February 22
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1630 - OK, movie-goers, this one’s for you! Popcorn was introduced to English colonists when Quadequina, brother of Massasoit, brought a bag of the stuff over to dinner this day. The featured movie was, um, there was no featured movie, as they hadn’t been invented. So, the Indians had a big feast and sat around and watched the sun set. It was kinda like a movie...1879 - We won’t try to nickel and dime you with this nugget, but it is a fact that Frank W. Woolworth opened his first 5 and 10-cent store. Woolworth’s opened in Utica, New York. Sales at the first store were disappointing ... until Mr. Woolworth moved his operation to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and later, to the entire U.S.A. Remember the lunch counter at F. W. Woolworth’s? You could get a burger and a real vanilla soda or a lime rickey there for about a buck. Those were the days...
1919 - The first dog race track to use an imitation rabbit opened -- in Emeryville, CA.
1923 - The first successful chinchilla farm opened -- in Los Angeles, CA. It was the first such farm in the U.S.
1931 - Maurice Chevalier recorded Walkin’ My Baby Back Home for Victor Records in New York City. The same tune was recorded 21 years later by Nat ‘King’ Cole and Johnny Ray. It became a major hit for both artists.
1941 - Gargantua the Great, “The world’s most terrifying living creature,” was married at Sarasota FL. The gorilla wed Mitoto in ceremonies at the Ringling Brothers winter circus headquarters. And, of course, everybody threw bananas instead of rice at the happy couple.
1941 - The Nazis begin rounding up Jews in Amsterdam and deported them -- first to the Buchenwald concentration camp and then to the Mauthausen concentration camp.
1942 - President Franklin Roosevelt ordered General Douglas MacArthur to leave the Philippines.
1943 - The battleship USS Iowa, the first in the Navy’s 45,000 ton class, was commissioned. (The ship was decommissioned in 1990.)
1949 - Gorgeous George and Ernie Dusek ushered in a brand new era in professional wrestling, with the debut of “flying leaps, sequins and schmaltz,” according to the sports scribes covering the event. Gorgeous George won the match in front of 4,197 fans at Madison Square Garden.
1954 - ABC radio’s popular Breakfast Club, program with longtime host, Don McNeill, was simulcast on TV beginning this day. The telecast of the show was a bomb, but the radio program went on to break records as the longest-running program on the air.
1956 - Elvis Presley’s Heartbreak Hotel began its climb to the number one spot on pop charts, reaching the top two weeks later (for eight straight weeks).
1958 - Roy Hamilton’s record, Don’t Let Go, became #13 in its first week on the record charts. The song was the first stereo record to make the pop music charts. 1958 was the year for several stereo recordings, including Hang Up My Rock and Roll Shoes by Chuck Willis, Yakety Yak by the Coasters, Born Too Late by The Poni-Tails, It’s All in the Game by Tommy Edwards and What Am I Living For by Chuck Willis. Remember: If we were supposed to hear music in mono, we’d only have one ear! Thank you.
1965 - Filming began for the Beatles’ second movie, HELP!, in the Bahamas.
1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin became the first woman to win U.S. thoroughbred horse race. She was riding Cohesian at Charlestown Race Course in West Virginia.
1972 - President Richard M. Nixon met with Chinese Premier Zhou En-Lai in Peking, China. While Nixon and the Premier were busy making history, Pat Nixon was visiting the Peking Zoo. It was there that she fell in love with the zoo’s giant pandas. She expressed her fondness for the cute creatures to Zhou who later shipped pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing (Xing-Xing) to the U.S. as a diplomatic gesture of good will - known ever since as panda diplomacy. Mrs Nixon donated the pandas to the National Zoo in Washington, DC.
1976 - Florence Ballard, an original member of The Supremes, died in Detroit of cardiac arrest. She was 32 years old. She had either quit or been fired from the Supremes in 1967 because of a rivalry with lead singer Diana Ross. Ballard unsuccessfully sued both Ross and Motown Records boss Berry Gordy, alleging she was forced out of the group. Ballard and her three children were living on welfare at the time of her death. Ballard had said that she received no royalties prior to 1967 for any of her work with the Supremes.
1979 - St. Lucia gained full independence from Great Britain with Sir John Compton becoming the first prime minister.
1980 - A pivotal moment for ice hockey in the United States came on this day. The ‘Miracle on Ice’ U.S.
victory over Russia was a dramatic, come-from-behind, 4-3, victory. The U.S. went on to defeat Finland, 4-2, two days later to win the gold medal -- at the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York.1987 - Tze-Chung ‘T.C.’ Chen won his first PGA golf tour title in five years at the Los Angeles Open. Chen defeated Ben Crenshaw on the first playoff hole of the tournament.
1987 - Pop Artist and celebrity voyeur Andy Warhol died of a heart attack following routine gall bladder surgery in New York City. He was 58 years old.
1988 - Two Soviet warships bumped two U.S. navy vessels in waters claimed by the Soviet Union. The incident between the ships took place in the Black Sea, off the Crimean peninsula. The American destroyer Caron and cruiser Yorktown were operating within the 12-mile territorial limit claimed by the Soviet Union. They were challenged by a Soviet frigate and destroyer and told to leave the waters. Then, according to a Navy spokesman, the Soviet ships “shouldered” the U.S. ships out of the way, bumping them slightly.
1989 - Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini, who had sentenced author Salman Rushdie to death, said economic sanctions by the U.S. and other countries would not change his position on Rushdie’s book, The Satanic Verses. Khomeini said publication of the book was a sign from God that Iran should not reach out to the West.
1990 - Former U.S. President Reagan’s videotaped testimony for the trial of former national security adviser John Poindexter was released in Washington. In the deposition, Reagan said he never had “any inkling” that his aides were secretly arming the Nicaraguan Contras.
1992 - Kristi Yamaguchi of the United States won the gold medal in women’s figure skating at the Albertville Olympics. Although she fell while performing a triple loop, she committed far fewer errors than her rivals, thus getting the gold medal. Midori Ito of Japan won the silver, Nancy Kerrigan of the United States the bronze. “Yamaguchi crafted her title on a feathery vision of artistic precision and elegance, with near total disdain for the latest trends in acrobatic jumping,” wrote Michael Janofsky in the New York Times.
1995 - At a news conference, British Prime Minister John Major and his Irish counterpart, John Bruton, unveiled a plan they hoped would bring peace to Northern Ireland.
1998 - As the Nagano Winter Olympics wound down, the Czech Republic defeated Russia 1-to-0 to win men’s hockey. And Bjorn Daehlie, the Norwegian cross-country skier, extended his Winter Olympics record by picking up his 12th medal (his eighth gold) in the last race at Nagano: the 50-kilometer cross-country race.
1998 - The revival version of The King and I closed at the Neil Simon Theatre on Broadway. The show, starring Lou Diamond Phillips, enjoyed a run of 780 performances.
1999 - New York City Mayor Giuliani put into effect a plan that allowed police to seize the vehicles of drunken drivers.
1999 - The Pinkerton detective agency was sold to the Swedish company Securitas AB for $384 million.
2000 - Senator John McCain beat Governor George W. Bush in the Michigan primary 50-43% and in the Arizona primary 60-30%.
2001 - A U.N. war crimes tribunal convicted three Bosnian Serbs standing trial on charges of rape and torture. It was the first case of wartime sexual enslavement to go before an international court.
2002 - New movies in the U.S.: Dragonfly, with Kevin Costner, Joe Morton, Ron Rifkin, Linda Hunt, Susanna Thompson, Jacob Vargas and Kathy Bates; Queen of the Damned, starring Stuart Townsend, Aaliyah, Marguerite Moreau, Vincent Perez and Lena Olin.
2002 - Police in San Diego arrested David Westerfield for the kidnapping of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, a neighbor girl; Westerfield was later sentenced to death for Danielle’s murder.
2003 - Some 2,000 cat lovers marched in Rome, Italy’s first Cat Pride march. The protesters demanded protection for the capital city’s many, local stray cats.
2004 - The final TV episode of Sex and the City aired after its six-season HBO run.
2005 - Winn-Dixie Stores Inc., which had struggled to compete against Wal-Mart and other grocery chains, announced that it had filed for bankruptcy reorganization.
2006 - A Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent, England was robbed and the thieves made off with Bank of England banknotes worth £53 million (about US$92.5 million).
2007 - A U.S. federal judge ordered Microsoft to pay $1.52 billion to Alcatel-Lucent SA for infringing a patent on technology for digital music.
2008 - Debut day in U.S. theatres for: Charlie Bartlett, with Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey Jr., Hope Davis, Tyler Hilton, Jake Epstein, Lauren Collins, Dylan Taylor, Mark Rendall, Kat Dennings and Derek McGrath; Cover, starring Vivica A. Fox, Louis Gossett Jr. and Paula Jai Parker; Vantage Point, starring Dennis Quaid, William Hurt, Matthew Fox, Sigourney Weaver, Forest Whitaker, Zoe Saldana, Edgar Ramirez, Eduarodo Noriega and Shelby Fenner; and Witless Protection, with Larry the Cable Guy, Ivana Milicevic, Yaphet Kotto, Peter Stormare, Eric Roberts, Joe Mantegna and Jenny McCarthy.
2009 - The United Arab Emirates announced that it was going to spend $10 billion to bail out Dubai, whose huge construction and financial sector expansion plans had slowed under the world wide financial downturn.
2009 - The 81st annual Academy Awards party was thrown at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The host of the program (televised in the United States on ABC-TV) was Australian actor, performer Hugh Jackman. And the winners were: Picture: Slumdog Millionaire (won 8 Oscars); Director: Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire; Actor in a Leading Role: Sean Penn (his second Oscar) in Milk; Actress in a Leading Role: Kate Winslet in The Reader; Actor in a Supporting Role: Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight; Actress in a Supporting Role: Penélope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona; The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award was presented to comedian, actor, humanitarian Jerry Lewis.
2010 - The U.N. predicted that sales of household electrical gizmos would boom across the developing world in the 2010-2020 decade, wreaking environmental havoc -- if there were no plans put forth to deal with the discarded TVs, cell phones and computers.
2011 - Rahm Emanuel, former White House Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama, was elected mayor of Chicago, overwhelming five rivals.
2012 - The Rio Tinto mining company reported that it had unearthed a ‘remarkable’ 12.76-carat pink diamond in Australia. It was the largest of the rare and precious stones ever found in the country.
2013 - Movies opening in the U.S.: Dark Skies, with Keri Russell, Dakota Goyo, J.K. Simmons, Josh Hamilton, Michael Patrick McGil, Annie Thurman, Trevor St. John and Alyvia Alyn Lind; Snitch, starring Dwayne Johnson, Nadine Velazquez, Harold Perrineau, Susan Sarandon, Michael Kenneth Williams, Jon Bernthal , Barry Pepper, Benjamin Bratt and Melina Kanakaredes; and Bless Me, Ultima, with Luke Ganalon, Miriam Colo, Benito Martinez, Dolores Heredia, Castulo Guerra, Joaquín Cosio and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo.
2013 - U.S. scientists prepared to drop dead mice laced with painkillers on Guam’s jungle canopy in an attempt to eradicate the brown tree snake, a headache that has caused Guam misery for more than 60 years. As of February 2014, four mice drops had been made. The U.S. Interior and Defense Departments joined in the $8 million project, where the tricky part turned out to be getting the poisoned bait to the snakes, which hang out in trees. The potential solution was to attach the dead rodents to streamers that act as weak parachutes, then drop them from helicopters into the trees. The streamers get snagged in branches and the snakes have a feast...
2014 - Iraq’s defense ministry announced a 72-hour halt to military operations in Fallujah, which had been held for weeks by anti-government fighters of the Islamic State in Ira (ISIL). The gunmen had also seized parts of Ramadi. 4 military officers and five soldiers were killed as bombs targeted an army patrol in al-Saadiyah. And in Tikrit blasts near the homes of local security and civilian officials killed five people and wounded 18.
2015 - Israel said it would purchase 14 additional next-generation U.S. F-35 fighter jets for some $3 billion.
2015 - And the Oscar went to... Birdman (picture); Eddie Redmayne (actor: The Theory of Everything); Julianne Moore (actress: Still Alice) as the 87th Academy Awards Ceremony was held in Los Angeles.
2016 - POTUS Barack Obama sent lawmakers a $1.9 billion request to combat the spread of the Zika virus. (After bickering for 7 months, Congress finally approved $1.1 billion on Sep 28. The lawmakers grudingly included the funds in a broader agreement to continue to fund the government after its budget expired.)
2016 - Cuban President Raul Castro announced that he was dispatching 9,000 soldiers to help keep the Zika virus out of Cuba, calling on the entire country to fight the mosquito that carried the disease.
2017 - People in the U.S. viewed Russian President Vladimir Putin more positively than they did in 2015, with his image rising sharply among Republicans. The Gallup poll found that 22 percent of the public had a favorable view of Putin, up from 13 percent -- and the highest rating he had received since 2003. Some 72 percent, however, still viewed Putin unfavorably, Gallup found.
2017 - And Nearly six in 10 Americans polled did not think Donald Trump understood the complicated problems a president faces. There was continued concern about Mr. Trump’s ability to handle an international crisis. Sixty-two percent were uneasy about his approach, and only 35 percent said they were confident about his ability to deal with an international crisis.
2018 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission [FCC] published its final order reversing net neutrality regulations.
2018 - Deaths on this day included: Nanette Fabray (age 97), American TV and stage star, died at her home in southern California. She won three Emmy Awards for her work on the TV show Caesar’s Hour. Her films included The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex and The Band Wagon (1953). And Richard Taylor (age 88), Stanford physicist, died at his home on the Stanford campus. He shared the 1990 Nobel Prize for his role in the discovery of quarks.
2019 - Films opening in U.S. theatres included: The animate How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, featuring characters voiced by Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, F. Murray Abraham, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Kristen Wiig; The Changeover, starring Timothy Spall, Melanie Lynskey and Lucy Lawless; The Iron Orchard with Austin Nichols, Ali Cobrin and Lane Garrison; Paddleton, starring Mark Duplass, Ray Romano and Alexandra Billings; Run the Race, with Mykelti Williamson, Frances Fisher and Kristoffer Polaha; and Trading Paint, starring John Travolta, Rosabell Laurenti Sellers and Michael Madsen.
2019 - Ariana Grande was the first artist since the Beatles to have songs in the top three spots of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The three songs, from her 5th studio album, Thank U, Next, were 7 Rings [#1], Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored, [#2] and Thank U, Next [#3]. The Beatles were the first to achieve this feat back in 1964 with their iconic songs Can’t Buy Me Love, Twist and Shout, and Do You Want to Know a Secret, which together topped the charts for five weeks.
2019 - R&B star R. Kelly was indicted in Chicago on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. At least nine of the counts involved minors. The indictments came just weeks after a documentary series called Surviving R Kelly aired. It contained decades of allegations of abuse against R Kelly, from many women, including the singer’s ex-wife.
2020 - A person was struck by a float and fatally injured during one of the iconic parades of the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. It was the second death at the 2020 festivities.
2020 - A dozen towns in northern Italy were locked down after the deaths of two people infected with the COVID-19 virus from China. Secondary coronavirus contagions prompted local authorities in the Lombardy and Veneto regions to order schools, businesses, and restaurants closed, and to cancel sporting events and Masses.
2021 - Ukraine accused unnamed Russian internet networks of massive attacks on Ukrainian security websites. Kyiv had previously accused Moscow of orchestrating large cyber attacks as part of a “hybrid war” against Ukraine.
2021 -Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. acquired Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. in a deal with an equity value of $2.8 billion that combined the two century-old Ohio tire manufacturers.
2021 - The U.S. Supreme Court said a New York City prosecutor could obtain Donald Trump’s tax returns and other records as part of an accelerating criminal investigation of him.
2021 - New Jersey became the 14th state where marijuana was legal for recreational use. Legislation signed by Governor Phil Murphy this day decriminalized the use or possession of up to six ounces of cannabis, ending an era of disproportionate arrests in communities of color.
2021 - French authorities said the Riviera between Menton and Theoule-sur-Mer would lock down for two weekends in an attempt to fight a sharp spike in coronavirus infections. The French Riviera had France’s highest COVID-19 infection rate at the time.
2022 - The U.S. women’s soccer team reached a settlement in its class action equal pay lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation. U.S. Soccer agreed to pay $22 million in back pay to the players, distributed in a manner proposed by players and approved by the court. The federation also agreed to put $2 million into a fund for USWNT players’ post-career goals and charitable efforts, with each player able to apply for up to $50,000. And the federation promised to provide an equal rate of pay between the men’s and women’s national senior teams in all friendlies and tournaments, including the World Cup.
2022 - Three white men were convicted of chasing down and murdering a young Black man, Ahmaud Arbery, as he was out jogging in suburban Brunswick, Georgia. The trio was found guilty of committing federal hate crimes and other offenses in the 2020 killing.
2022 - Sea ice around Antarctica reached a record low (since the start of the satellite record in 1979), according to analysis by the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, CO.
2023 - Astronomers reported that Webb telescope data was upending existing theories of how early galaxies were formed. This, after finding six massive galaxies 100x larger than expected that were formed soon after the Big Bang.
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Birthdays on This Day February 22
1732 - George Washington
1st U.S. President [1789-1797]; “I cannot tell a lie...” ; died Dec. 14, 17991778 - Rembrandt Peale
artist: painted hundreds of portraits, member of the famous Peale family of artists; died Oct 4, 18601810 - Frederic Francois Chopin
composer: of more than 200 compositions for solo piano; died Oct 17, 18491819 - James Russell Lowell
essayist, poet: A Fable for Critics, The Biglow Papers, The Vision of Sir Launfal, Commemoration Ode, The Cathedral; first editor of Atlantic Monthly, co-editor: North American Review; founded The Pioneer literary magazine; died Aug 12, 18911857 - Robert Baden-Powell
founder: British Boy Scout Association; died Jan 8, 19411907 - Robert (George) Young
Emmy Award-winning actor: Father Knows Best, [1958], Marcus Welby M.D. [1970], The Bride Wore Red, Crossfire, Honolulu, Northwest Passage; died July 21, 19981907 - Sheldon Leonard (Bershad)
actor: It’s a Wonderful Life, Guys and Dolls; Emmy Award-winning Director: The Danny Thomas Show [1957, 1961], and Executive Producer: My World and Welcome to It [1970]; died Jan 10, 19971908 - Sir John Mills
actor: Frankenstein, A Tale of Two Cities, Around the World in 80 Days, Gandhi, Oklahoma Crude, Ryan’s Daughter, King Rat, The Swiss Family Robinson, War and Peace, Great Expectations, Goodbye Mr. Chips, The Ghost Camera; father of actresses Juliet and Hayley Mills; died April 23, 20051915 - Dan Seymour
actor: The Manhandlers, Unholy Rollers, The Buster Keaton Story, The Big Heat, Escape to Witch Mountain, Rancho Notorious, Trail of the Yukon, Dangerous Assignment; died May 25, 19931917 - Charles O. (Oscar) Finley
baseball owner: KC Athletics, Oakland Athletics: last team to win three consecutive World Series [1972-1974]; “He pinched pennies and built winners.”; died Feb 20, 19961918 - Sid (Sidney) Abel
hockey: NHL: Detroit Red Wings [NHL MVP: 1949], Chicago Blackhawks; died Feb 8, 20001918 - Don Pardo
radio and TV announcer: The Price Is Right, Jackpot, Jeopardy!, Three on a Match, Winning Streak, NBC Nightly News; voice of Saturday Night Live for 38 seasons [1975-2014]; died Aug 18, 20141918 - Robert Wadlow
tallest recorded man [8' 11.1"]; died July 15, 19401926 - Bud Yorkin
Emmy Award-winning director: An Evening with Fred Astaire [1959] and The Jack Benny Specials [1960]; died Aug 18, 20151928 - Paul Dooley
actor: The Underneath, Flashback, Last Rites, Sixteen Candles, Endangered Species, Paternity, Slap Shot, Breaking Away, The Player1929 - James Hong
actor: Big Trouble in Little China, The Human Vapor, Seinfeld, The New Adventures of Charlie Chan, Hawaii Five-O [1969-1974], Kung Fu [1972-1975], Dynasty, Falcon Crest, MacGyver, Doogie Howser, M.D. [1991-1992], Martial Law, The West Wing [2000-2002], Jackie Chan Adventures [2002-2004], Pair of Kings1932 - Edward ‘Ted’ Kennedy
U.S. Senator from Massachusetts [1962-2009]; brother of 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy and U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy; died Aug 25, 20091934 - Sparky (George Lee) Anderson
Baseball Hall of Famer: Philadelphia Phillies; manager: Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers; died Nov 4, 20101936 - Ernie K-Doe (Ernest Kador Jr.)
singer, songwriter: Mother-In-Law; died July 5, 20011940 - Chet Walker
basketball: Chicago Bulls1944 - Jonathan Demme
Academy Award-winning director: Silence of the Lambs; Philadelphia, Married to the Mob, Swimming to Cambodia, Swing Shift, Melvin and Howard, Last Embrace, Caged Heat; playwright: Fighting Mad, Caged Heat, Hot Box, Angels Hard as They Come; died Apr 26, 20171944 - Tom Okker
tennis: Men’s Professional Tour record holder for most doubles titles in a career [78]1945 - Oliver (Swofford)
singer: Jean, Good Morning Starshine; died Feb 12, 20001948 - John Ashton
actor: M*A*S*H, Midnight Run, Dallas, Beverly Hills Cop, Beverly Hills Cop II, Some Kind of Wonderful, Little Big League, Gone Baby Gone, Middle Men, A Letter to Dad1949 - Niki (Andreas Nikolaus) Lauda
Grand Prix Hall of Fame auto racer: victories: Spain, Holland [1974]; Monaco, Belgium, Sweden, France, USA [1975]; Brazil, S. Africa, Belgium, Monaco, Britain [1976]; S. Africa, Germany, Holland [1977]; Sweden, Italy [1978]; USA, Britain [1982]; S. African, France, Britain, Austria, Italy [1984]; Holland [1985]1950 - Julius Erving II
Basketball Hall of Famer: Univ of Massachusetts, ABA: Virginia Squires [1971-1973], NY Nets [1973-1976], NBA: Philadelphia 76ers [Dr. J.: 1976-1987], the third pro player to score more than 30,000 career points [after Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar]; executive: Orlando Magic1950 - Miou-Miou (Sylvette Héry)
actress: Little Indian Big City, Going Places, Entre Nous, La Lectrice1950 - Julie Walters
actress: Just like a Woman, The Summer House, Mack the Knife, Pick Up Your Ears, Educating Rita1951 - Ellen Greene
actress: Little Shop of Horrors, Pushing Daisies, Privileged, Fielder’s Choice, Alex in Wonder, One Fine Day, Wagons East, Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can, Léon, Talk Radio, Pump Up the Volume, Miami Vice, Glory! Glory!, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Cybill, Law & Order, Suddenly Susan, The X-Files1952 - Bill Frist
U.S. Senator from Tennessee [1995-2007]: Senate Majority Leader [2003-2007]1956 - Amy Alcott
golf champion: U.S. Open [1980], Nabisco Dinah Shore [1983, 1988, 1991], Du Maurier Classic [1979]1959 - Kyle MacLachlan
actor: Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, The Flintstones, Dune, In Justice, Desperate Housewives1962 - Steve Irwin
naturalist, wildlife expert, TV host: Animal Planet: Crocodile Hunter; director of Australia Zoo, Queensland, Australia; died after stingray attack Sep 4, 2006 near Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia1963 - Vijay Singh
golf champ: dozens of PGA Tour victories
1964 - Ed Boon
video game programmer: Mortal Kombat series1965 - Chris Dudley
basketball [center]: Yale Univ; NBA: Cleveland Cavaliers, New Jersey Nets, Portland Trail Blazers, Phoenix Suns, New York Knicks1966 - Rachel Dratch
commedian, actress: Second City comedy troupe, Saturday Night Live, Martin & Orloff, The Hebrew Hammer, Down with Love, Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, Click, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Spring Breakdown, My Life in Ruins1967 - Paul Lieberstein
Emmy Award-winning screenwriter, producer [King of the Hill (1999)], actor: The Office1968 - Jeri Ryan
actress: Star Trek: Voyager, Shark, Down with Love, Dracula 2000, Men Cry Bullets, Pier 66, Co-ed Call Girl, Matlock: The Fatal Seduction, Ambush in Waco: In the Line of Duty1969 - Thomas Jane
actor: Deep Blue Sea, 61*, The Punisher, The Mist, Hung, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, I Melt with You, LOL, Dirty Laundry1969 - Clinton Kelly
TV host: What Not to Wear; more1971 - Jason Marshall
hockey: NHL: St. Louis Blues, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Washington Capitals, Minnesota Wild, San Jose Sharks1971 - Lea Salonga
singer; Tony Award-winning actress: Miss Saigon [1991]; Les Misérables, films: Aladdin, Mulan1972 - John Halama
baseball [pitcher]: Houston Astros, Seattle Mariners, Oakland Athletics, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Boston Red Sox, Washington Nationals, Baltimore Orioles1973 - Scott Phillips
musician: drums: co-founder of groups Creed, Alter Bridge, Projected1975 - Drew Barrymore
actress: Bad Girls, Irreconcilable Differences, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Altered States, Wayne’s World 2, Batman Forever, Scream, The Wedding Singer, Charlie’s Angels, Riding in Cars with Boys, 50 First Dates; autobiography [at age 14]: Little Lost Girl; daughter of actor/director John Barrymore Jr.; granddaughter of actor John Barrymore Sr.; great-niece of actors Ethel Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore1977 - Reggie Kelly
football [tight end]: Mississippi State Univ; NFL: Atlanta Falcons [1999–2002], Cincinnati Bengals [2003–2010]; Atlanta Falcons [2011]1982 - Jenna Haze
actress [2001-2012]: X-rated films: Backseat Confidential, Portraits of a Porn Star, Sexual Rhythm, Penetration Nation, Cheaters Caught or Not1983 - Jennifer Ketcham aka Penny Flame
blogger, actress [2002-2009]: X-rated films: Naked! Bound! Helpless!, Double Decker Sandwich 7, Blazed & Confused: The Hunt for Maui Wowwee, Expert Guide to the G-Spot, Celebrity Pornhab with Dr. Screw1986 - Rajon Rondo
basketball: NBA: Boston Celtics [2006–2014]: 2008 NBA champions; Dallas Mavericks [2014–2015]; Sacramento Kings [2015–2016]; Chicago Bulls [2016–2017]; New Orleans Pelicans [2017–2018]; Los Angeles Lakers [2018-2020]: 2020 NBA champs; Atlanta Hawks [2021]; Los Angeles Clippers [2021]; Los Angeles Lakers [2021-2022]; Cleveland Cavaliers [2022]
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Hit Music on This Day February 22
1947For Sentimental Reasons (facts) - Nat King Cole
The Anniversary Song (facts) - Dinah Shore
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