Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 22
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This is a list of selected February 22 anniversaries that appears on 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 may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.February 22: Independence Day in Saint Lucia (1979); Feast of Cathedra Petri (Catholicism)
- 1819 – By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sold Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
- 1943 – Members of the White Rose Society were found guilty of treason and guillotined by the Nazi regime in Germany.
- 1980 – At the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, USA, the United States ice hockey team defeated the Soviet Union in an unlikely victory that became known as the Miracle on Ice.
- 1986 – The People Power Revolution, a series of nonviolent mass street demonstrations in the Philippines against the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos, began.
- 1997 – Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the birth of a cloned sheep named Dolly (pictured) seven months after the fact.
More events: February 21 – February 22 – February 23
