Daily Archives: February 22, 2014

‘Bubble boy’ David Vetter, 12, dies 30 years ago this hour (Feb 22 1984)


Video: 'Bodyshock - The Boy In The Bubble - David Vetter' (parts 1-6)

(Wednesday, February 22, 1984, 8:00 p.m. CST) — David Vetter, a 12-year-old Texas boy who’d spent most of his life in a plastic bubble because he had no immunity to disease, died today, 15 days after being removed from the bubble for a bone-marrow transplant.

American aircraft mistakenly bomb four Dutch towns 70 years ago today (Feb 22 1944)


Video: 'Nijmegen 1944, American bombs on the city'

(Tuesday, February 22, 1944; part of World War II) — American aircraft mistakenly bombed the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer today, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.

‘It Happened One Night’ premieres in New York 80 years ago today (Feb 22 1934)


Video: 'It Happened One Night'

(Thursday, February 22, 1934)It Happened One Night, a screwball comedy film about a pampered socialite who tries to get out from under her father’s thumb and falls in love with a roguish reporter, premiered today at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.

Directed by Frank Capra, the film starred Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert and Walter Connolly.