History for February 22

History for February 22 - On-This-Day.com

Edward M. Kennedy 1932

• George Washington (U.S.) 1732 - First President of the United States.
• 1819 - Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
• 1855 - The U.S. Congress voted to appropriate $200,000 for continuance of the work on the Washington Monument.
• 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.
• 1973 - The U.S. and Communist China agreed to establish liaison offices.
• 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.