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22 February, 2006
At least six men stage Britains biggest robbery ever, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
22 February, 2002
Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
22 February, 1997
In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
22 February, 1994
Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
22 February, 1986
Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
22 February, 1980
Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3, in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
22 February, 1979
Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
22 February, 1974
Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) summit conference starts in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries are attending. Twenty-two heads of state and government participate.
22 February, 1974
Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
22 February, 1973
Cold War: Following United States President Richard Nixons visit to the Peoples Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
22 February, 1959
Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
22 February, 1958
Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
22 February, 1948
Communist coup in Czechoslovakia.
22 February, 1944
American aircraft bombard the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer by mistake, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
22 February, 1943
Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
22 February, 1942
World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defenses collapses.
22 February, 1924
Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
22 February, 1923
The United States begins the first transcontinental air mail route.
22 February, 1920
In Emeryville, New York, the first dog race track to employ an imitation rabbit opens.
22 February, 1915
World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
22 February, 1904
The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
22 February, 1889
President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
22 February, 1882
The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
22 February, 1879
In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores.
22 February, 1862
Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
22 February, 1856
The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
22 February, 1847
Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista - 5,000 American troops drive off 15,000 Mexicans.
22 February, 1819
By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
22 February, 1744
War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
22 February, 1632
Galileos Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
22 February, 1495
King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the citys throne.

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