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{{*mp}} [[1819]] – Under the terms of the '''[[Adams–Onís Treaty]]''', [[Spain]] sold [[History of Florida|Florida]] and other [[North America]]n territory to the [[United States]] for about [[United States dollar|US$]]5 million.<!-- unreferenced section |
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{{*mp}} [[1943]] – Members of the '''[[White Rose]]''', a nonviolent [[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. <-- {{morefootnotes}} |
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{{*mp}} [[1958]] – [[President of Egypt|President]] [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] of [[Egypt]] and [[List of Presidents of Syria|President]] [[Shukri al-Quwatli]] of [[Syria]] signed the union pact to form the '''[[United Arab Republic]]'''.<!--Tagged with {{unreferenced}} |
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{{*mp}} [[1959]] – [[Lee Petty]] [[1959 Daytona 500|won]] the first '''[[Daytona 500]]''' [[NASCAR]] [[Auto racing|auto race]] at the [[Daytona International Speedway]] in [[Daytona Beach, Florida|Daytona Beach]], [[Florida]], [[United States|US]].<!--refimprove |
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{{*mp}} [[1986]] – The '''[[People Power Revolution]]''', a series of [[Nonviolence|nonviolent]] mass street [[Demonstration (people)|demonstrations]] in the [[Philippines]] against the regime of [[President of the Philippines|President]] [[Ferdinand Marcos]], began.<!--Tagged with {{expand}} |
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{{*mp}} [[2006]] – At least six men staged [[United Kingdom|Britain]]'s '''[[Securitas depot robbery|biggest robbery]]''' ever, stealing [[Pound Sterling|£]]53,116,760 in bank notes from a [[Securitas AB|Securitas]] depot in [[Tonbridge]], [[Kent]].<!--Tagged {{proseline}} |
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| [[705]] – Empress '''[[Wu Zetian]]''', the only woman to rule China in her own right, abdicated the throne, restoring the [[Tang Dynasty]]. |
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| [[1632]] – [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]]'s '''''[[Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems]]''''', in which he advocated [[Copernican heliocentrism]], was delivered to his patron, [[Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany|Grand Duke Ferdinando]]. |
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| [[1819]] – Under the terms of the '''[[Adams–Onís Treaty]]''', Spain sold [[Spanish Florida|Florida]] and other North American territory to the United States for about {{nowrap|US$5 million}}. |
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| [[1876]] – The '''[[Johns Hopkins University]]''' in [[Baltimore]], Maryland, named after [[Philanthropy|philanthropist]] [[Johns Hopkins]]<!--, who gave the largest philanthropic bequest in [[history of the United States|U.S. history]] for its foundation-->, opened. |
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| [[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. |
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| [[1899]] – [[Philippine–American War]]: Filipino forces launched their '''[[Second Battle of Caloocan|first counterattack]]''' in a failed attempt to recapture [[Manila]] from the Americans. |
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| [[1921]] – The [[Bogd Khan]]<!--not bold, date not in article--> was reinstalled as emperor after [[White movement|White Russian]] forces under '''[[Roman von Ungern-Sternberg]]''' ''(pictured)'' drove the Chinese out of Mongolia. |
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| [[1944]] – [[World War II|World {{nowrap|War II}}]]: U.S. forces carried out '''[[Bombing of Nijmegen|a bombing raid]]''' on the Nazi-occupied Dutch city of [[Nijmegen]], killing hundreds of civilians by accident. |
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| [[1957]] – The President of South Vietnam '''[[Ngo Dinh Diem]]''' survived a [[Viet Cong]] assassination attempt by a gunman in [[Buôn Ma Thuột]]. |
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| [[1958]] – Egyptian President [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] and Syrian President [[Shukri al-Quwatli]] signed a union pact to form the '''[[United Arab Republic]]'''. |
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| [[1995]] – The photos taken by the '''[[Corona (satellite)|''Corona'' spy satellite program]]''' were [[Classified information in the United States|declassified]] under an [[executive order]] signed by U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]]. |
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| [[2002]] – '''[[Jonas Savimbi]]''', leader of the Angolan [[Anti-communism|anti-Communist]] rebel and political party [[UNITA]], was killed in a battle with Angolan government troops. |
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| [[2014]] – After months of [[Euromaidan]]-protests Ukrainian President [[Viktor Yanukovych]] '''[[2014 Ukrainian revolution|was impeached]]''' by the [[Verkhovna Rada]]. |
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* [[1316]] – The [[Principality of Catalonia|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. |
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* [[1744]] – [[War of the Austrian Succession]]: British ships '''[[Battle of Toulon (1744)|began attacking the rear of a combined Franco-Spanish fleet]]''' in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of [[Toulon]], France. |
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* [[1909]] – The sixteen [[United States Navy]] battleships of the [[Great White Fleet]]<!--not bold, refimprove-->, led by '''{{USS|Connecticut|BB-18|2}}'''<!--[[USS Connecticut (BB-18)]]--> ''(pictured)'', completed a [[circumnavigation]] of the globe. |
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* [[1980]] – At [[1980 Winter Olympics|the Winter Olympics]] in [[Lake Placid, New York]], the [[United States men's national ice hockey team|United States ice hockey team]] defeated the [[Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team|Soviet team]] in an unlikely victory that became known as the '''[[Miracle on Ice]]'''. |
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* [[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 theatre|Broadway]] failures are judged. |
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* [[1997]] – Scientists at the [[Roslin Institute]] in Scotland announced the existence of '''[[Dolly (sheep)|Dolly]]'''<!--''(pictured)''-->, a female sheep who was the first mammal to have successfully been [[Cloning|cloned]] from an adult cell. |
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* [[2006]] – Seven men staged the '''[[Securitas depot robbery|largest cash robbery in Britain]]''' at a [[Securitas AB|Securitas]] depot in [[Tonbridge]], [[Kent]], United Kingdom. |
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* [[2011]] – '''[[2011 Christchurch earthquake|An earthquake]]''' registering 6.3 [[Richter magnitude scale|M<sub>L</sub>]] struck [[Christchurch]], New Zealand, killing 185 people and causing around [[New Zealand dollar|NZ$]]40 billion in damage. |
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* [[2011]] – [[Bahraini uprising of 2011|Bahraini uprising]]: Tens of thousands of people '''[[March of loyalty to martyrs|marched in protest]]''' in [[Manama]] against the deaths of seven people killed by police and army forces during previous protests. |
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* [[2012]] – A train '''[[2012 Buenos Aires rail disaster|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. |
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* Born/died: | '''[[García Sánchez I of Pamplona|García {{nowrap|Sánchez I}} of Pamplona]]'''<!--King--> |d|970| '''[[Charles-Nicolas Cochin]]'''<!--French engraver--> |b|1715| '''[[Alexis Bachelot]]'''<!--French missionary--> |b|1796| '''[[Sarah Fuller Flower Adams]]'''<!--English poet--> |b|1805| '''[[August Bebel]]'''<!--German politician--> |b|1840| '''[[Anna Kingsford]]'''<!--English activist--> |d|1888| '''[[Elizabeth Sumner]]'''<!--Hawaiian chief--> |d|1911| '''[[Ted Kennedy]]'''<!--American politician--> |b|1932| '''[[Saufatu Sopoanga]]'''<!--Tuvaluan prime minister--> |b|1952| '''[[Felix Frankfurter]]'''<!--American jurist--> |d|1965| '''[[Drew Barrymore]]'''<!--American actress--> |b|1975| '''[[Adrian Boult]]'''<!--English conductor--> |d|1983 | '''[[Chuck Jones]]'''<!--American animator--> |d|2002 |
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{{*mp}} [[1632]] – [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]]'s ''[[Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems]]'' was delivered to his patron, [[Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany|Grand Duke Ferdinando]]. |
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* [[NASCAR]] appears on [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 21|February 21]], so Daytona 500 should not appear in the same year |
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{{*mp}} [[1876]] – The '''[[Johns Hopkins University]]''' in [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]], [[Maryland]], [[United States|US]], named after philanthropist [[Johns Hopkins], who gave the largest philanthropic bequest in [[history of the United States|U.S. history]] for its foundation, opened. |
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* [[Day of Rage (Bahrain)]] appears on [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 16|February 16]] and [[Bahrain Bloody Thursday]] appears on [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 17|February 17]], so March of loyalty to martyrs should not appear in the same year |
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{{*mp}} [[1959]] – The President of [[South Vietnam]] '''[[Ngo Dinh Diem]]''' survived a [[Vietcong|communist]] assassination attempt by a gunman in [[Ban Me Thuot]].<!--NOTE: Ngo Dinh Diem shows up on Selected Anniversaries numerous times |
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* [[1974 White House helicopter incident]] appears on [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 17|February 17]], so Samuel Byck should not appear in the same year |
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{{*mp}} [[1983]] – The play '''''[[Moose Murders]]''''' opened and closed on the same night at the [[Eugene O'Neill Theatre]] in [[New York City]], becoming the standard of awfulness against which all [[Broadway theatre]] failures are judged. |
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'''[[February 22]]''': <!--'''[[Ash Wednesday]]/Start of [[Lent]]''' in [[Western Christianity]] ([[2012]]); '''[[Clean Monday]]/Start of [[Great Lent]]''' ([[Julian calendar]], [[2011]]); -->[[Independence Day]] in '''[[Saint Lucia]]''' ([[1979]]); '''[[Chair of Saint Peter|Feast of Cathedra Petri]]''' ([[Catholicism]]) |
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{{*mp}} [[1744]] – [[War of the Austrian Succession]]: [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] ships '''[[Battle of Toulon (1744)|began attacking]]''' the [[Spain|Spanish]] rear of a [[Early Modern France|Franco]]-Spanish combined fleet in the [[Mediterranean Sea]] off the coast near [[Toulon]], France. |
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{{*mp}} [[1909]] – The sixteen [[United States Navy]] battleships of the [[Great White Fleet]], led by '''{{USS|Connecticut|BB-18|2}}''' ''(pictured)'', completed a [[circumnavigation]] of the globe. |
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{{*mp}} [[1980]] – At the [[1980 Winter Olympics|Winter Olympics]] in [[Lake Placid, New York|Lake Placid]], [[New York]], the [[United States men's national ice hockey team|United States ice hockey team]] defeated the [[Soviet Union national ice hockey team|Soviet Union]] in an unlikely victory that became known as the '''[[Miracle on Ice]]'''. |
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{{*mp}} [[1997]] – Scientists at the [[Roslin Institute]] in [[Scotland]] announced the birth of a [[cloning|cloned]] [[sheep]] named '''[[Dolly (sheep)|Dolly]]''', the first mammal to have been successfully [[cloning|cloned]] from an adult cell, seven months after the fact. |
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{{*mp}} [[2002]] – '''[[Jonas Savimbi]]''', leader of the [[Angola]]n [[Anti-communism|anti-Communist]] rebel and [[List of political parties in Angola|political party]] [[UNITA]], was killed in a battle with Angolan government troops. |
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* [[1371]] – '''[[Robert II of Scotland|Robert II]]'''<!-- ''(pictured)''--> became [[List of Scottish monarchs|King of Scots]] as the first monarch of the [[House of Stuart|House of Stewart]]. |
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* [[1959]] – [[Lee Petty]] won the '''[[1959 Daytona 500|first Daytona 500]]''' [[NASCAR]] auto race at the [[Daytona International Speedway]] ''(pictured)'' in [[Daytona Beach, Florida]]. |
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* [[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 [[Richard Nixon]], but he was stopped by police. |
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* [[2019]] – '''[[North Korean Embassy in Madrid incident|A group broke into]]''' the North Korean embassy in [[Madrid]] and stole several mobile telephones and digital storage devices. |
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{{Born and died list|'''[[Peder Syv]]'''<!--Danish scholar--> |b|1631|'''[[James Russell Lowell]]'''<!--American poet--> |b|1819| '''[[Clarence 13X]]'''<!--American religious leader--> |b|1928| '''[[Bronwyn Oliver]]'''<!--Australian sculptor--> |b|1959| }} |
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Latest revision as of 00:27, 24 May 2024
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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 US$5 million. | 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: 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 |
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- 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 Connecticut (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.
- 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 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.
- 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 |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| Saufatu Sopoanga |b|1952| Felix Frankfurter |d|1965| 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
- 1371 – Robert II became King of Scots as the first monarch of the House of Stewart.
- 1959 – Lee Petty won the first Daytona 500 NASCAR auto race at the Daytona International Speedway (pictured) in Daytona Beach, 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 Richard Nixon, but he was stopped by police.
- 2019 – A group broke into the North Korean embassy in Madrid and stole several mobile telephones and digital storage devices.
- Peder Syv (b. 1631)
- James Russell Lowell (b. 1819)
- Clarence 13X (b. 1928)
- Bronwyn Oliver (b. 1959)