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Today in History: February 22

1797 The last invasion of Britain takes place when some 1,400 Frenchmen land at Fishguard in Wales.

1825 Russia and Britain establish the Alaska/Canada boundary.

1862 Jefferson Davis is inaugurated president of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va. for the second time.

1879 Frank Winfield Woolworth's 'nothing over five cents' shop opens at Utica, New York. It is the first chain store.

1902 A fistfight breaks out in the Senate. Senator Benjamin Tillman suffers a bloody nose for accusing Senator John McLaurin of bias on the Philippine tariff issue.

1932 Adolf Hitler is the Nazi Party candidate for the presidential elections in Germany.

1951 The Atomic Energy Commission discloses information about the first atom-powered airplane.

1954 U.S. is to install 60 Thor nuclear missiles in Britain.


Born on February 22

1732George Washington, Commander-in-chief of Continental forces during the American Revolution and first U.S. President.

1944 Jonathan Demme, film director (The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia).


JOTD

If I had a nickel for every time I didn’t know what was going on...

...I’d be like “why do I keep getting all these fricking nickels?”