Today in History, 2/22

This is my 100th post on this blog, which is 98 more posts than my old blog got.1295 BC: Ramses II is crowned. Here's his temple at Abu Simbel.
1732: George Washington is born.
1819: Spain sells Florida to the US for five million dollars.
1856: The Republican Party opens its first national conference in Pittsburgh, PA.
1857: Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts, is born.
1879: Frank Woolworth opens his first five-and-dime in Utica, NY.1899: Dwight Frye is born. He played Renfield in the 1931 version of Dracula.
1904: The United Kingdom recognizes the South Orkney Islands as being a part of Argentina. It would change its mind in in 1908.

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1908: Sir John Mills is born, English actor is born. Apparently, he is one of the most beloved English actors of all time but I've never heard of him. Not only that, but he's done more movies than John Carradine and I haven't seen a single one. So, I'll have to check out something he's done. He played the abolitionist William Wilberforce in the movie The Young Mr. Pitt, which isn't out on DVD. That's for my Dad, as we were just talking about William Wilberforce last night.1915: During WWI, Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
1918: Don Pardo is born.
1920: In Emeryville, NY the first dog track to use a motorized rabbit opens.
1924: Calvin Coolidge becomes the first president to deliver a radio address from the White House.
1925: Edward Gorey is born.1926: Kenneth Williams is born. He's the star of the seemingly endless series of British Carry On! films. Good Lord, there's even a Carry On Emmannuelle!
1928: Paul Dooley is born. He played the Dad in Sixteen Candles and clown entrepeneur Owen Cheese in Shakes the Clown.1929: Rebecca Schull is born. She played Fay on the sitcom Wings.
1930: Marni Nixon is born. She did Debra Kerr's singing in The King and I and Natalie Wood's singing in West Side Story and Audrey Hepburn's singing in My Fair Lady. She didn't actually get on camera until she played Sister Sophia in The Sound of Music.
1932: Ted Kennedy is born.
1935: It becomes illegal for airplanes to fly over the White House.
1942: FDR orders Mac Arthur to retreat from the Philippines. They didn't get along very well (two prima donnas, if you ask me) and FDR was astonished at Mac Arthur's lack of action during the first days of the war.
1942: Christine Keeler is born. When her affair with British Secretary of War John Profumo was discovered it nearly brought down the government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.1944: Johnathan Demme is born.
1950: Julius Erving is born.
1953: Nigel Planer is born. He played the hippie Neil on The Young Ones.1959: Kyle MacLachlan is born.
1968: Jeri Ryan is born. She played the reformed Borg "Seven of Nine" on Star Trek: Voyager. I wonder why her character was so popular? 1974: Samuel Byck fails to assassinate Nixon.1975: Drew Barrymore is born.
1979: Saint Lucia gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1980: The US Olympic hockey team defeats the Soviets 4-3.