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02/22/1896
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Edvin Wide, Sweden, 10K runner (Olympic-silver-1924)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1898
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Anton de Kom, Surinam/Dutch worker's union leader/resistance fighter
Type: Birth
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02/22/1898
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Black postmaster lynched, his wife and 3 daughters shot in Lake City SC
Type: Event
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02/22/1899
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Dwight Frye, Salina KS, actor (Black Camel, Dracula, Frankenstein)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1900
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Battle at Wynne's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
Type: Event
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02/22/1900
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Hawaii became a US territory
Type: Event
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02/22/1900
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Luis Bru¤el, Calanda Spain, director (Tristana, Phantom of Liberty)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1900
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Sean O'Faolain, [John Whelan], Ire, writer (Murder at Cobbler's Hulk)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1900
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Evald Aav, composer
Type: Birth
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02/22/1900
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Giorgios Seferis, Greece, poet (Nobel 1963)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1901
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Stefan Lorant, writer
Type: Birth
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02/22/1901
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Mildred Davis, PA, actress (Grandma's Boy)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1901
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Charles E Whittaker, Kansas, US Supreme Court justice (1957-62)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1902
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Hanns Neupert, German piano builder/author (Das Klavichord)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1903
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Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water
Type: Event
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02/22/1903
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Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Austrian composer (Corregidor), dies at 42
Type: Death
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02/22/1903
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Morley Callaghan, Canada, author (Toronto Star, Native Argosy)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1903
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Frederick William Farrar, writer/dean (Canterbury 1895-1903), dies
Type: Death
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02/22/1904
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Peter Hurd, Roswell NM, painter (Portrait of Jos‚ Herrera)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1905
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Luis Sandi, composer
Type: Birth
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02/22/1906
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Gale Gordon, LA Calif, actor (Conklin-Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1906
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Edmund von Borck, composer
Type: Birth
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02/22/1906
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Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in LA Calif
Type: Event
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02/22/1907
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Robert Young, Chic Ill, actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby MD)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1907
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Sheldon Leonard, NYC, actor/director (Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1907
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1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London
Type: Event
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02/22/1907
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Leonid N Andreyev's "Zhizn Cheloveka," premieres in St Petersburg
Type: Event
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02/22/1908
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R˘mulo Betancourt, pres of Venezuela (1945-48, 1958-64)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1908
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John Mills, England, actor (Big Sleep, King Rat, War and Peace)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1909
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Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Va
Type: Event
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02/22/1909
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Roderick Barclay, diplomat
Type: Birth
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02/22/1910
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Nicholas Monsarrat, Liverpool England, novelist
Type: Birth
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02/22/1910
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Muriel Monkhouse, Red Cross worker
Type: Birth
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02/22/1910
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Al Sears, jazz performer
Type: Birth
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02/22/1912
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J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph
Type: Event
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02/22/1912
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Richard Andree, German geographer (Andree's Handatlas), dies at 76
Type: Death
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02/22/1913
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Lowell HS, SF opens (on it's 1st campus)
Type: Event
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02/22/1913
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Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure, Swiss linguist, dies at 55
Type: Death
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02/22/1913
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Suarez, Mexican vice pres, assassinated in a miltary coup
Type: Death
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02/22/1913
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Francisco Indalecio Madero, Mex pres, assassinated in milt coup at 39
Type: Death
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02/22/1915
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Dan Seymour, Chicago Ill, actor (We the People, Sing It Again)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1915
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Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war
Type: Event
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02/22/1915
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Gus Lesnevich, light heavyweight boxing champ (1947 fight of year)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1917
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Jane Bowles, writer
Type: Birth
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02/22/1917
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Jack Robertson, cricketer (superb Engld batsman only played 11 Tests)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1917
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Harmen van Rossum, civil servant/resistance fighter (WW II)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1917
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German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships
Type: Event
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02/22/1918
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Germany claims Baltic states, Finland and Ukraine from Russia
Type: Event
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02/22/1918
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Charles O Finley, baseball team owner (Oakland A's)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1918
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Sid Abel, NHLer (1948-49 Hart Trophy)
Type: Birth
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