476 Historic Events for February 22
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| 1896 |
Birth |
Edvin Wide, Sweden, 10K runner (Olympic-silver-1924)
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| 1898 |
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Anton de Kom, Surinam/Dutch worker's union leader/resistance fighter
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| 1898 |
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Black postmaster lynched, his wife and 3 daughters shot in Lake City SC
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| 1899 |
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Dwight Frye, Salina KS, actor (Black Camel, Dracula, Frankenstein)
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| 1900 |
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Battle at Wynne's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
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| 1900 |
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Hawaii became a US territory
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| 1900 |
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Luis Bru¤el, Calanda Spain, director (Tristana, Phantom of Liberty)
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| 1900 |
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Sean O'Faolain, [John Whelan], Ire, writer (Murder at Cobbler's Hulk)
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| 1900 |
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Evald Aav, composer
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| 1900 |
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Giorgios Seferis, Greece, poet (Nobel 1963)
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| 1901 |
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Stefan Lorant, writer
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| 1901 |
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Mildred Davis, PA, actress (Grandma's Boy)
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| 1901 |
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Charles E Whittaker, Kansas, US Supreme Court justice (1957-62)
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| 1902 |
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Hanns Neupert, German piano builder/author (Das Klavichord)
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| 1903 |
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Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water
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| 1903 |
Death |
Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Austrian composer (Corregidor), dies at 42
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| 1903 |
Birth |
Morley Callaghan, Canada, author (Toronto Star, Native Argosy)
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| 1903 |
Death |
Frederick William Farrar, writer/dean (Canterbury 1895-1903), dies
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| 1904 |
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Peter Hurd, Roswell NM, painter (Portrait of Jos‚ Herrera)
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| 1905 |
Birth |
Luis Sandi, composer
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| 1906 |
Birth |
Gale Gordon, LA Calif, actor (Conklin-Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy)
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| 1906 |
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Edmund von Borck, composer
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| 1906 |
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Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in LA Calif
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| 1907 |
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Robert Young, Chic Ill, actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby MD)
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| 1907 |
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Sheldon Leonard, NYC, actor/director (Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie)
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