(A friend send this to me)

Events and births on the 22nd February

Events

1632: Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.

1848 : The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins.

1943: Members of the White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.

1997: In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.

Births

1403: Charles VII of France

1732: George Washington, First President of the United States

1788: Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher

1892: Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet