1759 – Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages
1794 – US Senate voids Pennsylvania’s election of Abraham Gallatin
1849 – 1st boat load of gold rush prospectors arrives in San Francisco from the east coast
1883 – 1st US vaudeville theater opens in Boston, Massachusetts
1912 – Victor Trumper’s last Test Cricket innings c Woolley b Barnes 50
1941 – British-Italian dogfight above Albania
1951 – French government of Pleven dissolves
1969 – Terence O’Neill re-elected as leader of the Unionist Parliamentary Party and thus confirmed as Northern Ireland Prime Minister
1991 – Gulf War ends after Iraq accepts a ceasefire following their retreat from Kuwait
2016 – Explosion at Severnaya coal mine in Vorkuta, Russia kills 36, including 5 rescuers
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 27th February 2022
1693 – 1st women’s magazine “Ladies’ Mercury” published in London, England
1957 – Mao’s famous speech to the Supreme State Conference “On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People” expounding Maoist ideals
1959 – Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 players
1962 – South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm’s palace bombed by dissident air pilots in a failed assassination attempt
1974 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 – Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747
1997 – Singer Sade (Helen Folasade) arrested in Jamaica for disobeying a police officer
1998 – 12th Soul Train Music Awards: Puff Daddy, Whitney Houston win
2013 – Pope Benedict XVI presents his farewell address to Vatican City
2014 – US Republican Governor Jan Brewer vetoes a “religious freedom” bill that would have allowed businesses to turn away gay customers
Historical Events for 26th February 2022
1732 – 1st mass celebrated in 1st American Catholic church, St Joseph’s, Philadelphia
1852 – British troopship Birkenhead sinks off South Africa, 458 die, 193 survive
1962 – US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation
1967 – Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champion
1973 – 8th Academy of Country Music Awards: Merle Haggard and Donna Fargo win
1976 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 – French Train Grande Vitesse averages 380 kph on trial run
1991 – Coalition planes bomb Iraqi forces retreating from Kuwait during the Gulf War, killing hundreds and creating the so-called ‘Highway of Death’
2005 – 25th Golden Raspberry Awards: “Catwoman” wins
2020 – Saudi Arabia bars overseas pilgrims from accessing religious sites of Mecca and Medina because of COVID-19 fears for 1st time in living memory
Historical Events for 25th February 2022
1095 – Council of Rockingham: bishop Anselmus vs King William II Rufus
1804 – Thomas Jefferson nominated for US President at Democratic-Republican caucus
1862 – Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving and Printing to print newly issued US paper currency, the United States Notes
1913 – The 16th Amendment to the US Constitution becomes law, providing the legal basis for the institution of a graduated income tax
1921 – The Living Buddha, Hutuktu, is crowned King of Mongolia as the country declares independence from China
1938 – Lord Halifax becomes British Foreign Secretary
1961 – Niagara ends St Bonaventura’s 99-game home basketball win streak
1971 – P Zindel’s “And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little” premieres in NYC
1974 – Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975
1993 – Pakistan all out 43 v West Indies, world one-day int record low
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
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”
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
Historical Events for 21st February 2022
1431 – Joan of Arc’s first day of interrogation during her trial for heresy
1792 – US Congress passes Presidential Succession Act
1857 – US issues flying eagle cents
1864 – 1st US Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore
1934 – Nicaraguan patriot Augusto César Sandino and three others kidnapped and assassinated by the National Guard in Larreynaga
1945 – Dutch Archbishop of Utrecht Johannes de Jong calls for help with war casualties following the Nazi occupation of Netherlands from the allies
1972 – Richard Nixon becomes the first US President to visit China, normalizing relations between the countries in a meeting with Chinese leader Mao Zedong in Beijing
1983 – Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 m 7.1 s
1989 – Pete Rose meets with Commissioner Ueberroth to discuss his gambling
2019 – The Lunar Library, a 30 million page digital library launched on board Israel’s Beresheet Lunar Lander, aiming to be stored on the Moon
Historical Events for 20th February 2022
1710 – Johan Willem Friso becomes Viceroy of Groningen, Netherlands
1864 – Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida
1899 – Ill Tel and Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system
1922 – Marc Connelly and George Kaufman’s “To the Ladies” premieres in NYC
1938 – UK Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigns stating Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has appeased Nazi Germany
1944 – Batman and Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers
1958 – LA Coliseum approves 2-year pact allowing LA Dodgers to use facility whilst Dodger Stadium is completed in time for the 1962 MLB season
1988 – Brian Boitano wins Olympic gold medal in figure skating
1989 – An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England
2005 – Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
Historical Events for 19th February 2022
842 – Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstates the veneration of icons in churches
1831 – 1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run in Pennsylvania
1923 – Philip Barry’s “You and I” premieres in NYC
1929 – Medical diathermy machine 1st used in Schenectady, NY
1945 – US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese with 30,000 US Marines
1949 – Mass arrests of communists in India
1971 – Paul McCartney releases “Another Day” in UK
1977 – A’s sell pitcher Paul Lindblad to the Rangers for $400,000
1977 – Right wing Rod Gilbert scores a goal and adds an assist in a 5-2 defeat at the NY Islanders to become first player in NY Rangers history (11th in NHL) to score 1,000 career points
1982 – Sharie Langford, California, sets women’s bowling series record of 853