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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 -
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Protesters in Bahrain -
Shukri al-Quwatli
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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. | too many {cn} tags |
| 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 – 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 was killed by police. | tagged with {unreliable sources} |
| 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 |
Eligible
- 1371 – Robert II became King of Scots as the first monarch of the House of Stewart.
- 1876 – The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, named after philanthropist Johns Hopkins, opened.
- 1921 – The Bogd Khan was reinstalled as emperor after White Russian forces under Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (pictured) drove the Chinese out of Mongolia.
- 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.
- 1959 – Lee Petty won the first Daytona 500 NASCAR auto race at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2019 – A group broke into the North Korean embassy in Madrid and stole several mobile telephones and digital storage devices.
- Born/died: | García Sánchez I of Pamplona |d|970| Peder Syv |b|1631| Charles-Nicolas Cochin |b|1715| Alexis Bachelot |b|1796| Sarah Fuller Flower Adams |b|1805| James Russell Lowell |b|1819| Anna Kingsford |d|1888| Elizabeth Sumner |d|1911| Ted Kennedy |b|1932| Felix Frankfurter |d|1965| Drew Barrymore |b|1975| Adrian Boult |d|1983
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
February 22: Ash Wednesday (Western Christianity, 2023)
USS Connecticut
- 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.
- 1909 – The sixteen United States Navy battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by Connecticut (pictured), completed a circumnavigation of the globe.
- 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.
- August Bebel ( b. 1840)
- Saufatu Sopoanga ( b. 1952)
- Chuck Jones ( d. 2002)
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