Today is Wednesday, February 22, the 53rd day of 2012. There are 313 days left in the year.
57 B.C. ― Origin of Vikrama Samvat Era (India)
1630 ― Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving
1888 ― John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers, N.Y.)
1900 ― Hawaii became a U.S. territory
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"
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"