Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 22
This is a list of selected February 22 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Empress Wu Zetian -
Johns Hopkins -
Johns Hopkins Hospital -
Daytona International Speedway -
Robert II of Scotland -
The battleship Connecticut running trials; the photographer's boat is moments away from being swamped by the bow wave emanating from the speeding battleship -
Former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych -
Protesters in Bahrain -
Shukri al-Quwatli
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| ; Independence Day in Saint Lucia (1979) | tagged for expansion |
| 705 – Empress Wu Zetian, the only woman to rule China in her own right, abdicated the throne, restoring the Tang Dynasty. | unreferenced section |
| 1632 – Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, in which he advocated Copernican heliocentrism, was delivered to his patron, Grand Duke Ferdinando. | unreferenced section |
| 1943 – Members of the White Rose, a non-violent resistance movement in Nazi Germany that became known for a leaflet campaign that called for active opposition to Adolf Hitler's regime, were found guilty of treason and guillotined. | refimprove section |
| 1959 – Lee Petty won the first Daytona 500 NASCAR auto race at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. | unreferenced section |
| 1995 – The photos taken by the Corona spy satellite program were declassified under an executive order signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton. | refimprove section |
| 2014 – After months of Euromaidan-protests Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was impeached by the Verkhovna Rada. | multiple issues |
Eligible
- 1316 – The forces of the infante Ferdinand of Majorca fought against those loyal to Princess Matilda of Hainaut in the Battle of Picotin on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece.
- 1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: British ships began attacking the Spanish rear of a Franco-Spanish combined fleet in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast near Toulon, France.
- 1819 – Under the terms of the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sold Florida and other North American territory to the United States for about US$5 million.
- 1876 – The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, named after philanthropist Johns Hopkins, opened.
- 1899 – Philippine–American War: Filipino forces launched their first counterattack in a failed attempt aimed at recapturing Manila from the Americans.
- 1909 – The sixteen United States Navy battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by Connecticut, completed a circumnavigation of the globe.
- 1958 – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Syrian President Shukri al-Quwatli signed a union pact to form the United Arab Republic.
- 1959 – The President of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem survived a Viet Cong assassination attempt by a gunman in Buôn Ma Thuột.
- 2002 – Jonas Savimbi, leader of the Angolan anti-Communist rebel and political party UNITA, was killed in a battle with Angolan government troops.
- 2006 – At least six men staged Britain's largest cash robbery ever at a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
- 2011 – Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people marched in protest in Manama against the deaths of seven people killed by police and army forces during previous protests.
- 2012 – A train failed to apply its brakes and crashed through a buffer stop at Once Station in Buenos Aires, resulting in 51 deaths and more than 700 injuries.
Notes
- NASCAR appears on February 21, so Daytona 500 should not appear in the same year
- Day of Rage (Bahrain) appears on February 16 and Bahrain Bloody Thursday appears on February 17, so March of loyalty to martyrs should not appear in the same year
- consider birthday of George Washington (b. 1732)
- 1371 – Robert II became King of Scots as the first monarch of the House of Stuart.
- 1876 – Swedish woman Karolina Olsson went to sleep and purportedly fell into a state of hibernation for the next 32 years.
- 1921 – After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drove the Chinese out of Mongolia, the Bogd Khan was reinstalled as emperor.
- 1980 – At the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United States ice hockey team defeated the Soviet Union in an unlikely victory that became known as the Miracle on Ice.
- 1983 – The play Moose Murders opened and closed on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, becoming the standard of "awfulness" against which all Broadway failures are judged.
- 1997 – Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the birth of Dolly (pictured), the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell.
- 2011 – A 6.5 ML earthquake struck Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 185 people and causing around NZ$40 billion damage.
Frédéric Chopin (b. 1810) · Felix Frankfurter (d. 1965)