February 22 Historical Events
The following events took place on February 22. The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- 1957Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột.
- 1958Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
- 1959Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
- 1972The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
- 1973Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon’s visit to the People’s Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
- 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.
- 1974Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
- 1979Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
- 1980Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3.
- 1983The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
- 1986Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
- 1994Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
- 1995The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
- 1997In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.
- 2002Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
- 2006At least six men stage Britain’s biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
- 2011New Zealand’s second deadliest earthquake strikes Christchurch, killing 185 people.
- 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.
- 2012A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.
- 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.
- 2015A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people.
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