Thursday, February 22, 2018

History for February 22

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History for February 22 - On-This-Day.com:
George Washington (U.S.) 1732 - First President of the United States., James Russell Lowell 1819, Robert Baden-Powell 1857
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Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892, Robert Young 1907, Edward M. Kennedy 1932  Lea Salonga 1971
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1630 - Quadequine introduced popcorn to English colonists at their first Thanksgiving dinner.
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1819 - Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
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1855 - The U.S. Congress voted to appropriate $200,000 for continuance of the work on the Washington Monument. The next morning the resolution was tabled and it would be 21 years before the Congress would vote on funds again. Work was continued by the Know-Nothing Party in charge of the project.
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1879 - In Utica, NY, Frank W. Woolworth opened his first 5 and 10-cent store.
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1885 - The Washington Monument was officially dedicated in Washington, DC. It opened to the public in 1889.
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1923 - The first successful chinchilla farm opened in Los Angeles, CA. It was the first farm of its kind in the U.S.
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1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House.
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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.
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