On February 22nd in History
Part IV
Part IV
On February 22nd in 1972 - President Nixon met with Mao Tse-tung in Peking and Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing.
On February 22nd in 1973 - The U.S. and Communist China agreed to establish liaison offices.
On February 22nd in 1974 - Samuel Joseph Byck, an unemployed former tire salesman, attempted to hijack a plane flying out of Baltimore-Washington International Airport. He intended to crash into the White House in hopes of killing US President Richard M. Nixon. Byck killed pilot Fred Jones and a aviation officer George Neal Ramsburg before he was shot and wounded by gunfire through the door of a Delta DC-9 airplane. Byck then shot himself in the head.
On February 22nd in 1978 - The US Dept. of Defense launched the 1st of a constellation of satellites that later made the backbone of the Global Positioning System (GPS).
On February 22nd in 1984 - Iran’s offensive Operation Kheibar captured the Iraqi Majnoon Islands in the Haur al-Hawizeh marshes. Britain and the US sent warships to the Persian Gulf following an Iranian offensive against Iraq.
On February 22nd in 1984 - The U.S. Census Bureau statistics showed that the state of Alaska was the fastest growing state of the decade with an increase in population of 19.2 percent.
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