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This day in history: 22 February

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343 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 22 February.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2022: Twosday, the name given to Tuesday, February 22, 2022, at 2:22:22, occurs.

Holidays and observances

Birthday of Scouting and Guiding founder Robert Baden-Powell and Olave Baden-Powell, and its related observance: Founder's Day or "B.-P. day" (World Organization of the Scout Movement)

Birthday of Scouting and Guiding founder Robert Baden-Powell and Olave Baden-Powell, and its related observance: World Thinking Day (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts)

Christian feast day: Baradates

Christian feast day: Blessed Émilie d'Oultremont

Christian feast day: Eric Liddell (Episcopal Church (USA))

Christian feast day: Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter (Roman Catholic Church)

Christian feast day: February 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Margaret of Cortona

Christian feast day: Papias of Hierapolis

Crime Victims Day (Europe)

Founding Day (Saudi Arabia)

Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom in 1979.

Events

2022Twosday, the name given to Tuesday, February 22, 2022, at 2:22:22, occurs.

2018A man throws a grenade at the U.S. embassy in Podgorica, Montenegro. He dies at the scene from a second explosion, with no one else hurt.

2015A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people.

2014President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328–0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion.

2012A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.

2011Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests.

2011New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake, the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, kills 185 people.

2006At approximately 6:44 a.m. local Iraqi time, explosions occurred at the al-Askari Shrine in Samarra, Iraq. The attack on the shrine, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, caused the escalation of sectarian tensions in Iraq into a full-sc

2006The Securitas depot robbery was the UK's largest heist. Almost £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) was stolen from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

2005The 6.4 Mw Zarand earthquake shakes the Kerman province of Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 612 people dead and 1,411 injured.

2002Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.

1997In Roslin, Midlothian, British scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.

1995The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.

1994Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.

1986Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.

1983The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.

1980Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3.

1979Saint Lucia gains independence from the United Kingdom.

1974Samuel Byck attempts to hijack an aircraft at Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to assassinate Richard Nixon, but commits suicide after being wounded by police.

1974The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.

1973Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.

1972The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.

1959Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.

1958Following a plebiscite in both countries the previous day, Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.

1957Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột.

1946The "Long Telegram", proposing how the United States should deal with the Soviet Union, arrives from the US embassy in Moscow.

1944World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.

1944World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Krivoi Rog.

1943World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.

1943Yankee Clipper crashes while landing on the Tagus in Lisbon, killing 24.

1942World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.

1921After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.[citation needed]

1909The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.

1904The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.

1899Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.

1889President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.

1881Cleopatra's Needle, a 3,500-year-old Ancient Egyptian obelisk is erected in Central Park, New York.

1879In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.

1872The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.

1862American Civil War: 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.

Born on this day

1999Harry Brook, English cricketer

1997Ilya Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player

1997Jerome Robinson, American basketball player

1996Kia Nurse, Canadian basketball player

1995Devonte' Graham, American basketball player

1994Elfrid Payton, American basketball player

1994Nam Joo-hyuk, South Korean model and actor

1992Dixon Machado, Venezuelan baseball player

1991Khalil Mack, American football player

1989Franco Vázquez, Argentine footballer

1988Jonathan Borlée, Belgian sprinter

1987Han Hyo-joo, South Korean actress and model

1987Sergio Romero, Argentine footballer

1986Rajon Rondo, American basketball player

1985Georgios Printezis, Greek basketball player

1985Hamer Bouazza, Algerian footballer

1985Zach Roerig, American actor

1984Branislav Ivanović, Serbian footballer

1984Tommy Bowe, Irish rugby player

1983Brian Duensing, American baseball player

1983Clint McKay, Australian cricketer

1983Iliza Shlesinger, American stand-up comedian, actress and television host

1983Shaun Tait, Australian cricketer

1980Jeanette Biedermann, German singer-songwriter and actress

1979Brett Emerton, Australian footballer

1979Lee Na-young, South Korean actress

1977Hakan Yakin, Swiss footballer

1975Drew Barrymore, American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter

1974James Blunt, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1973Juninho Paulista, Brazilian footballer

1973Philippe Gaumont, French cyclist (died 2013)

1973Scott Phillips, American musician and songwriter

1972Ben Sasse, American politician and college administrator

1972Claudia Pechstein, German speed skater

1972Haim Revivo, Israeli footballer

1972Michael Chang, American tennis player and coach

1971Lea Salonga, Filipino actress and singer

1969Brian Laudrup, Danish footballer and sportscaster

1969Clinton Kelly, American TV personality and author

1969Marc Wilmots, Belgian footballer and manager

Died on this day

2026Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes (born 1966)

2024John Lowe, English musician, pianist for The Quarrymen (born 1942)

2021Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet, painter (born 1919)

2019Brody Stevens, American comedian and actor (born 1970)

2019Morgan Woodward, American actor (born 1925)

2015Chris Rainbow, Scottish singer-songwriter and producer (born 1946)

2014Charlotte Dawson, New Zealand–Australian television host (born 1966)

2014Leo Vroman, Dutch-American hematologist, poet, and illustrator (born 1915)

2014Trebor Jay Tichenor, American pianist and composer (born 1940)

2013Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Dutch speed skater (born 1938)

2013Jean-Louis Michon, French-Swiss scholar and translator (born 1924)

2013Wolfgang Sawallisch, German pianist and conductor (born 1923)

2012Frank Carson, Irish-English comedian and actor (born 1926)

2012Marie Colvin, American journalist (born 1956)

2012Rémi Ochlik, French photographer and journalist (born 1983)

2012Sukhbir, Indian author and poet (born 1925)

2007Dennis Johnson, American basketball player and coach (born 1954)

2007George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, English politician, Leader of the House of Lords (born 1918)

2006S. Rajaratnam, Singaporean politician, 1st Senior Minister of Singapore (born 1915)

2005Lee Eun-ju, South Korean actress and singer (born 1980)

2005Simone Simon, French actress (born 1910)

2004Andy Seminick, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1920)

2002Chuck Jones, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (born 1912)

2002Jonas Savimbi, Angolan general, founded UNITA (born 1934)

1999Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (born 1964)

1999William Bronk, American poet and academic (born 1918)

1998Abraham A. Ribicoff, American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (born 1910)

1997Joseph Aiuppa, American gangster (born 1907)

1995Ed Flanders, American actor (born 1934)

1994Papa John Creach, American violinist (born 1917)

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