Today is Monday, February 22, the 53rd day of 2010. There are 312 days left in the year.
57 B.C. _ Origin of Vikrama Samvat Era (India)
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
1956 _ Elvis Presley's first hit in Billboard's top 10 ``Heartbreak Hotel"
1973 _ U.S. and& China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing and Washington, D.C.
1973 _ Israeli fighter planes shoot down a civilian Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 killing 108
1989 _ U.K. physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a ``deliberate fraud"
1998 _ ``King & I" closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 781 performances
1998 _ 18th Winter Olympics games close at Nagano Japan