Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 22

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  Empress Wu Zetian
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  Johns Hopkins
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  Johns Hopkins Hospital
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  Ngo Dinh Diem
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  Dolly
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  Robert II of Scotland
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  The battleship Connecticut running trials
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  Former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych
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  Protesters in Bahrain
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  Shukri al-Quwatli
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  USS Connecticut
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  Oxford Terrace Baptist Church destroyed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake
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  Fitzgerald Avenue destroyed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake
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  Cherry-throated tanager

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Feast of Cathedra Petri (Catholicism)	refimprove section
Independence Day in Saint Lucia (1979)	refimprove section
World Thinking Day	refimprove
705 – Empress Wu Zetian, the only woman to rule China in her own right, abdicated the throne, restoring the Tang Dynasty.	unreferenced section
1632 – Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, in which he advocated Copernican heliocentrism, was delivered to his patron, Grand Duke Ferdinando.	unreferenced section
1819 – Under the terms of the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sold Florida and other North American territory to the United States for about Template:Nowrap.	needs more footnotes
1876 – The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, named after philanthropist Johns Hopkins, opened.	needs more footnotes
1876 – A Swedish woman named Karolina Olsson went to sleep and purportedly fell into a state of hibernation that lasted for the next 32 years.	just speculation, noted at [1]
1899 – Philippine–American War: Filipino forces launched their first counterattack in a failed attempt to recapture Manila from the Americans.	unreliable sourcing
1921 – The Bogd Khan was reinstalled as emperor after White Russian forces under Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (pictured) drove the Chinese out of Mongolia.	refimprove section
1943 – Members of the White Rose, a non-violent resistance movement in Nazi Germany that became known for a leaflet campaign that called for active opposition to Adolf Hitler's regime, were found guilty of treason and guillotined.	refimprove section
1944 – [[World War II|World Template:Nowrap]]: U.S. forces carried out a bombing raid on the Nazi-occupied Dutch city of Nijmegen, killing hundreds of civilians by accident.	Yellow "tone" banner
1957 – The President of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem survived a Viet Cong assassination attempt by a gunman in Buôn Ma Thuột.	6 {cn}
1958 – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Syrian President Shukri al-Quwatli signed a union pact to form the United Arab Republic.	missing info
1995 – The photos taken by the Corona spy satellite program were declassified under an executive order signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.	refimprove section
2002 – Jonas Savimbi, leader of the Angolan anti-Communist rebel and political party UNITA, was killed in a battle with Angolan government troops.	refimprove section
2014 – After months of Euromaidan-protests Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was impeached by the Verkhovna Rada.	multiple issues

Eligible

• 1316 – The Catalan forces of Ferdinand of Majorca defeated troops loyal to Princess Matilda of Hainaut at the Battle of Picotin on the Peloponnese peninsula in modern-day Greece.
• 1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: British ships began attacking the rear of a combined Franco-Spanish fleet in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Toulon, France.
• 1909 – The sixteen United States Navy battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by Template:USS (pictured), completed a circumnavigation of the globe.
• 1980 – At the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United States ice hockey team defeated the Soviet team in an unlikely victory that became known as the Miracle on Ice.
• 1983 – The play Moose Murders opened and closed on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, becoming the standard of "awfulness" against which all Broadway failures are judged.
• 1997 – Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the existence of Dolly, a female sheep who was the first mammal to have successfully been cloned from an adult cell.
• 1998 – The cherry-throated tanager, a critically endangered bird which had not been definitively sighted in over a century, was rediscovered in Conceição do Castelo, Brazil.
• 2006 – Seven men staged the largest cash robbery in Britain at a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom.
• 2011 – An earthquake registering 6.3 M_L struck Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 185 people and causing around NZ$40 billion in damage.
• 2011 – Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people marched in protest in Manama against the deaths of seven people killed by police and army forces during previous protests.
• 2012 – A train failed to apply its brakes and crashed through a buffer stop at Once railway station in Buenos Aires, resulting in 51 deaths and more than 700 injuries.
• Born/died: | [[García Sánchez I of Pamplona|García Template:Nowrap of Pamplona]] |d|970| Charles-Nicolas Cochin |b|1715| Alexis Bachelot |b|1796| Sarah Fuller Flower Adams |b|1805| August Bebel |b|1840| Anna Kingsford |d|1888| Elizabeth Sumner |d|1911| Ted Kennedy |b|1932| Harriet Converse Moody |d|1932| Saufatu Sopoanga |b|1952| Felix Frankfurter |d|1965| James Blunt |b|1974| Drew Barrymore |b|1975| Adrian Boult |d|1983 | Chuck Jones |d|2002|

Notes

• NASCAR appears on February 21, so Daytona 500 should not appear in the same year
• Day of Rage (Bahrain) appears on February 16 and Bahrain Bloody Thursday appears on February 17, so March of loyalty to martyrs should not appear in the same year
• 1974 White House helicopter incident appears on February 17, so Samuel Byck should not appear in the same year

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• 1371 – Robert II became King of Scots as the first monarch of the House of Stewart.
• 1959 – Lee Petty won the first edition of the Daytona 500, a NASCAR auto race at the Daytona International Speedway (pictured) in Florida.
• 1974 – Samuel Byck attempted to hijack an aircraft at Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to assassinate U.S. president Richard Nixon, but he was stopped by police.
• 2019 – A group broke into the North Korean embassy in Madrid, Spain, and stole several mobile telephones and digital storage devices.