SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2014

Today is Saturday, February 22, the 53rd day of 2014. There are 312 days left in the year.

1630 ― Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving

1774 ― English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright

1903 ― Due to drought the U.S. side of Niagara Falls runs short of water

1907 ― First cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London

1956 ― Elvis Presley’s first hit in Billboard’s top 10 “Heartbreak Hotel”

1971 ― Lieutenant General Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria

1973 ― U.S. and China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing and Washington, D.C.

1983 ― Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India

1989 ― U.K. physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a “deliberate fraud”

1997 ― Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Open