Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 22

This is a list of selected February 22 anniversaries that appear in 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 might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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  Johns Hopkins
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  Dolly the sheep
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  Daytona International Speedway
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  The battleship Connecticut running trials; the photographer's boat is moments away from being swamped by the bow wave emanating from the speeding battleship

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Feast of Cathedra Petri (Catholicism);	article is fine, there are just too many observances in 2012 to include this second-class feast
1909 – The sixteen United States Navy battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by Connecticut, completed a circumnavigation of the globe.	Great White Fleet is POTD for 2012
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}}
1959 – Lee Petty won the first Daytona 500 NASCAR auto race at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.	refimprove
1986 – The People Power Revolution, a series of nonviolent mass street demonstrations in the Philippines against the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos, began.	Tagged with {{over detailed}}

Eligible

• 1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: British ships began attacking the Spanish rear of a Franco-Spanish combined fleet in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast near Toulon, France.

• 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.

• 1959 – The President of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem survived a communist assassination attempt by a gunman in Buon Ma Thuot.

• 1980 – At the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United States ice hockey team defeated the Soviet Union in an unlikely victory that became known as the Miracle on Ice.

• 1997 – Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the birth of a cloned sheep named Dolly, the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell, seven months after the fact.

• 2002 – Jonas Savimbi, leader of the Angolan anti-Communist rebel and political party UNITA, was killed in a battle with Angolan government troops.

• 2011 – New Zealand suffered one of its worst peacetime disasters when a 6.5 M_L earthquake struck Christchurch.

February 22: Ash Wednesday/Start of Lent in Western Christianity (2012); Tsagaan Sar in Mongolia (2012); Independence Day in Saint Lucia (1979); 500th anniversary of the death of Amerigo Vespucci

• 1632 – Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, in which he advocated Copernican heliocentrism, was delivered to his patron, Grand Duke Ferdinando.

• 1876 – The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland (Johns Hopkins Hospital pictured), named after philanthropist Johns Hopkins, opened.

• 1958 – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Syrian President Shukri al-Quwatli signed a union pact to form the United Arab Republic.

• 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.

• 2006 – At least six men staged Britain's biggest cash robbery ever at a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

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