Editing February 22 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
*[[1076]] &ndash; Having received a letter during the Lenten synod of 14–20 February demanding that he abdicate,<ref>{{cite book|last=Blumenthal|first=Uta-Renate|chapter=Gregory VII|title=Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia|editor-last=Jeep|editor-first=John M.|location=New York|publisher=Garland Publishing|date=2001|isbn=9781138062658|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p4uHav3mZLsC|page=310|access-date=2022-02-14|archive-date=2022-01-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109155448/https://books.google.com/books?id=p4uHav3mZLsC|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Pope Gregory VII]] excommunicates [[Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lott|first1=Elizabeth S.|last2=Pavlac|first2=Brian Alexander|title=The Holy Roman Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2019|isbn=9781440848551|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=arSYDwAAQBAJ|page=235|postscript=none|access-date=2022-02-14|archive-date=2021-12-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210075318/https://books.google.com/books?id=arSYDwAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}; {{cite book|last=Robinson|first=James Harvey|title=Readings in European History. Vol. I|location=Boston|publisher=Ginn & Company|date=1904|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SwcUFENZX68C|page=281|isbn=9781434470843|access-date=2022-02-14|archive-date=2022-02-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143316/https://books.google.com/books?id=SwcUFENZX68C|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1316]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Picotin]], between [[Ferdinand of Majorca]] and the forces of [[Matilda of Hainaut]], ends in victory for Ferdinand.<ref>{{cite book|author1=ed SETTON|author2=Kenneth Meyer Setton|title=A History of the Crusades: The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, edited by H. W. Hazard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J6v9jhUd-r8C&pg=PA112|year=1969|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-06670-3|pages=112|access-date=2019-09-27|archive-date=2020-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801123451/https://books.google.com/books?id=J6v9jhUd-r8C&pg=PA112|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1371]] &ndash; [[Robert II of Scotland|Robert II]] becomes King of [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]], beginning the [[House of Stuart|Stuart]] dynasty.<ref>{{cite book|author=Andrew Lang|title=A Short History of Scotland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-rfCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT46|date=20 November 2019|publisher=Good Press|pages=46|access-date=26 July 2020|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801124748/https://books.google.com/books?id=-rfCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT46|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1495]] &ndash; King [[Charles VIII of France]] enters [[Naples]] to claim the city's throne.<ref>{{cite book|author=Bard Thompson|title=Humanists and Reformers: A History of the Renaissance and Reformation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hrq9d567398C&pg=PA296|year=1996|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|isbn=978-0-8028-6348-5|pages=296|access-date=2020-07-26|archive-date=2020-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801115927/https://books.google.com/books?id=Hrq9d567398C&pg=PA296|url-status=live}}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1632]] &ndash; [[Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany]], the dedicatee, receives the first printed copy of [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]]'s ''[[Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gindikin|first=Semen Grigorʹevich|title=Tales of physicists and mathematicians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vhx--jfFN8IC&pg=PA62|access-date=22 February 2011|year=1988|publisher=[[Birkhäuser]]|isbn=978-0-8176-3317-2|page=62|archive-date=4 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140704035231/http://books.google.com/books?id=Vhx--jfFN8IC&pg=PA62|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1651]] &ndash; [[St. Peter's Flood]]: A storm surge floods the [[German Bight|Frisian coast]], drowning 15,000 people.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-15 |title=St. Peter's Flood – February 22, 1651 |url=https://www.calendarz.com/on-this-day/february/22/st-peters-flood |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=calendarz.com |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1744]] &ndash; [[War of the Austrian Succession]]: The [[Battle of Toulon (1744)|Battle of Toulon]] causes several [[Royal Navy]] captains to be [[court-martial]]ed, and the [[Articles of War]] to be amended.<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle= Mathews, Thomas |volume= 37 |last= Laughton |first= John Knox |author-link= John Knox Laughton |pages= 43-46 |year= |short=1}}</ref>
*[[1770]] &ndash; British customs officer Ebenezer Richardson fires blindly into a crowd during a protest in [[North End, Boston]], fatally wounding 11-year-old [[Christopher Seider]]; the first American fatality of the [[American Revolution]].<ref name="USA1stBastardCop">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/christopher-seider-the-first-casualty-in-the-american-revolutionary-cause/|title=Christopher Seider: The First Casualty in the American Revolutionary Cause|date=2015-07-31|publisher=New England Historical Society|language=en-US|access-date=2023-10-01}}</ref>
*[[1797]] &ndash; The [[last Invasion of Britain]] begins near [[Fishguard]], Wales.<ref>{{cite web |title=Llanelli and the Fishguard Invasion |url=https://www.llanellich.org.uk/files/356-llanelli-fishguard-invasion |website=llanellich.org.uk |publisher=Teftadaeth Cymuned Llanelli ~ Llanelli Community Heritage |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-date=22 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122090942/https://www.llanellich.org.uk/files/356-llanelli-fishguard-invasion |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1819]] &ndash; By the [[Adams–Onís Treaty]], Spain [[History of Florida|sells Florida]] to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Crutchfield |first1=James A. |last2=Moutlon |first2=Candy |last3=Bene |first3=Terry Del |title=The Settlement of America: An Encyclopedia of Westward Expansion from Jamestown to the Closing of the Frontier |date=26 March 2015 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-45461-8 |page=51 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lGusBwAAQBAJ |language=en |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-date=23 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143300/https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Settlement_of_America/lGusBwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1847]] &ndash; [[Mexican–American War]]: The [[Battle of Buena Vista]]: Five thousand American troops defeat 15,000 [[Mexico|Mexican]] troops.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bauer |first1=Karl Jack |title=The Mexican War, 1846-1848 |date=1 January 1992 |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-0-8032-6107-5 |page=210 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_1DqVTdwmVkC |access-date=5 February 2022 |language=en |archive-date=23 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143300/https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Mexican_War_1846_1848/_1DqVTdwmVkC?hl=en&gbpv=0 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1848]] &ndash; The [[French Revolution of 1848]], which would lead to the establishment of the [[French Second Republic]], begins.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Beecher |first1=Jonathan |title=Writers and Revolution: Intellectuals and the French Revolution of 1848 |date=April 2021 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-84253-2 |page=47 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TvQgEAAAQBAJ |access-date=5 February 2022 |language=en |archive-date=23 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143300/https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Writers_and_Revolution/TvQgEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1856]] &ndash; The United States [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] opens its first national convention in [[Pittsburgh]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ushistory.org/gop/origins.htm|title=The Origins of the Republican Party|access-date=2022-11-16|archive-date=2012-09-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930194002/http://www.ushistory.org/gop/origins.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[American 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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dodd |first1=William Edward |title=Jefferson Davis |date=1 January 1997 |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-0-8032-6609-4 |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r1X3lFbBSW4C |access-date=5 February 2022 |language=en |archive-date=23 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143301/https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/_/r1X3lFbBSW4C?hl=en&gbpv=0 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1872]] &ndash; The [[Prohibition Party]] holds its first national convention in [[Columbus, Ohio]], nominating [[James Black (prohibitionist)|James Black]] as its presidential nominee.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://tile.loc.gov/image-services/iiif/service:gdc:dcmsiabooks:br:ie:fh:is:to:ry:of:pr:00:bl:ac:briefhistoryofpr00blac:briefhistoryofpr00blac_0025/full/pct:100/0/default.jpg |title=Page Twenty Three of Brief history of prohibition and of the prohibition reform party |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200318021022/https://tile.loc.gov/image-services/iiif/service:gdc:dcmsiabooks:br:ie:fh:is:to:ry:of:pr:00:bl:ac:briefhistoryofpr00blac:briefhistoryofpr00blac_0025/full/pct:100/0/default.jpg |archive-date=March 18, 2020 |page=23}}</ref>
*[[1879]] &ndash; In [[Utica, New York]], [[Frank Woolworth]] opens the first of many of five-and-dime [[F. W. Woolworth Company|Woolworth]] stores.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Winkler |first1=John K. |title=Five and Ten: The Fabulous Life of F. W. Woolworth |date=31 July 2017 |publisher=Pickle Partners Publishing |isbn=978-1-78720-790-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GtwuDwAAQBAJ |access-date=5 February 2022 |language=en |archive-date=23 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143313/https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Five_and_Ten/GtwuDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1881]] &ndash; ''[[Cleopatra's Needle (New York)|Cleopatra's Needle]]'', a 3,500-year-old Ancient Egyptian obelisk is erected in [[Central Park]], New York.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/attractions/obelisk.html|title=Obelisk|website=The Official Website of Central Park NYC|access-date=August 26, 2019|date=January 29, 2019|archive-date=April 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424124927/http://www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/attractions/obelisk.html|url-status=live}}</ref> 
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[President of the United States|President]] [[Grover Cleveland]] [[Enabling Act of 1889|signs a bill]] admitting [[North Dakota]], [[South Dakota]], [[Montana]] and [[Washington (state)|Washington]] as [[U.S. state]]s.<ref>{{cite web |title=State History Enabling Act |url=https://leg.wa.gov/History/State/Pages/enabling.aspx |website=leg.wa.gov |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-date=5 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220205160707/https://leg.wa.gov/History/State/Pages/enabling.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Philippine Revolutionary Army|Filipino forces]] led by General [[Antonio Luna]] [[Second Battle of Caloocan|launch counterattacks for the first time]] against the American forces during the [[Philippine–American War]]. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Linn |first1=Brian McAllister |title=The Philippine War, 1899-1902 |date=2000 |publisher=University Press of Kansas |location=Lawrence |isbn=0-7006-1225-4 |page=59}}</ref>

===1901–present===
*[[1904]] &ndash; 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.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Dudeney |first1=John R. |last2=Walton |first2=David W.H. |date=October 2012 |title=From Scotia to 'Operation Tabarin': developing British policy for Antarctica |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0032247411000520/type/journal_article |journal=Polar Record |language=en |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=342–360 |doi=10.1017/S0032247411000520 |bibcode=2012PoRec..48..342D |s2cid=145613031 |issn=0032-2474}}</ref>
*[[1909]] &ndash; The sixteen [[battleship]]s of the [[Great White Fleet]], led by {{USS|Connecticut|BB-18|6}}, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Great White Fleet |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq42-1.htm |publisher=Department of the Navy – Naval History and Heritage Command |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20120204131704/http%3A//www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq42-1.htm |archive-date=4 February 2012 |date=20 December 2005 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[1921]] &ndash; After Russian forces under Baron [[Roman von Ungern-Sternberg]] drive the Chinese out, the [[Bogd Khan]] is reinstalled as the [[Khagan|emperor]] of [[Mongolia (1911–24)|Mongolia]].{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders General [[Douglas MacArthur's escape from the Philippines|Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines]] as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 16, 2009 |title=President Roosevelt to MacArthur: Get out of the Philippines |url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-roosevelt-to-macarthur-get-out-of-the-philippines |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=HISTORY |publisher=A&E Television Networks |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1943]] &ndash; World War II: Members of the [[White Rose]] resistance, [[Sophie Scholl]], [[Hans Scholl]], and [[Christoph Probst]] are executed in [[Nazi Germany]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Scholl |first1=Inge |title=The White Rose: Munich, 1942–1943 |date=June 1983 |publisher=Wesleyan University Press |isbn=978-0-8195-6086-5 |pages=9, 15, 138, 149 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LgSlZdGXhVUC |access-date=5 February 2022 |language=en |archive-date=23 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143301/https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_White_Rose/LgSlZdGXhVUC?hl=en&gbpv=0 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*1943   &ndash; ''[[Yankee Clipper (flying boat)|Yankee Clipper]]'' crashes while landing on the [[Tagus]] in Lisbon, killing 24.<ref name="CAB">{{cite report |url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19430222-0 |title=Report of the Civil Aeronautics Board |date=9 September 1943 |publisher=Civil Aeronautics Board |access-date=10 November 2024}}</ref>
*[[1944]] &ndash; World War II: American aircraft [[Bombing of Nijmegen|mistakenly bomb]] the Dutch towns of [[Nijmegen]], [[Arnhem]], [[Enschede]] and [[Deventer]], resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.oorlogsdodennijmegen.nl/gebeurtenis/42d66138-d771-4448-b125-01fa56486f97 |title=Bombardement 22 februari 1944 Nijmegen |work=Oorlogsdoden Nijmegen |access-date=20 August 2016 |language=nl |archive-date=21 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821040555/http://www.oorlogsdodennijmegen.nl/gebeurtenis/42d66138-d771-4448-b125-01fa56486f97 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1944   &ndash; World War II: The Soviet [[Red Army]] recaptures [[Krivoi Rog]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Krivoi-Rog |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/krivoi-rog |website=The Jewish Virtual Library |access-date=26 October 2022 |archive-date=26 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221026203533/https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/krivoi-rog |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1946]] &ndash; The "[[X Article|Long Telegram]]", proposing how the United States should deal with the Soviet Union, arrives from the US embassy in Moscow.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The World Transformed:1945 to the Present|last=Hunt|first=Michael|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2013|isbn=9780199371020|pages=44}}</ref>
*[[1957]] &ndash; [[Ngô Đình Diệm]] of [[South Vietnam]] survives a [[Viet Cong|communist]] shooting assassination attempt in [[Buôn Ma Thuột]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Moyar |first1=Mark |title=Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965 |date=28 August 2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-139-45921-1 |page=66 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=phJrZ87RwuAC |access-date=5 February 2022 |language=en |archive-date=23 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143301/https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Triumph_Forsaken/phJrZ87RwuAC?hl=en&gbpv=0 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1958]] &ndash; Following a plebiscite in both countries the previous day, [[Egypt]] and [[Syria]] join to form the [[United Arab Republic]].<ref name=feb23>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96296879/cairo-wild-as-nasser-takes-post/|title=Cairo Wild as Nasser Takes Post|newspaper=Fort Lauderdale News|date=February 23, 1958|access-date=February 24, 2022|archive-date=January 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230104130337/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96296879/cairo-wild-as-nasser-takes-post/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1959]] &ndash; [[Lee Petty]] wins [[1959 Daytona 500|the first]] [[Daytona 500]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Race Results |url=https://www.racing-reference.info/race-results/1959_Daytona_500/W/ |website=Racing-Reference.info |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-date=24 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124005918/https://www.racing-reference.info/race-results/1959_Daytona_500/W/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1972]] &ndash; The [[Official Irish Republican Army]] [[1972 Aldershot bombing|detonates]] a car bomb at [[Aldershot]] barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.<ref>{{cite news |title=1972: IRA bomb kills six at Aldershot barracks |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/22/newsid_2519000/2519029.stm |publisher=BBC News – On this day |date=22 February 1972 |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-date=7 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113337/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/22/newsid_2519000/2519029.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1973]] &ndash; [[Cold War]]: Following President [[Richard Nixon]]'s [[Nixon visit to China 1972|visit]] to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish [[:wikt:liaison|liaison]] offices.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-01-18 |title=The Opening of China » |url=https://www.nixonfoundation.org/exhibit/the-opening-of-china/ |access-date=2022-09-07 |language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[1974]] &ndash; The [[Organisation of Islamic Cooperation|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]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Second Islamic Summit Conference 1974 |url=http://formun.fccsocieties.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Islamic_Summit_1974_FORMUN_2013.pdf |publisher=Forman Christian College Model United Nations |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130626060300/http://formun.fccsocieties.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Islamic_Summit_1974_FORMUN_2013.pdf |archive-date=26 June 2013 |date=2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*  1974   &ndash; [[Samuel 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rvv.com/peacemaker/Samuel_Byck.htm|title=The Samuel Byck Association Attempt|date=January 9, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050109073412/http://www.rvv.com/peacemaker/Samuel_Byck.htm|archive-date=2005-01-09}}</ref>
*[[1979]] &ndash; [[Saint Lucia]] gains independence from the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web|title=Saint Lucia – Countries|url=https://history.state.gov/countries/saint-lucia|website=[[Office of the Historian]]|access-date=March 21, 2022|archive-date=March 22, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322021056/https://history.state.gov/countries/saint-lucia|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1980]] &ndash; [[Miracle on Ice]]: In [[Lake Placid, New York]], the United States hockey team defeats the [[Soviet Union]] hockey team 4–3.<ref>{{cite news |title=America surprise Soviets, 4-3 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nLssAAAAIBAJ&pg=6346%2C4551880 |access-date=5 February 2022 |work=Star-News |agency=Associated Press |date=23 February 1980 |archive-date=5 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220205203433/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nLssAAAAIBAJ&pg=6346,4551880 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1983]] &ndash; The notorious [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] flop ''[[Moose Murders]]'' opens and closes on the same night at the [[Eugene O'Neill Theatre]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Robertson |first1=Campbell |title=A Broadway Flop Again Raises Its Antlers |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/theater/21moos.html |access-date=7 February 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=21 April 2008 |archive-date=23 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211223212552/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/theater/21moos.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1986]] &ndash; Start of the [[People Power Revolution]] in the [[Philippines]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ackerman |first1=Peter |last2=DuVall |first2=Jack |title=A Force More Powerful: A Century of Non-Violent Conflict |date=5 October 2001 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-0-312-24050-9 |page=527 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-1TMCQAAQBAJ |access-date=7 February 2022 |language=en |archive-date=23 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143303/https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/A_Force_More_Powerful/-1TMCQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1994]] &ndash; [[Aldrich Ames]] and his wife are charged by the [[United States Department of Justice]] with spying for the Soviet Union.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bromwich |first=Michael R. |author-link=Michael R. Bromwich |date=April 1997 |title=A Review of the FBI's Performance in Uncovering the Espionage Activities of Aldrich Hazen Ames |url=https://oig.justice.gov/special/9704.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170514003744/https://oig.justice.gov/special/9704.htm |archive-date=May 14, 2017 |access-date=April 26, 2011}}</ref>
*[[1995]] &ndash; The [[Corona (satellite)|Corona]] [[reconnaissance satellite]] program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.<ref>[https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/WCPD-1995-02-27/pdf/WCPD-1995-02-27-Pg304.pdf Executive Order 12951—Release of Imagery Acquired by Space-Based National Intelligence Reconnaissance Systems]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115202814/https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/WCPD-1995-02-27/pdf/WCPD-1995-02-27-Pg304.pdf |date=2021-01-15 }}, retrieved 22 February 2022</ref> 
*[[1997]] &ndash; In [[Roslin, Midlothian]], British scientists announce that an adult sheep named [[Dolly the sheep|Dolly]] has been successfully [[cloning|cloned]].<ref>{{cite news |title=1997: Dolly the sheep is cloned |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/22/newsid_4245000/4245877.stm |publisher=BBC News-On this day |access-date=2022-02-07 |archive-date=2019-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191127065734/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/22/newsid_4245000/4245877.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2002]] &ndash; [[Angola]]n political and rebel leader [[Jonas Savimbi]] is killed in a military ambush.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jonas Savimbi |url=http://www.economist.com/node/1010682 |access-date=7 February 2022 |newspaper=The Economist |date=28 February 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809223508/http://www.economist.com/node/1010682 |archive-date=9 August 2014}}</ref>
*[[2005]] &ndash; The 6.4 {{M|w}} [[2005 Zarand earthquake|Zarand earthquake]] shakes the [[Kerman province]] of [[Iran]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of VIII (''Severe''), leaving 612 people dead and 1,411 injured.<ref>{{cite news |title=Hundreds killed in Iranian quake |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4286129.stm |access-date=7 February 2022 |publisher=BBC News |date=22 February 2005 |archive-date=23 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143306/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4286129.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[2006]] &ndash; At approximately 6:44&nbsp;a.m.  [[UTC+03:00|local Iraqi time]], [[2006 al-Askari mosque bombing|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 violence in Iraq|sectarian tensions in Iraq]] into a [[Iraqi Civil War (2006-2008)|full-scale civil war]].<ref>{{cite web|title='1,300 dead' in Iraq sectarian violence |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/28/iraq1|access-date=2022-01-01|website=The Guardian|archive-date=2022-06-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220627185217/https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/28/iraq1|url-status=live}}</ref>
*2006 &ndash; The [[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]].<ref name="Vito">{{cite book |last1=Vito |first1=Gennaro F. |last2=Maahs |first2=Jeffrey R. |last3=Holmes |first3=Ronald M. |title=Criminology: Theory, Research, and Policy |date=2006 |publisher=[[Jones & Bartlett Learning]] |location=Burlington, Massachusetts |isbn=978-0-7637-3001-7 |page=289 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2tehE36CziMC |language=en |access-date=20 March 2022 |archive-date=22 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922104224/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Criminology/2tehE36CziMC |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[2011]] &ndash; New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake, the [[2011 Christchurch earthquake]], kills 185 people.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dozens killed in New Zealand's 'darkest day' |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-02-22/dozens-killed-in-new-zealands-darkest-day/1953118 |access-date=7 February 2022 |publisher=ABC News|location=Australia |date=22 February 2011 |language=en-AU |archive-date=7 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220207114416/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-02-22/dozens-killed-in-new-zealands-darkest-day/1953118 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  2011   &ndash; [[2011 Bahraini uprising|Bahraini uprising]]: Tens of thousands of people [[March of loyalty to martyrs|march in protest]] against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bahrain unrest: Thousands join anti-government protest |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12535681 |access-date=7 February 2022 |publisher=BBC News |date=22 February 2011 |archive-date=7 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161207081029/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12535681 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2012]] &ndash; A [[2012 Buenos Aires rail disaster|train crash]] in [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.<ref>{{cite news |title=El tercer accidente ferroviario más grave en la historia del país |url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/anteriores-choques-de-trenes-nid1450641/ |access-date=7 February 2022 |work=La Nacion |date=23 February 2012 |language=es |archive-date=7 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220207114416/https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/anteriores-choques-de-trenes-nid1450641/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2014]] &ndash; President [[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.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Higgins |first1=Andrew |last2=Kramer |first2=Andrew E. |title=Archrival Is Freed as Ukraine Leader Flees |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/world/europe/ukraine.html |access-date=7 February 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=22 February 2014 |archive-date=23 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523091912/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/world/europe/ukraine.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2015]] &ndash; A ferry carrying 100 passengers [[Sinking of the ML Mostofa-3|capsizes]] in the [[Padma River]], killing 70 people.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ahmed |first1=Farid |title=68 dead in Bangladesh ferry accident |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/22/asia/bangladesh-ferry-accident/ |access-date=7 February 2022 |publisher=CNN|date=22 February 2015 |archive-date=7 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220207114416/https://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/22/asia/bangladesh-ferry-accident/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2018]] &ndash; A man [[2018 United States embassy attack in Podgorica|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.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Surk |first1=Barbara |title=Bomb Thrown at U.S. Embassy in Montenegro; Attacker Kills Himself |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/world/europe/montenegro-embassy-attacked.html |access-date=7 February 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=22 February 2018 |archive-date=7 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220207114359/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/world/europe/montenegro-embassy-attacked.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2022]] &ndash; [[Twosday]], the name given to Tuesday, February 22, 2022, at 2:22:22, occurs.<ref name="LoC">{{cite web | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/02/22/twosday-2-22-22-palindrome/6884226001/ | title=It's 'Twosday!' No matter where you are in the world, today's palindrome date is the same | website=[[USA Today]] }}</ref>