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Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940), also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, was an American man. He is the tallest person in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. Wadlow was born and raised in Alton, Illinois, a small city near St. Louis, Missouri. [1]
February 22 is the 53rd day of the ... Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims ... American man, the tallest person in ...
Christopher Seider (or Snider) (1758 – February 22, 1770) was a boy who is considered to be the first American killed in the American Revolution. [1] [2] [3] He was 11 years old when he was shot and killed by customs officer Ebenezer Richardson [4] in Boston on February 22, 1770.
He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861. 1876 - Johns Hopkins University is founded in Baltimore . 1879 - In Utica, New York , Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores.
The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2024. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
Presidents' Day, officially Washington's Birthday at the federal governmental level, is a holiday in the United States celebrated on the third Monday of February. It is often celebrated to honor all those who served as presidents of the United States and, since 1879, has been the federal holiday honoring Founding Father George Washington, who led the Continental Army to victory in the American ...
February 22 – Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII; March 1 – Charles E. Hughes; March 8 – King George VI; March 15 – Joseph E. Davies & his wife Marjorie Merriweather Post; March 22 – Clarence Little; March 29 – Clyde Beatty; April 5 – Harry B. Housser; April 12 – Virginia Woolf; April 19 – Bob Feller; April 26 – Fulgencio Batista
Carlton Michael Gary (September 24, 1950 – March 15, 2018) [1] was an American serial killer who murdered three elderly women in Columbus, Georgia, and one in Syracuse, New York, between 1975 and 1978, though he is suspected of at least four more killings.