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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The battleship Connecticut running trials; the photographer's boat is moments away from being swamped by the bow wave emanating from the speeding battleship
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| ; Independence Day in Saint Lucia (1979) | tagged for expansion |
| 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. | refimprove |
| 1959 – The President of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem survived a communist assassination attempt by a gunman in Buôn Ma Thuột. | neutrality issues |
Eligible
- 1371 – Robert II became King of Scots as the first monarch of the House of Stewart.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1995 – The photos taken by the Corona spy satellite program were declassified under an executive order signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
- 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 biggest cash robbery ever at a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
- 2011 – New Zealand suffered one of its worst peacetime disasters when a 6.5 ML earthquake struck Christchurch.
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
February 22: Feast of Cathedra Petri (Catholicism)
- 705 – Empress Wu Zetian, the only woman to rule China in her own right, abdicated the throne, restoring the Tang Dynasty.
- 1632 – Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, in which he advocated Copernican heliocentrism, was delivered to his patron, Grand Duke Ferdinando.
- 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.
- 1997 – Scientists at The Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the birth of a cloned sheep named Dolly, the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell, seven months after the fact.
- 2011 – Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people marched in protest (pictured) in Manama against the deaths of seven people killed by police and army forces during previous protests.