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On this day - February 22
896 — Pope Formosus crowns Arnulf of Carinthia as Emperor in Rome. ...
1076 — Having received a letter during the Lenten synod of 14–20 ...
1288 — The Franciscan Girolamo Maschi is elected pope, choosing the ...
1316 — The Battle of Picotin, between Ferdinand of Majorca and the ...
1371 — Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart ...
1495 — King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the ...
1632 — Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, the ...
1651 — St. Peter's Flood: A storm surge floods the Frisian ...
1744 — War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon causes ...
1770 — British customs officer Ebenezer Richardson fires blindly into ...
1797 — The last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
1819 — By the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United ...
1847 — Mexican–American War: The Battle of Buena Vista: Five thousand ...
1848 — The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the ...
1856 — The United States Republican Party opens its first national ...
1862 — American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated ...
1872 — The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in ...
1879 — In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of ...
1881 — Cleopatra's Needle, a 3,500-year-old Ancient Egyptian ...
1889 — President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North ...
1899 — Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch ...
1904 — The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South ...
1909 — The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS ...
1921 — After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg ...
1942 — World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General ...
1943 — Yankee Clipper crashes while landing on the Tagus in Lisbon, ...
1943 — World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie ...
1944 — World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Krivoi Rog.
1944 — World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch ...
1946 — The "Long Telegram", proposing how the United States ...
1957 — Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting ...
1958 — Following a plebiscite in both countries the previous day, ...
1959 — Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
1972 — The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at ...
1973 — Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to ...
1974 — Samuel Byck attempts to hijack an aircraft at ...
1974 — The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in ...
1979 — Saint Lucia gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1980 — Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States ...
1983 — The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on ...
1986 — Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1994 — Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States ...
1995 — The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from ...
1997 — In Roslin, Midlothian, British scientists announce that an ...
2002 — Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in ...
2005 — The 6.4 Mw Zarand earthquake shakes the Kerman province of ...
2006 — The Securitas depot robbery was the UK's largest heist. ...
2006 — At approximately 6:44 a.m. local Iraqi time, explosions ...
2011 — Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in ...
2011 — New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake, the 2011 ...
2012 — A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and ...
2014 — President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the ...
2015 — A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, ...
2018 — A man throws a grenade at the U.S. embassy in Podgorica, ...
2022 — Twosday, the name given to Tuesday, February 22, 2022, at ...