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Events on February 22

• 1635 In Paris, Cardinal Richelieu establishes the Académie française with the task of safeguarding the purity of the French language. The founding document, a royal edict, is dated January 29.
• 1828 Friedrich Wöhler synthesizes urea from ammonium cyanate for the first time. With this, he is the first to artificially produce an organic substance and disproves the widespread thesis that such substances can only be produced by living organisms under the influence of “vis vitalis”.
• 1857 In Munich, according to uncertain accounts, the first white sausages are served at the Zum ewigen Licht inn.
• 1926 The Ford Bank is founded in Berlin under the company name Ford Credit Company as the first German auto bank.
• 1943 Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst of the White Rose resistance group are sentenced to death by the People's Court under Roland Freisler and executed in Munich-Stadelheim Prison.
• 1960 A firedamp and coal dust explosion at the Karl Marx hard coal mine in Zwickau claims 123 lives. It is the worst mining disaster in the history of the GDR.
• 1980 The U.S. national ice hockey team pulls off the Miracle on Ice: In the final round of the Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, it sensationally defeats the Soviet national ice hockey team 4:3.
• 1987 With an Airbus A320, the first aircraft of the Airbus A320 family takes off.
• 1990 The Bavarian Administrative Court rules that equality must apply to women at the Oberammergau Passion Play regardless of their marital status and age.
• 1997 The research findings of British embryologist Ian Wilmut on the successful cloning of Dolly the sheep are published in the journal Nature.
• 2012 The PlayStation Vita video game console is released in Europe.
• 2022 The Russian Federation recognizes the independence of the “People’s Republics” of Donetsk and Lugansk by a decree of President Wladimir Putin. On the same day, the decree is unanimously ratified by the Federation Council.

Born on February 22

• 1857 Robert Baden-Powell, British cavalry general, founder of the Scout Movement
• 1857 Heinrich Hertz, German physicist, first to demonstrate electromagnetic waves
• 1900 Luis Buñuel, Spanish film director
• 1920 Maria Hellwig, German singer, presenter and entertainer
• 1932 Edward “Ted” Kennedy, American politician
• 1950 Julie Walters, British actress
• 1962 Steve Irwin, Australian conservationist and documentary filmmaker
• 1980 Jeanette Biedermann, German actress, pop singer, voice actress and songwriter
• 1980 Bosse, German guitarist and singer
• 1992 Haris Seferović, Swiss footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „22. Februar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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