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History Events on February 22
World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
#White_Rose
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
At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
#Securitas_depot_robbery
A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.
#2012_Buenos_Aires_rail_disaster
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.
#Podgorica
The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
#Prohibition_Party
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
The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
#Battleship
King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
#Charles_VIII_of_France
Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista: Five thousand American troops defeat 15,000 Mexican troops.
#Mexican-American_War
The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins.
#French_Revolution_of_1848
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
The "Long Telegram", proposing how the United States should deal with the Soviet Union, arrives from the US embassy in Moscow.
#X_Article
New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake strikes Christchurch, killing 185 people.
#New_Zealand
Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3.
#Miracle_on_Ice
The Battle of Picotin, between Ferdinand of Majorca and the forces of Matilda of Hainaut, ends in victory for Ferdinand.
#Battle_of_Picotin
In Roslin, Midlothian, British scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.
#Roslin,_Midlothian
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio address from the White House.
#Calvin_Coolidge
Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
#Aldrich_Ames
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
President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
#President_of_the_United_States
Empress Wu Zetian abdicates the throne, restoring the Tang dynasty.
#Wu_Zetian
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
Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
#Egypt
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
The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
#Corona_(satellite)
World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Krivoi Rog.
#Red_Army
The United States Republican Party opens its first national convention in Pittsburgh.
#Republican_Party_(United_States)
Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
#Robert_II_of_Scotland
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.
#Jefferson_Davis
In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
#Utica,_New_York
After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.
#Roman_von_Ungern-Sternberg
World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
#World_War_I
Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
#People_Power_Revolution
President of Bangladesh, H M Ershad upgraded South Sylhet's sub-division status to a district and renamed it back to Moulvibazar.
#President_of_Bangladesh
Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
#Angola
World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
#World_War_II
The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
#Broadway_theatre
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,_Grand_Duke_of_Tuscany
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
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
Greek War of Independence: Alexander Ypsilantis crosses the Prut river at Sculeni into the Danubian Principalities.
#Greek_War_of_Independence
By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
#Adams-Onís_Treaty
