February 22, 2022
QUOTE
It’s good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people.
Johnny Cash
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BIRTHDAYS
1732 – George Washington
1907 – Robert Young, Actor
1934 – Sparky Anderson, Baseball player, manager
1949 – Niki Lauda, Austrian racing driver, 3 time F1 Champion
IN MEMORY
627 – Olivier van Noort, Dutch explorer.
1943 – Christoph Probst, Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, German anti-Nazi activists
2016 – Sonny James, Singer-songwriter and guitarist.
IN ON THIS DAY
1819 – Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million dollars.
1879 –Frank Woolworth opens the first of his “five-and-dime” Woolworth stores
1943 – World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
1980 – The United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team in what becomes The Miracle on Ice: