Tukuk-OS📅 February 22
15 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on February 22? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2019 — A group broke into the North Korean embassy in Madrid, Spain, and stole several mobile telephones and digital storage devices.
- 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.
2012 Buenos Aires rail disasterBuffer stopOnce railway station
- 2011 — An earthquake registering 6.3 ML 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.
- 2006 — Seven men staged the largest cash robbery in Britain at a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom.
- 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.
Cherry-throated tanagerCritically endangeredConceição do Castelo
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
1980 Winter OlympicsLake Placid, New YorkUnited States men's national ice hockey team
- 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.
Samuel ByckBaltimore/Washington International AirportWhite House
- 1959 — Lee Petty won the first edition of the Daytona 500, a NASCAR auto race at the Daytona International Speedway (pictured) in Florida.
- 1909 — The sixteen United States Navy battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by Connecticut (pictured), completed a circumnavigation of the globe.
- 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.
- 1371 — Robert II became King of Scots as the first monarch of the House of Stewart.
Robert II of ScotlandList of Scottish monarchsHouse of Stuart
- 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.
Principality of CataloniaFerdinand of MajorcaMatilda of Hainaut
Births
- 1999 — Harry Brook, English cricketer
- 1997 — Jerome Robinson, American basketball player
- 1997 — Ilya Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1996 — Kia Nurse, Canadian basketball player
- 1995 — Devonte' Graham, American basketball player
- 1994 — Nam Joo-hyuk, South Korean model and actor
- 1994 — Elfrid Payton, American basketball player
- 1992 — Dixon Machado, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1991 — Khalil Mack, American football player
- 1989 — Franco Vázquez, Argentine footballer
- 1988 — Jonathan Borlée, Belgian sprinter
- 1987 — Han Hyo-joo, South Korean actress and model
Deaths
- 2026 — Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes (born 1966)
- 2024 — John Lowe, English musician, pianist for The Quarrymen (born 1942)
- 2021 — Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet, painter (born 1919)
- 2019 — Brody Stevens, American comedian and actor (born 1970)
- 2019 — Morgan Woodward, American actor (born 1925)
- 2015 — Chris Rainbow, Scottish singer-songwriter and producer (born 1946)
- 2014 — Charlotte Dawson, New Zealand–Australian television host (born 1966)
- 2014 — Trebor Jay Tichenor, American pianist and composer (born 1940)
- 2014 — Leo Vroman, Dutch-American hematologist, poet, and illustrator (born 1915)
- 2013 — Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Dutch speed skater (born 1938)
- 2013 — Jean-Louis Michon, French-Swiss scholar and translator (born 1924)
- 2013 — Wolfgang Sawallisch, German pianist and conductor (born 1923)
Observances & holidays
- Birthday of Scouting and Guiding founder Robert Baden-Powell and Olave Baden-Powell, and its related observance: Founder's Day or "B.-P. day" (World Organization of the Scout Movement)
- Birthday of Scouting and Guiding founder Robert Baden-Powell and Olave Baden-Powell, and its related observance:
World Thinking Day (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts)
World Thinking DayWorld Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
- Christian feast day: Baradates
- Christian feast day: Blessed Émilie d'Oultremont
- Christian feast day: Eric Liddell (Episcopal Church (USA))
- Christian feast day: Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter (Roman Catholic Church)
- Christian feast day: Margaret of Cortona
- Christian feast day: Papias of Hierapolis
- Christian feast day: February 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Crime Victims Day (Europe)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom in 1979.
- Founding Day (Saudi Arabia)
- Washington's Birthday, federal holiday in the United States. A holiday on February 22 as well as the third Monday in February.
- National Cat Day (Japan)
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