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Be Humble Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Mana’olana: Hope PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Hop: Hope HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —“Life is placed where it can take only a brief flight.”
HAOLE QUOTE OF THE DAY —“I wasn’t kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth.” – Chico Marx
TODAY: New credit card regulations kick in today, giving consumers minor relief from predatory practices of usurers. Here’s what the Fed says >
Today: Two year later, the future of some insolvent U.S. banks is hopeless. The possibility of nationalizing them is discussed by both Republicans and Democrats. Read more >
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — February 22nd
- 1630: Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn
- 1856: 1st national meeting of the Republican Party (Pittsburgh, PA)
- 1888: John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers, NY)
- 1889: Dakotas, Montana & Washington admitted to the union
- 1923: Transcontinental airmail service begins
- 1935: Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
- 1956: Elvis Presley’s first hit in Billboard’s top 10: “Heartbreak Hotel”
- 1980: US Olympic hockey team unexpectedly defeats the USSR team 4-to-3 at Lake Placid, NY (the team goes on to win the gold medal)
- 1994: The Justice Department charges 31-year CIA veteran Aldrich Ames and his wife, Rosario, with selling national security secrets to the Soviet Union
- 2001: A UN war crimes tribunal convicts three Bosnian Serbs on charges of rape and torture in the first case of wartime sexual enslavement to go before an international court
- 2006: Insurgents destroy the golden dome of one of Iraq’s holiest Shiite shrines, the Askariya mosque in Samarra, setting off sectarian violence
BORN ON THIS DAY — February 22nd
- 1732: George Washington, general/1st US president
- 1778: Rembrandt Peale, portrait/historical painter
- 1810: Frédéric Chopin, pianist/composer
- 1857: Lord Robert Baden-Powell, (founder Boy Scouts)
- 1891: “Chico” Marx, actor/comedian
- 1892: Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/writer/feminist
- 1908: John Mills, actor
- 1925: Edward Gorey, author/artist
- 1932: Edward “Ted” Kennedy, Senator (D-MA)
- 1932: Piper Laurie, actress
- 1938: Ishmael Reed, author
- 1944: Jonathan Demme, actor/director
- 1950: Julius Erving, ABA/NBA forward
- 1950: Julie Walters, actress
- 1955: David Axelrod, senior White House adviser
- 1963: Vijay Singh, PGA golfer
- 1972: Michael Chang, tennis pro
- 1975: Drew Barrymore, actress
DIED ON THIS DAY — February 22nd
- 1512: Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and explorer (b. 1454)
- 1797: Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)
- 1875: Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (b. 1796)
- 1875: Sir Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist (b. 1797)
- 1890: John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (b. 1822)
- 1903: Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
- 1944: Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mohandas Gandhi (b. 1869)
- 1965: Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1882)
- 1987: Andy Warhol, American artist, director, and writer (b. 1928)
- 1994: Papa John Creach, American musician (b. 1917)
- 1995: Ed Flanders, American actor (b. 1934)
- 1998: Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)
- 2002: Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963)
