On This Day — 22 February
2000s
2022
Twosday, the name given to Tuesday, February 22, 2022, at 2:22:22, occurs.
Twosday
2018
A 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.
2018 United States embassy attack in Podgorica
2015
A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people.
Sinking of ML Mostofa-3
2014
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.
Viktor Yanukovych
2012
A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.
2012 Buenos Aires rail disaster
2011
New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake, the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, kills 185 people.
2011 Christchurch earthquake
2011
Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests.
2011 Bahraini uprising
2006
At 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-scale civil war.
UTC+03:00
2006
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.
Securitas depot robbery
2005
The 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.
2005 Zarand earthquake
2002
Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
Angola
1900s
1997
In Roslin, Midlothian, British scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.
Roslin, Midlothian
1995
The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
CORONA (satellite)
1994
Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
Aldrich Ames
1986
Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
People Power Revolution
1983
The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
Broadway theatre
1980
Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3.
Miracle on Ice
1979
Saint Lucia gains independence from the United Kingdom.
Saint Lucia
1974
The 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.
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
1974
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.
Samuel Byck
1973
Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
Cold War
1972
The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
Official Irish Republican Army
1959
Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
Lee Petty
1958
Following a plebiscite in both countries the previous day, Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
Egypt
1957
Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột.
Ngo Dinh Diem
1946
The "Long Telegram", proposing how the United States should deal with the Soviet Union, arrives from the US embassy in Moscow.
X Article
1944
World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
Bombing of Nijmegen
1944
World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Krivoi Rog.
Red Army
1943
World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
White Rose
1943
Yankee Clipper crashes while landing on the Tagus in Lisbon, killing 24.
Yankee Clipper (flying boat)
1942
World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
World War II
1921
After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.[citation needed]
Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
1909
The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
Battleship
1904
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.
South Orkney Islands
1800s
1899
Filipino 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.
Philippine Revolutionary Army
1889
President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
President of the United States
1881
Cleopatra's Needle, a 3,500-year-old Ancient Egyptian obelisk is erected in Central Park, New York.
Cleopatra's Needle (New York City)
1879
In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
Utica, New York
1872
The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
Prohibition Party
1862
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.
American Civil War
1856
The United States Republican Party opens its first national convention in Pittsburgh.
Republican Party (United States)
1848
The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins.
French Revolution of 1848
1847
Mexican–American War: The Battle of Buena Vista: Five thousand American troops defeat 15,000 Mexican troops.
Mexican–American War
1819
By the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
Adams–Onís Treaty
Before 1800
1797
The last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
Battle of Fishguard
1770
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.
North End, Boston
1744
War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon causes several Royal Navy captains to be court-martialed, and the Articles of War to be amended.
War of the Austrian Succession
1651
St. Peter's Flood: A storm surge floods the Frisian coast, drowning 15,000 people.
St. Peter's flood
1632
Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, the dedicatee, receives the first printed copy of Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems.
Ferdinando II de' Medici
1495
King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
Charles VIII of France
1371
Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
Robert II of Scotland
1316
The Battle of Picotin, between Ferdinand of Majorca and the forces of Matilda of Hainaut, ends in victory for Ferdinand.
Battle of Picotin
1288
The Franciscan Girolamo Maschi is elected pope, choosing the name Nicholas IV.
Franciscans
1076
Having received a letter during the Lenten synod of 14–20 February demanding that he abdicate, Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
Pope Gregory VII
896
Pope Formosus crowns Arnulf of Carinthia as Emperor in Rome. Arnulf suffers a stroke soon after and retreats from Italy.
Pope Formosus