Todayis Friday, February 22, the 53rd day of 2002. There are 312 days left in the year.

On this date

<*In 1819, Spain ceded Florida to the United States.

In 1879, Frank Winfield Woolworth opened a five-cent store in Utica, N.Y.

In 1892, “Lady Windermere’s Fan,” by Oscar Wilde, was first performed, at London’s St. James’s Theatre.

In 1987, pop artist Andy Warhol died at a New York City hospital at age 58.

Thought for the Day

<*“The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.” — Marianne Moore, American poet (1887-1972).