Page 5: Historical Events In March - 09
Sunday, 22 February 2026
1918 Marguerite Chapman, Chatham NY, actress (Spy Smasher, Flight to Mars). 

1918 [Benjamin] Franc[lin] Wedekind, German writer/press sec, dies at 53. 

1920 Carl Betz, Pitts, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show). 

1922 Eugene O'Neill's "Hairy Ape," premieres in NYC. 

1922 Herbert P Douglas Jr, Pitts, long jumper (Olympic-bronze-1948) 

1923 Amsterdam taxi strike ended 

1923 James Buckley, (Sen-R-NY). 

1924 Italy annexes Fiume. 

1924 South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka) 

1924 Konstantin Iliev, composer. 

1925 Pink's War, the inaugural RAF operation conducted independently of the Army or Navy, begins. 

1926 Bertha Landes elected inaugural woman mayor of Seattle. 

1926 Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle 

1926 Celso Garrido Lecca, composer 

1927 Hans Ludwig Schilling, composer. 

1928 inaugural telephone call between Vancouver British Columbia, and London, England 

1929 Marcel Pagnol's "Marius," premieres in Paris. 

1929 Hugh Desmond Hoyte, president (Guyana, 1985-92). 

1930 Harrie J B Aarts, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA) 

1931 Taina Elg, Helsinki Finland, actress (Hercules in NY, Les Girls). 

1931 Ida B Wells-Barnett, famous black, dies in Chicago at 78. 

1932 Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria. 

1932 Heere Heeresma, Dutch writer (Han de Wit goes in development aid) 

1932 Eamon De Valera is recorded as becoming President of Ireland. 

1933 Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov and Vassili arrested in Berlin. 

1933 Congress is called into special session by FDR, and began its "100 days" 

1933 Philip Roth, American novelist is born. 

1933 Lloyd Price, Kenner La, singer (Just Because) 

1934 Joyce Van Patten, Queens NY, actress (Good Guys, Don Rickles Show) 

1935 Adolf Hitler announces the creation of a new air force. 

1935 Sister Bernard Ncube, South African nun. 

1936 Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player. 

1937 In Western Ohio a 5.4 earthquake, the largest historical earthquake in Ohio occurred. 

1938 Sydney Baynes, composer, dies at 59 

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