22 febbraio

One thing only fixes itself definitely in my mind. The proper, as well as the wiser, course for us is to proceed exactly as though this had not happened. — Scott Campbell’s letter reached him at Safety Camp. The same entry admits that Amundsen was 60 miles nearer the Pole and could start earlier:…

Twelve men, eight ponies and two dog teams to lay food for the next summer along the road south. The ponies sank in soft snow and weakened in the cold; several died, three of them when the sea ice broke up under their camp on the way home.

Russia’s biggest factory locked out its workers after a strike over pay in one workshop. Some 30,000 men were on the street the day before the revolution began.

The tsar left Tsarskoye Selo for army headquarters at Mogilev, 750 kilometres from the capital, after his interior minister assured him that Petrograd was calm. He was there, out of touch, when the city rose.

Married more than sixty years, she died with her head in his lap. Their son Devdas had brought penicillin, and Gandhi opposed injecting her when she was past saving, a decision debated since.

A team of American college players beat the Soviet Union, winners of four straight Olympic titles, 4–3, seven weeks after the invasion of Afghanistan. It was not the final: the Americans still had to beat Finland two days later for the gold.

DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince won the new Best Rap Performance award for “Parents Just Don’t Understand”, but the Recording Academy left the category off the broadcast. The winners and most of the nominees stayed away in protest.

NTT DoCoMo’s service brought email, news, banking and train times to Japanese handsets years before the West. Its 176 emoji, twelve pixels square and drawn by Shigetaka Kurita, are now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

It closed at 39,098.68, 34 years after the bubble’s top.

The most spread-out Winter Games yet, shared between two host cities and venues across northern Italy. It opened at San Siro in Milan, seventy years after Cortina first held the Games in 1956.