Today in History for 20th February 2022

Historical Events

1673 - 1st recorded wine auction held in London
1861 - Navy of the Confederate States (CSN) forms (US Civil War)
1922 - Vilnius, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland
1933 - Sidney Howard's "Alien Corn" premieres in NYC
1953 - August A. Busch buys St. Louis Cardinals MLB club from Fred Saigh for $3.75 million; pledges not to move the team from St. Louis, Missouri
1988 - Peter Kalikow purchases NY Post from Rupert Murdoch for $37.6 million

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Famous Birthdays

1633 - Jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher
1893 - Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist (d. 1993)
1907 - Nadine Conner [Henderson], American operatic soprano (Carmen; The Magic Flute - "Pamina"), born in Compton, California (d. 2003)
1956 - Charlie Adler, American voice actor (Tiny Toon Adventures) ,born in Paterson, New Jersey
1963 - Charles Barkley, American basketball forward (NBA MVP 1993, 11-time All Star, Olympic gold 1996), born in Leeds, Alabama
1994 - Brigid Kosgei, Kenyan athlete (marathon world record 2019; Chicago Marathon 2018-9, London Marathon 2019), born in Kenya

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Famous Deaths

1408 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman, dies at 66
1964 - R T Stanyforth, English cricket wicket-keeper (South Africa 1927-28), dies
1973 - Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (Violinist Notebook 1933), dies at 80
1983 - Fritz Köberle, Austrian-Brazilian physician (b. 1910)
1987 - Ivan Brkanović, Croatian composer (Triptych - Funeral Folk Rite), dies at 80
1992 - Andrew Schenck, American conductor, dies of melanoma at 51

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