From Historynet: Today in History February 22

1349          Jews are expelled from Zurich, Switzerland.

1613          Mikhail Romanov  is elected czar of Russia.

1797          The last invasion of Britain takes place when some 1,400 Frenchmen land at Fishguard in Wales.

1819          Spain signs a treaty with the United States ceding eastern Florida.

1825          Russia and Britain establish the Alaska/Canada boundary.

1862          Jefferson Davis  is inaugurated president of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va. for the second time.

1864          Nathan Bedford Forrest's  brother, 

Jeffrey , is killed at Okolona, Mississippi.

1865          Federal troops capture Wilmington, N.C.

1879          Frank Winfield Woolworth's  'nothing over five cents' shop opens at Utica, New York. It is the first chain store.

1902          A fistfight breaks out in the Senate. 

Senator Benjamin Tillman  suffers a bloody nose for accusing Senator John McLaurin  of bias on the Philippine tariff issue.

1909          The Great White Fleet returns to Norfolk, Virginia, from an around-the-world show of naval power.

1911          Canadian Parliament votes to preserve the union with the British Empire.

1920          The American Relief Administration appeals to the public to pressure Congress to aid starving European cities.

1924          Columbia University declares radio education a success.

1926          Pope Pius  rejects Mussolini's offer of aid to the Vatican.

1932          Adolf Hitler  is the Nazi Party candidate for the presidential elections in Germany.

1935          All plane flights over the White House are barred because they are disturbing President Roosevelt's  sleep.

1942          President Franklin Roosevelt  orders 

Gen. Douglas MacArthur  to leave the Philippines.

1951          The Atomic Energy Commission discloses information about the first atom-powered airplane.

1952          French forces evacuate Hoa Binh in Indochina.

1954          U.S. is to install 60 Thor nuclear missiles in Britain.

1962          A Soviet bid for new Geneva arms talks is turned down by the U.S.

1963          Moscow warns the U.S. that an attack on Cuba would mean war.

1967          Operation Junction City becomes the largest U.S. operation in Vietnam.

1984          Britain and the U.S. send warships to the Persian Gulf following an Iranian offensive against Iraq.