Historical events on February 22
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
A group broke into the North Korean embassy in Madrid, Spain, and stole several mobile telephones and digital storage devices.
On 22 February 2019 at the Embassy of North Korea in Madrid, the political group Free Joseon, which is opposed to the
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FEBRUARY 22, 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.
The Roslin Institute is an animal sciences research institute at Easter Bush, Midlothian, Scotland, part of the University of Edinburgh, and is
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FEBRUARY 22, 2011
An earthquake registering 6.3 ML struck Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 185 people and causing around NZ$40 billion in damage.
A major earthquake occurred in Christchurch on Tuesday 22 February 2011 at 12:51 p.m. local time. The Mw6.2 earthquake struck the Canterbury Region in
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FEBRUARY 22, 1371
Robert II became King of Scots as the first monarch of the House of Stewart.
Robert II was King of Scots from 1371 to his death in 1390. The son of Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of
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FEBRUARY 22, 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.
The cherry-throated tanager is a critically endangered bird native to the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. Since its description in 1870, based on
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FEBRUARY 22, 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.
The Principality of Catalonia was a medieval and early modern state in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula. During most of its history it
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FEBRUARY 22, 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.
The War of the Austrian Succession was a European conflict fought between 1740 and 1748, primarily in Central Europe, the Austrian Netherlands,
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FEBRUARY 22, 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.
The 2012 Buenos Aires rail disaster, also known as the Once Tragedy, occurred on 22 February 2012, when a train crashed at
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FEBRUARY 22, 2006
Seven men staged the largest cash robbery in Britain at a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom.
The 2006 Securitas depot robbery in Tonbridge, England, was the UK's largest cash heist. It began with a kidnapping on the evening
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FEBRUARY 22, 1909
The sixteen United States Navy battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by Connecticut (pictured), completed a circumnavigation of the globe.
The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is the world's most
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FEBRUARY 22, 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.
The 2011 Bahraini uprising was a series of anti-government protests in Bahrain led by the mainly Shia and some Sunni Bahraini opposition
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