1714 – Edmund Andros, English governor in North America, dies at 76
1721 – John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (b. 1648)
1785 – Carlo Buonaparte, Corsican attorney and father of emperor Napoleon, dies at 39
1799 – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and writer (types of Lichtenberg), dies at 56
1945 – Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt’s PM, assassinated in parliament
1983 – Herbert Norman Howells, composer, dies at 90
1993 – Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster, dies at 75
1998 – Henny Youngman, American comedian and violinist (Take my wife … please), dies at 91
2014 – Harold Ramis, American actor and director, dies from vasculitis at 69
2020 – Jan Kowalczyk, Polish equestrian rider (Olympics gold show jumping individual; silver team 1980), dies at 78
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Historical Events for 24th February 2022
1868 – 1st US parade with floats (Mardi Gras-Mobile, Alabama)
1911 – Japan and the US conclude a treaty that continues restrictions on Japanese laborers
1921 – 1st transcontinental flight in 24 hrs flying time arrives in Florida
1938 – Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles
1960 – Austria goes 1-2 in the men’s slalom at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics; Ernst Hintersteer wins gold ahead of teammate Hias Leitner
1997 – South Africa announces it is constructing largest modern day blimp
1999 – A China Southern Airlines Tupolev TU-154 airliner crashes on approach to Wenzhou airport in eastern the People’s Republic of China, killing 61.
2013 – 55th Daytona 500: Jimmie Johnson wins 2nd Great American Race; Danica Patrick first female to start from pole position; also best-ever finish by a woman at Daytona (8th)
2018 – Men’s big air snowboarding event makes Olympic debut at Pyeongchang; Canada’s Sébastien Toutant is inaugural gold medallist
2020 – New York firefighter Daniel Foley, who found his brother’s body in ruins of World Trade Center, dies of cancer bringing first responders death toll to 343
Today in History for 24th February 2022
Historical Events
1582 – Pope Gregory XIII announces New Style (Gregorian) calendar
1899 – Western Washington University is established
1979 – Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford, Texas
2008 – Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba due to ill health after nearly fifty years
2010 – Europe risks a double-dip recession after bad results emerge from France, Germany and Italy, it is reported today; the Eurozone only grew by 0.1% in the last quarter of 2009
2020 – New York firefighter Daniel Foley, who found his brother’s body in ruins of World Trade Center, dies of cancer bringing first responders death toll to 343
Famous Birthdays
1827 – Charles Davis Jameson, American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Gorham, Maine (d. 1862)
1914 – Zachary Scott, American actor (Spotlight Playhouse, Mildred Pierce), born in Austin, Texas (d. 1965)
1932 – Everard Goodman, English real estate developer (TOPS Estates)
1940 – Denis Law, Scottish footballer (Manchester United, Manchester City), born in Aberdeen, Scotland
1948 – Dennis Waterman, English actor (Fair Exchange, Minder, The Sweeney), born in London
1968 – John Velddman, soccer player (Sparta)
Famous Deaths
1721 – John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (b. 1648)
1919 – Josephine McGill, composer, dies at 41
1925 – Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860)
1996 – James Runcieman Sutherland, academic, dies at 95
1998 – Antonio Prohias, Cuban-born cartoonist (b. 1921)
2004 – Alvino Rey, American orchestra leader (King Family), dies at 95
Famous Deaths for 23rd February 2022
1464 – Zhu Qizhen, Chinese Emperor Yingzong of Ming (1435-49 and 1457-64), dies at 36 but not before giving an order to end the practice of burying alive concubines and palace maids so that they could follow emperors to the next world
1507 – Gentile Bellini, Venetian painter (Sultan Mohammed II), dies at about 78 (burial date)
1607 – Herman Herbertsz, vicar, dies at about 60
1719 – Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, German Lutheran missionary to India, dies at 36
1961 – Wilf Ferguson, West Indian cricket leg spinner (34 wickets for West Indies), dies at 43
1969 – Joseph Messner, Austrian organist and composer, dies at 75
1970 – Hirsch Jacobs, American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner (b. 1904)
1994 – Stuart Berger, doctor (Immune Power Diet), dies from obesity at 40
2001 – Robert Enrico, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
2004 – Carl Anderson, American singer (b. 1945)
Historical Events for 23rd February 2022
1672 – Joan Blaeus publishers destroyed by fire in Amsterdam
1689 – Dutch prince William III proclaimed King of England
1906 – Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
1945 – US Marines raise American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Pulitzer Prize winning photo of which by Joe Rosenthall later became iconic, inspiring the Marine Corps War Memorial sculpture
1958 – Arturo Frondizi elected President of Argentina
1980 – Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37-mil-gallon spillage
1983 – The Spanish Socialist government of Felipe González and Miguel Boyer nationalizes Rumasa, a holding of José María Ruiz Mateos
1985 – US Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as Attorney General
1986 – Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 60 m indoor (7.00 sec)
1997 – Scientists in Scotland announce they have cloned an adult mammal, producing a lamb named “Dolly”
Today in History for 23rd February 2022
Historical Events
1668 – Fire in the Hofburg in Vienna, Emperor Leopold I rescued
1861 – Dutch Premier Floris A van Hall resigns
1883 – Alabama becomes 1st US state to enact an antitrust law
1958 – Last Municipal arc light at Mission and 25th removed in San Francisco (installed 1913)
1962 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1991 – US President George H. W. Bush gives Iraq a 24-hour deadline to withdraw from Kuwait or face a ground war
Famous Birthdays
1915 – Heinrich Schirmbeck, German author (Das Spiegellabyrinth)
1916 – William Walsh, academic
1958 – Ria Brieffies, Dutch pop vocalist (Dolly Dots), born in Lutjebroek, Netherlands (d. 2009)
1964 – John Norum, Swedish rocker (Europe), born in Vardø, Norway
1970 – Niecy Nash [Carol Denise Ensley], American actress and comedian, born in Compton, California
1984 – Andre Ward, American professional boxer, unified light heavyweight champion and world’s top pound-for-pound boxer, born in San Francisco, California
Famous Deaths
1607 – Herman Herbertsz, vicar, dies at about 60
1679 – Anne Conway, English philosopher, dies at 47
1855 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician considered one of the greatest of all time (Gaussian distribution, fundamental theorem of algebra), dies at 77
1915 – Robert Smalls, African-American congressman (1875-87), dies at 75
1997 – Oscar Lewenstein, British impresario, dies at 80
2008 – Paul Frère, Belgian race car driver and motorsport journalist (b. 1917)
Famous Deaths for 22nd February 2022
1770 – Christopher Snider, 11, Boston, becomes 1st martyr of US Revolution
1878 – Franz Hunten, composer, dies at 84
1930 – Godfried CE van Daalen, Dutch general/governor of Atjeh, dies at 66
1976 – Florence Ballard, American pop and RandB singer (The Supremes, 1959-67 – “Buttered Popcorn”; “Where Did Our Love Go”), dies of a heart attack at 32
1976 – Michael Polany, Hungarians/English chemist/sociologist, dies at 84
1983 – Christina E “Christine” Auwen, singer and wife of John Kelly, dies at 75
1997 – Albert Shanker, American labor leader (Amer Fed of Teachers), dies at 68
2006 – Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (b. 1961)
2007 – Edgar Evans, Welsh tenor (Covent Garden Opera Company), dies at 94
2007 – Howard Verne Ramsey, oldest U.S. veteran of WWI (b. 1898)
Historical Events for 22nd February 2022
1904 – The Hague Tribunal gives its decision in claims against Venezuela; it sets the sum to be paid by Venezuela and gives preferential treatment to the three powers that initiated the block – Britain, Germany, and Italy
1920 – 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville, California)
1941 – Nazi police raid Amsterdam and round up 429 young Jews for deportation to be sent to Buchenwald and Mauthausen concentration camps
1948 – Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die
1958 – Egypt and Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR)
1967 – Barbara Garson’s “MacBird” premieres in NYC
1979 – Cleveland Metroparks Zoo’s Primate and Cat Building is dedicated (Cleveland, Ohio)
1995 – Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km)
2014 – Snowboard Olympic parallel special slalom event debuts and is run for the only time at the Sochi Winter Games; Russian Vic Wild and Julia Dujmovits of Canada win unique gold medals
2016 – 10 million people are without water in Delhi after caste protests in Jat sabotage the Munak water canal
Today in History for 22nd February 2022
Historical Events
1904 – The Hague Tribunal gives its decision in claims against Venezuela; it sets the sum to be paid by Venezuela and gives preferential treatment to the three powers that initiated the block – Britain, Germany, and Italy
1907 – 1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London
1993 – Vinod Kambli scores 224 v England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours
1995 – Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km)
2013 – The European Commission forecast for 2013 expects growth of 0.1% across the 27 members of the EU but a contraction of 0.3% in the Eurozone economy
2018 – Neanderthals not humans were the first artists on Earth, producing red cave paintings 65,000 years ago in Spain, according to new research published in “Science”
Famous Birthdays
1514 – Tahmasp I, shah of Persia (1524-76)/author (Tazkire-i Shah)
1814 – Oskar Kolberg, Polish ethnographer, folklorist, and composer (Lud), born in Przysucha, Poland (d. 1890)
1902 – Hanns Neupert, German piano builder/author (Das Klavichord)
1966 – Brian Greig, Australian politician, born in Fremantle, Australia
1975 – Charles O’Bannon, American NBA guard (Detroit Pistons), born in Bellflower, California
1988 – Przemysław Kazimierczak, Polish footballer, born in Łęczyca, Poland
Famous Deaths
1636 – Santorio Sanctorius, Venetian physiologist and physician (invented thermometer), dies at 74
1822 – Johann Ignaz Walter, German opera singer and composer, dies at 66
1943 – Sophie Scholl, German anti-Nazi political activist, active in the non-violent resistance group, the White Rose (Die Weisse Rose), beheaded by guillotine at 21
1982 – Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan, dies at 83
1983 – Adrian Boult, British conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra, 1930-50; London Philharmonic, 1950-59), dies at 93
2005 – Simone Simon, French actress (All Money Can Buy, Ladies in Love), dies from natural causes at 94
Famous Deaths for 21st February 2022
1684 – Pieter van den Abeelen, Dutch medallist/jeweller, dies at about 75
1823 – Charles Wolfe, Irish poet, dies at 31
1872 – Pavel P Gagarin, Russian monarch/politician, dies at 82
1919 – Habibullah Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (1901-19), murdered at 46
1920 – Jacinta Marto, witness of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima (b. 1910)
1978 – Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest (b. 1901)
1986 – Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (“…And Ladies of the Club”), dies at 90
1992 – Franc Holden, British astronomer (Binary Stars), dies
2002 – John Thaw, English actor (Inspector Morse), dies of cancer at 60
2008 – Ben Chapman, American actor (b. 1928)