History for February 22

History for February 22 - On-This-Day.com
George Washington (U.S.) 1732 - First President of the United States., Robert Baden-Powell 1857, Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892


Robert Young 1907, Edward M. Kennedy 1932, Drew Barrymore 1975 - Actress

1819 - Spain ceded Florida to the United States.


1859 - U.S. President Buchanan approved the Act of February 22, 1859, which incorporated the Washington National Monument Society "for the purpose of completing the erection now in progress of a great National Monument to the memory of Washington at the seat of the Federal Government."


1860 - Organized baseball’s first game was played in San Francisco, CA.


1879 - In Utica, NY, Frank W. Woolworth opened his first 5 and 10-cent store.


1885 - The Washington Monument was officially dedicated in Washington, DC. It opened to the public in 1889.


1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House.


1994 - The U.S. Justice Department charged Aldrich Ames and his wife with selling national secrets to the Soviet Union. Ames was later convicted to life in prison. Ames' wife received a 5-year prison term.


1997 - Scottish scientist Ian Wilmut and colleagues announced that an adult sheep had been successfully cloned. Dolly was actually born on July 5, 1996. Dolly was the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell.