^B{^#!16!22 February^N! Feast day of St Baradates, St Margaret of Cortona, and Saints Thalassius and Limnaeus.
^B{1797^B} Over 1,000 French troops landed at Fishguard, in South Wales, but were quickly taken prisoner. ^B{1819^B} Spain ceded Florida to the US. ^B{1879^B} US storekeeper F W Woolworth opened his first 'five-and-ten-cent' store in Utica, New York. ^B{1886^B} ^I{The Times^I} newspaper published a classified personal column, the first newspaper to do so. ^B{1940^B} Five-year-old Tenzin Gyatso was enthroned as the 14th Dalai Lama in Lhasa, Tibet. ^B{1946^B} Dr Selman Abraham Waksman announced that he had discovered streptomycin, an antibiotic.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}George Washington, first president of the US, ^B{1732^B}; Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, ^B{1788^B}; Robert Baden-Powell, English soldier and founder of the Boy Scout movement, ^B{1857^B}; Eric Gill, English sculptor and typographer, ^B{1872^B}; Luis Bu±uel, Spanish film director, ^B{1900^B}; John Mills, English actor, ^B{1908^B}; Kenneth Williams, English comedy actor, ^B{1926^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Amerigo Vespucci, Italian navigator after whom America is named, ^B{1512^B}; Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter, ^B{1875^B}; Charles Lyell, English geologist, ^B{1875^B}; Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer, ^B{1942^B}; Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist, ^B{1973^B}; Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter, ^B{1980^B}.
