February 22 Events |
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| February 22nd, 2006 (February 22 2006) | Event | At least six men stage Britain s biggest robbery ever, stealing ?53m (about $92.5 million or 78? million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent. | |
| February 22nd, 2002 (February 22 2002) | Event | Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush. | |
| February 22nd, 1997 (February 22 1997) | Event | In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned. | |
| February 22nd, 1994 (February 22 1994) | Event | Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union. | |
| February 22nd, 1986 (February 22 1986) | Event | Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines. | |
| February 22nd, 1980 (February 22 1980) | Event | Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3, in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history. | |
| February 22nd, 1979 (February 22 1979) | Event | Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom. | |
| February 22nd, 1974 (February 22 1974) | Event | Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) summit conference starts in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries are attending. Twenty-two heads of state and government participate. | |
| February 22nd, 1974 (February 22 1974) | Event | Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon. | |
| February 22nd, 1973 (February 22 1973) | Event | Cold War: Following United States President Richard Nixon s visit to the People s Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices. | |
| February 22nd, 1959 (February 22 1959) | Event | Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500. | |
| February 22nd, 1958 (February 22 1958) | Event | Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic. | |
| February 22nd, 1948 (February 22 1948) | Event | Communist coup in Czechoslovakia. | |
| February 22nd, 1944 (February 22 1944) | Event | American aircraft bombard the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer by mistake, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone. | |
| February 22nd, 1943 (February 22 1943) | Event | Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany. | |
| February 22nd, 1942 (February 22 1942) | Event | World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defenses collapses. | Douglas MacArthur Quotes |
| February 22nd, 1924 (February 22 1924) | Event | Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House. | Calvin Coolidge Quotes |
| February 22nd, 1915 (February 22 1915) | Event | World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare. | |
| February 22nd, 1904 (February 22 1904) | Event | The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908. | |
| February 22nd, 1889 (February 22 1889) | Event | President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states. | Grover Cleveland Quotes |
| February 22nd, 1882 (February 22 1882) | Event | The Serbian kingdom is refounded. | |
| February 22nd, 1879 (February 22 1879) | Event | In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores. | |
| February 22nd, 1862 (February 22 1862) | Event | Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861. | |
| February 22nd, 1856 (February 22 1856) | Event | The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. | |
| February 22nd, 1847 (February 22 1847) | Event | Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista5,000 American troops drive off 15,000 Mexicans. | |
| February 22nd, 1819 (February 22 1819) | Event | By the Adams-Onis Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars. | |
| February 22nd, 1797 (February 22 1797) | Event | Last Invasion of Britain: 1797 The Last Invasion of Britain by the French, begins near Fishguard, Wales. | |
| February 22nd, 1744 (February 22 1744) | Event | War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins. | |
| February 22nd, 1632 (February 22 1632) | Event | Galileo s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published. | |
| February 22nd, 1495 (February 22 1495) | Event | King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city s throne. | |
