On Feb. 22, 1630, residents of the Massachusetts Bay Colony tasted their first ”popped corn” as Indians shared their first Thanksgiving dinner.
In 1732 George Washington was born at his parents` plantation in Westmoreland County, Va.
In 1810 composer Frederic Chopin was born near Warsaw, Poland.
In 1879 F.W. Woolworth opened the first ”five-cent store” in Utica, N.Y.
In 1892 poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Me.
In 1972 President Richard Nixon met with Chinese Premier Chou En-lai in Beijing.
In 1980 the U.S. Olympic hockey team upset the Soviets 4-3 at Lake Placid, N.Y.
In 1983 Harold Washington won Chicago`s Democratic mayoral primary, over Mayor Jane Byrne and Cook County State`s Atty. Richard M. Daley on his way to becoming the city`s first black mayor.
