grammy Awards: Don't Worry Be Happy, Faith, Tracy Chapman
 1989 - 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)
 1990 - 1st day India v NZ cricket at Auckland NZ 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps
 1991 - Bush & US Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hrs to begin Kuwait withdrawal