22nd February

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1797 – The Last Invasion of mainland Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.

1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.

1904 – The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.

1915 – World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.

1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.

1943 – World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.

1948 – Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.

1972 – The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.

1973 – Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.

1974 – Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.

1983 – The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.

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

2006 – At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

2011 – New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake strikes Christchurch, killing 185 people.

Births
1882 – Eric Gill, English sculptor (d. 1940)
1908 – John Mills, English actor (d. 2005) “Ryan’s Daughter”, Ice Cold In Alex”
1926 – Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988) “Carry On …..”
1927 – Guy Mitchell, American singer (d. 1999) “Sparrow In The Tree Top”
1928 – Bruce Forsyth, English television host
1930 – Marni Nixon, American soprano and actress – voiceover for Audrey Hepburn in “My Fair Lady”
1933 – Sheila Hancock, English actress and author
1949 – Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver
1950 – Julie Walters, English actress "Educating Rita", "Mamma Mia"
1974 – James Blunt, English singer-songwriter

Deaths
1976 – Angela Baddeley, English actress (b. 1904) Mrs Bridges in "Upstairs Downstairs"

1987 – Andy Warhol, American painter and photographer (b. 1928)

2002 – Chuck Jones, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1912) "Bugs Bunny", Daffy Duck"

2011 – Nicholas Courtney, English actor (b. 1929) Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in Dr Who

2012 – Frank Carson, Irish-English comedian and actor (b. 1926)

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[wendy]

I did enjoy Upstairs and Downstairs and I think her name was Mrs Bridges.