1713 – French invade under Jacques Cassard on Curacao
1857 – Chinese residents in the fledging state of Sarawak rebel against the “White Rajah” James Brooke
1885 – Mark Twain publishes the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” in the US
1908 – 1st US postage stamps in rolls issued
1913 – French modernist painting “Nude Descending a Staircase” by Marcel Duchamp causes an uproar when shown in New York
1918 – Germany renews its offensive against the Russians, making dramatic gains against disorganized and dispirited Russian troops
1979 – Mini-series “Roots: Next Generations” premieres on ABC TV
1980 – East German cross country skier Barbara Petzold wins first of 2 gold medals at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics in women’s 10k; also takes gold as part of 4 x 5k relay team
1994 – Dan Jansen skates world record 1000m (1:12.43)
2020 – President Donald Trump commutes the 14-year sentence of former Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich’s corruption conviction
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 17th February 2022
1818 – Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patents “draisine” (early bicycle)
1854 – Britain recognises independence of Orange Free State (South Africa)
1944 – Battle of Eniwetok begins with US forces landing on Canna and Camelia islets in the Pacific
1955 – Mike Souchak sets PGA 72-hole record of 257 (not broken until 2001)
1973 – Rodney Redmond scores 107 on debut v Pakistan, his only Test Cricket
1974 – 16th Daytona 500: Richard Petty first driver to win back-to-back titles at Daytona; his 5th Great American race
1983 – Netherlands adopts constitution
1985 – Panamanian jockey Laffit Pincay Jr is third to ride 6,000 winners; wins aboard Doria’s Delight in the 5th race at Santa Anita Park
1985 – 1st day/night game at the MCG, Australia v England
1998 – Larry Wayne Harris and Bill Levitt arrested for possession of anthrax
Historical Events for 16th February 2022
1804 – US Navy Lt Stephen Decatur raids Tripoli Harbor and burns Navy frigate “Philadelphia” after it is seized by pirates
1909 – Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary
1943 – -32°F (-36°C), Falls Village, Connecticut (state record)
1961 – China uses its 1st nuclear reactor
1963 – C and A Building in Amsterdam burns down
1963 – Philosopher Hannah Arendt’s controversial account of the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann is first published in “The New Yorker”
1968 – Elvis Presley receives a gold record for “How Great Thou Art”
1969 – Detroit Red Wings’ captain Alex Delvecchio picks up an assist in a 6-2 defeat at Minnesota to become the 3rd player in NHL history to score 1,000 career points
1989 – Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens signs $7.5M-3 year contract
2019 – Needing 78 for an unlikely victory, Sri Lanka’s Kusal Perera 153no and Vishwa Fernando 6no put on a record 10th wicket stand for a 1 wicket win vs South Africa in the 1st cricket Test in Durban
Historical Events for 15th February 2022
1563 – Russian troops occupy Polotsk Lithuania
1956 – Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland
1970 – Ard Schenk becomes world champion all-round skater
1971 – A British soldier dies 7 days after being mortally wounded in an Irish Republican Army attack in North Ireland
1972 – Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes metropolitan of Imbros and Tenedos
1987 – 1982 Masters champion Craig Stadler is disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot
1991 – Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die
1993 – Bombings by mafia drug lords kill 14 in Bogota, Colombia
2003 – An estimated 6-11 million people around the world take to the streets to protest against war with Iraq
2004 – 57th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” Best Film, Peter Weir Best Director
Historical Events for 14th February 2022
1855 – Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
1883 – 1st state labor union legislation; New Jersey legalizes unions
1900 – Date of events in Australian movie “Picnic at Hanging Rock”
1912 – 1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Connecticut
1941 – Carson McCuller’s “Reflections in a Golden Eye” published
1961 – Element 103, Lawrencium, 1st produced in Berkeley Calif
1987 – Detroit Pistons-Philadelphia 76ers game draws crowd of 53,745 at Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac; third largest crowd in NBA history; Pistons win, 125-107
1994 – 2nd ESPY Awards: Barry Bonds, Julie Krone win
2019 – JP Morgan is the first bank to create its own crypto-currency JPM Coin
2019 – US Senate confirms William Barr as Attorney General
Historical Events for 13th February 2022
1706 – Battle at Fraustadt: Swedish army beats Russia and Saxon forces, one of Swedish’s Greatest victories in the Great Northern War
1786 – Abraham Baldwin selected president of University of Georgia
1899 – -1°F (-18°C) New Orleans, La
1943 – Women’s US Marine Corps created
1955 – Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls
1970 – Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi
1977 – “Robber Bridegroom” closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 145 performances
1984 – 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart and liver transplant
2008 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes an historic apology to Indigenous Australians, especially to the Stolen Generations who suffered forced child removal and assimilation
2009 – The Dutch Statistics agency confirms the Netherlands are in recession
Historical Events for 12th February 2022
1777 – Captain James Cook arrives at Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand, aboard Resolution, on his 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean
1855 – Michigan State University established
1908 – NY to Paris auto race (via Alaska and Siberia) begins in NYC George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel
1938 – Austrian chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg visits Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden
1943 – General Eisenhower departs Algiers for Tebessa
1945 – SF selected for site of UN Conference
1955 – Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazakhstan
1989 – Barbara Harris becomes 1st female bishop of a US Episcopal church
1999 – Scientists warn about harmful impacts on health of genetically modified (GM) food
2002 – The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He eventually dies four years later before its conclusion.
Historical Events for 11th February 2022
1852 – First British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street, London)
1903 – Anton Bruckner’s 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna
1921 – Ambassador Theater opens at 215 W 49th St NYC
1929 – Eugene O’Neill’s “Dynamo” premieres in NYC
1957 – KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 – BBC pioneering series “Your Life in Their Hands” first broadcast presented by Dr. Charles Fletcher, 1st major TV series to deal with medicine
1969 – Dorey Funk Jr beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champ
1978 – 25th hat trick in NY Islander history, Denis Potvin’s 2nd
1991 – Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) forms in The Hague, Netherlands
2018 – Norway sweeps the medals in the Olympic 30k cross country skiathlon at Pyeongchang; Simen Hegstad Krüger wins gold ahead of teammates Martin Johnsrud Sundby and Hans Christer Holund
Historical Events for 10th February 2022
1713 – Netherlands and Britain sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier [OS=Jan 31]
1859 – General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude and Nana Sahib in Indian Mutiny
1933 – Delivery of 1st singing telegram (Postal Telegram Co NYC)
1960 – Charles Ives’ “Lincoln, the Great Commoner” premieres
1961 – Walter Piston’s 7th Symphony, commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra premieres under direction of Eugene Ormandy; wins 1961 Pulitzer Prize
1970 – Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel at Val d’Isere, France, killing 40 Belgian, French, and German youths
1977 – Jonathan Netanyahu Lane in the Bronx, New York, named in honor of the Bronx-born Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebbe Raid in Uganda in 1976
1981 – 8 killed and 198 injured by fire at Las Vegas Hilton
1984 – Soviet cross-country skier Nikolay Zimyatov wins a career 4th Olympic gold medal when he takes out the 30k event in Sarajevo; 3 gold in Lake Placid 1980
1989 – Miami Vice’s 100th episode seen on TV
Historical Events for 9th February 2022
1287 – Massive storm across south-east England hits Cinque Ports realines the coastline, New Romney port now a mile inland
1807 – The Grand Sanhedrin (Jewish high court) is convened by Napoleon Bonaparte to give legal sanction to the principles in the Assembly of Notables
1886 – US President Grover Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence
1923 – Soviet Aeroflot airlines forms
1975 – Soyuz 17 returns to Earth
1986 – Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen
1990 – “Bradys” return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV
1992 – “2 Shakespearean Actors” closes at Cort Theater NYC after 29 performances
1995 – “Heiress” opens at Cort Theater NYC for 340 performances
2011 – Nicki Minaj’s “Pink Friday” album reaches number one on the Billboard 200 in its eleventh week on the chart