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On This Day in History
Trent Sound’s daily round-up of the events of today in bygone years - these are the news stories & worldwide events making the news on 22 February 2012 in years gone by:
1630 - Popcorn was introduced to English colonists in the USA when some Red Indians brought a bag of the stuff over to dinner
1797 – The last invasion of Britain began near Fishguard, Wales, as the revolutionary French fought a brief campaign during the war of the first coalition
1819 – Spain sold Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
1856 – The Republican Party of America opened its first national meeting in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opened the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores
1888 - John Reid of Scotland demonstrated golf to Americans in New York for the first time
1907 - The first cabs with meters began operating in London
1907 - Showman Joshua Duckworth opened the first purpose-built cinema in Britain in Colne, Lancashire
1912 - J Vedrines made the first aeroplane flight over 100 mph
1915 – In World War I, Germany started unrestricted submarine warfare
1916 - The Asquith Government said that women doing men's jobs would be paid the same if they were equally efficient
1920 - The first artificial rabbit was used at a greyhound racing track in California
1922 – The British unilaterally declared the independence of Egypt
1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge became the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House
1935 - Aeroplanes were banned from flying over the White House
1956 - Elvis Presley entered the US music charts for the first time as Heartbreak Hotel began its climb to the number one spot
1956 - The first British football league match under floodlights took place when Portsmouth played Newcastle United. Newcastle won 2-0. Floodlights had been used before but not in the football league
1958 – Egypt and Syria joined to form the United Arab Republic
1963 - The Beatles started their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)
1964 - The Beatles arrived back in England after their first US visit
1968 - Genesis released their first single 'The Silent Sun'
1978 – ‘The Police’ appeared in a Wrigley's Chewing Gum commercial for US TV
1979 – Saint Lucia declared Independence from the United Kingdom
1980 – Miracle on Ice: the United States ice hockey team defeated the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3 at the Winter Olympics, in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history
1989 - The Finnish Ministry of Public Health brought in a 'sex vacation' to thwart stress
1989 - The first TV ad on Spanish Network Television was broadcast - It was for Coca Cola
1995 - Prime Minister John Major and Irish counterpart John Bruton produced a framework document to guide the peace negotiations in Northern Ireland
1997 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announced that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned
1997 - Jennifer Lopez married Ojani Noa, they separated a year later
2000 - Boxer Henry Cooper received a knighthood at Buckingham Palace
2000 - The engagement ring ‘Sex Pistol’ Sid Vicious gave to his girlfriend Nancy Spungen went on sale for auction at £1,500
2002 - Two middle-aged women spent the first of eight nights sleeping in a car outside Bournemouth International Centre to make sure they were first in the queue for when tickets to Cliff Richard's forthcoming concert went on sale
2002 - It emerged that Jennifer Lopez was available for private parties - and cost £1 million for a two-hour set, or £83,333 a minute.
2003 - Cerys Matthews married US record producer Seth Riddle at a church in Trevine near Fishguard, Wales
2004 - The Sex Pistols' 'Anarchy in the UK' was named the most influential record of the 1970s in poll compiled by Q magazine
2005 - Britney Spears and movie bosses were sued by a scriptwriter who claimed he came up for the idea for Spears' debut teen drama “Crossroads”
2005 - Figures showed that former Tory leader William Hague had earned around 820 thousand pounds in speaking fees in the previous year
2006 – At least six men staged Britain's biggest robbery ever, stealing £53 million from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent
2006 - Apple's iTunes store sold its one billionth song
2009 - Jade Goody married Jack Tweed, at Hatfield Heath, Hertfordshire. A few weeks later she died of cancer.
2009 - The last ever bag of Woolworths’ pick ‘n’ mix sweets was auctioned off on eBay for around 14 thousand pounds.
2010 - Amy Williams won Britain’s first solo Winter Olympics gold medal for 30 years
