February 22nd What Happened on the day you were born on This day in History
1997 Great Britain Dolly The Sheep
22nd February, 1997 : Scottish scientists from the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh announce they have successfully cloned an adult sheep named Dolly, The sheep was born in July of 1996, and Dolly was the world's first cloned mammal.
22nd February, 1997 : Scottish scientists from the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh announce they have successfully cloned an adult sheep named Dolly, The sheep was born in July of 1996, and Dolly was the world's first cloned mammal.
1879 U.S.A. 1st Woolworth 5 Cents Store Opened
22nd February, 1879 : Frank Winfield Woolworth opens the Great 5 Cents Store in Utica, New York. Pledging to sell "nothing" that cost more than a nickel expanding over the next 50 years to 1000 stores, but due to changes in the retail market the last Woolworths shop in the United States was closed down on July 17, 1997,
1924 U.S.A. Calvin Coolidge
22nd February, 1924 : Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House.
1938 Germany Austrian Protection
22nd February, 1938 : In a speech to the Reichstag and the world on Sunday Adolf Hitler proclaimed oppressed and persecuted Germans in Austria, Czechoslovakia and the rest of the world are under the protection of Germany and force will be used if necessary for their protection. Germany does not want war but will protect it's people with war if needed. Together with the alliance of Italy and Japan and Germany's large build up of military power France and Great Britain believe a second world war may well be inevitable.
1938 U.S.A. Secretary of the Interior
22nd February, 1938 : The United States Secretary of the Interior Ickes was prepared to give an anti-communist and anti-fascist speech, and notes from this scheduled broadcast were revealed on this day. Ickes urged all democracies to fight against (“repulse against”) internal fascism and communism. Ickes’ speech was scheduled to be heard in places such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, India, and South Africa. Ickes had commented, saying that he was speaking as an individual and not as a representative of the president, or the United States.
1966 U.S.A. Lee Harvey Oswald
22nd February, 1966 : The U.S. government was awarded custody of Lee Harvey Oswald’s weapons. He was convicted as of this time of being the assassin of John F. Kennedy. The custody of Oswald’s weapons was granted by U.S. District Judge Joe Estes. The weapons in question were a 6.5mm foreign rifle (for shot at the president) and a pistol (for shot at Dallas Policeman J.D. Tippit). The government wanted to place the weapons reported to have been used by Oswald in the National Archives in Washington.
1966 U.S.A. Vietnam War Veteran
22nd February, 1966 : John A. Podoske, a resident of Logan, Ohio, was denied a Postmaster position on this day. He attempted to appeal to have this case re-opened several months ago, based on the fact that he was a disabled Vietnam War Veteran.
1967 Vietnam Tet Offensive
22nd February, 1967 : The Tet offensive by communist forces of North Vietnam against South Vietnam ends
1967 Indonesia President Sukarno
22nd February, 1967 : Indonesian President Sukarno surrenders all executive authority to military dictator General Haji Mohammad Suharto.
1971 U.S.A. three red lights seen
22nd February, 1971 : A report on this day has indicated that a plane search was planned. This scheduled search was decided necessary as a result of witnesses seeing “three balls of fire” or “three red lights” headed towards earth in the blowing snow. This possible crash was believed to have taken place in or near Elmore City, Oklahoma. Numerous reports came in from Oklahoma City and surrounding areas, confirming that this was most likely a crash. Further reports would be made in future-dated issues of local Oklahoma newspapers.
1972 UK Aldershot Bombing
22nd February, 1972 : The IRA plant a bomb at the 16th Parachute Brigade headquarters at Aldershot, Hampshire killing 5 women and an army priest.
1972 U.S.A. Welfare Appointment
22nd February, 1972 : The real name of the person who was appointed head of the Aiken County Department of Public Welfare is Richard T. Poore . No pun was intended in this case, as Poore was actually a highly educated person who received a degree from Florida State University in 1966. However, some people most likely could not help but “make fun” of his last name at least a little bit, as he was chairman of the board for this county’s welfare agency (news headline read “Poore to Head Welfare Agency”). Poore had already worked at the county level in Anderson County for quite a few years when he assumed this position as head of Aiken County’s agency. Despite the play on words, Poore was thought of as a qualified individual.
1974 U.S.A. Attempt To Kill Nixon
22nd February, 1974 : An attempt was made to hijack a plane from the Baltimore-Washington International airport by Samuel Byck . If successful, he was planning on crashing the plane into the White House and killing President Richard Nixon.
1974 U.S.A. Patti Hearst Kidnappers
22nd February, 1974 : The ransom demanded by the kidnappers ( Symbionese Liberation Army ). of newspaper heiress, Patty Hearst of $2 million food handout to the hungry in slum areas throughout Los Angeles and San Francisco begins with many of the homeless refusing the handouts .
1980 U.S.A. United States Hockey Team
22nd February, 1980 : The United States hockey team, composed in great part of college players, defeat the defending champions and favorites to win the gold medal Soviet Union squad by 4-3.
1989 U.S.A. Tina Turner
22nd February, 1989 : Tina Turner had won a Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocalist at age 49 during this year, on this date. She originally had recorded with her husband Ike Turner, however, she had left Ike in 1976. From that time until 1981 she had remained behind the scenes. After 1981, she became one of the oldest female artists in history to stage such a strong comeback, and she changed her tune from a style to Rock and Roll. Her first solo album Private Dancer had sold five million copies. She was introduced in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.
1991 U.S.A. Full Scale Was With Iraq
22nd February, 1991 : The US President, George Bush, has given Iraq until 1700 GMT tomorrow to pull out of Kuwait or face a full-scale war .
1994 U.S.A. Aldrich Ames Soviet Spy
22nd February, 1994 : Former Central Intelligence Agency veteran Aldrich Ames and his wife, Rosario, are charged with selling national security secrets to the Soviet Union.
He later received a sentence of life imprisonment, and his wife received a 5-year prison sentence for conspiracy to commit espionage and tax evasion
1998 U.S.A. Tornadoes Florida
22nd February, 1998 : Central Florida was hit by fatal tornadoes that had taken 42 people. Seven twisters in all had swept through this area, and quite a bit of damage had occurred in Kissimmee, Orlando, and surrounding areas.
2001 Netherlands War Crimes Tribunal
22nd February, 2001 : A U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague convicts three Bosnian Serbs on charges of rape and torture.
2006 Great Britain Securitas Bank Robbery
22nd February, 2006 : A armed gang steal £53 million from the Securitas bank depot in Kent. It was the largest such theft in British history
