Today is Friday, February 22, the 53rd day of 2013. 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
1854 ― First meeting of the Republican Party, Michigan
1900 ― Hawaii became a U.S. territory
1907 ― First cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London
1956 ― Elvis Presley’s first hit in Billboard’s top 10 “Heartbreak Hotel”
1973 ― Israeli fighter planes shoot down a civilian Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727, killing 108
1973 ― U.S. and China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing and Washington, D.C.
1989 ― U.K. physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a “deliberate fraud”