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
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
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 Brkanovi?, Croatian composer (Triptych – Funeral Folk Rite), dies at 80
1992 – Andrew Schenck, American conductor, dies of melanoma at 51