Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 22

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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.

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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
1632Galileo'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]
1899Philippine–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
1944World 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
2002Jonas 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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