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=Pre-1600=

  • 1076 – Having received a letter during the Lenten synod of 14–20 February demanding that he abdicate,{{cite book|last=Blumenthal|first=Uta-Renate|chapter=Gregory VII|title=Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia|editor-last=Jeep|editor-first=John M.|location=New York|publisher=Garland Publishing|date=2001|isbn=9781138062658|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p4uHav3mZLsC|page=310|access-date=2022-02-14|archive-date=2022-01-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109155448/https://books.google.com/books?id=p4uHav3mZLsC|url-status=live}} Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.{{cite book|last1=Lott|first1=Elizabeth S.|last2=Pavlac|first2=Brian Alexander|title=The Holy Roman Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2019|isbn=9781440848551|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=arSYDwAAQBAJ|page=235|postscript=none|access-date=2022-02-14|archive-date=2021-12-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210075318/https://books.google.com/books?id=arSYDwAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}; {{cite book|last=Robinson|first=James Harvey|title=Readings in European History. Vol. I|location=Boston|publisher=Ginn & Company|date=1904|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SwcUFENZX68C|page=281|isbn=9781434470843|access-date=2022-02-14|archive-date=2022-02-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143316/https://books.google.com/books?id=SwcUFENZX68C|url-status=live}}
  • 1316 – The Battle of Picotin, between Ferdinand of Majorca and the forces of Matilda of Hainaut, ends in victory for Ferdinand.{{cite book|author1=ed SETTON|author2=Kenneth Meyer Setton|title=A History of the Crusades: The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, edited by H. W. Hazard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J6v9jhUd-r8C&pg=PA112|year=1969|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-06670-3|pages=112|access-date=2019-09-27|archive-date=2020-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801123451/https://books.google.com/books?id=J6v9jhUd-r8C&pg=PA112|url-status=live}}
  • 1371 – Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.{{cite book|author=Andrew Lang|title=A Short History of Scotland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-rfCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT46|date=20 November 2019|publisher=Good Press|pages=46|access-date=26 July 2020|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801124748/https://books.google.com/books?id=-rfCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT46|url-status=live}}
  • 1495 – King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.{{cite book|author=Bard Thompson|title=Humanists and Reformers: A History of the Renaissance and Reformation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hrq9d567398C&pg=PA296|year=1996|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|isbn=978-0-8028-6348-5|pages=296|access-date=2020-07-26|archive-date=2020-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801115927/https://books.google.com/books?id=Hrq9d567398C&pg=PA296|url-status=live}}

=1601–1900=

  • 1632 – Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, the dedicatee, receives the first printed copy of Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems.{{cite book|last=Gindikin|first=Semen Grigorʹevich|title=Tales of physicists and mathematicians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vhx--jfFN8IC&pg=PA62|access-date=22 February 2011|year=1988|publisher=Birkhäuser|isbn=978-0-8176-3317-2|page=62|archive-date=4 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140704035231/http://books.google.com/books?id=Vhx--jfFN8IC&pg=PA62|url-status=live}}
  • 1651 – St. Peter's Flood: A storm surge floods the Frisian coast, drowning 15,000 people.{{Cite web |date=2023-06-15 |title=St. Peter's Flood – February 22, 1651 |url=https://www.calendarz.com/on-this-day/february/22/st-peters-flood |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=calendarz.com |language=en}}
  • 1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon causes several Royal Navy captains to be court-martialed, and the Articles of War to be amended.{{cite DNB|wstitle= Mathews, Thomas |volume= 37 |last= Laughton |first= John Knox |author-link= John Knox Laughton |pages= 43-46 |year= |short=1}}
  • 1770 – British customs officer Ebenezer Richardson fires blindly into a crowd during a protest in North End, Boston, fatally wounding 11-year-old Christopher Seider; the first American fatality of the American Revolution.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/christopher-seider-the-first-casualty-in-the-american-revolutionary-cause/|title=Christopher Seider: The First Casualty in the American Revolutionary Cause|date=2015-07-31|publisher=New England Historical Society|language=en-US|access-date=2023-10-01}}
  • 1797 – The last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.{{cite web |title=Llanelli and the Fishguard Invasion |url=https://www.llanellich.org.uk/files/356-llanelli-fishguard-invasion |website=llanellich.org.uk |publisher=Teftadaeth Cymuned Llanelli ~ Llanelli Community Heritage |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-date=22 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122090942/https://www.llanellich.org.uk/files/356-llanelli-fishguard-invasion |url-status=live }}
  • 1819 – By the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.{{cite book |last1=Crutchfield |first1=James A. |last2=Moutlon |first2=Candy |last3=Bene |first3=Terry Del |title=The Settlement of America: An Encyclopedia of Westward Expansion from Jamestown to the Closing of the Frontier |date=26 March 2015 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-45461-8 |page=51 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lGusBwAAQBAJ |language=en |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-date=23 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143300/https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Settlement_of_America/lGusBwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |url-status=live }}
  • 1847 – Mexican–American War: The Battle of Buena Vista: Five thousand American troops defeat 15,000 Mexican troops.{{cite book |last1=Bauer |first1=Karl Jack |title=The Mexican War, 1846-1848 |date=1 January 1992 |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-0-8032-6107-5 |page=210 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_1DqVTdwmVkC |access-date=5 February 2022 |language=en |archive-date=23 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143300/https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Mexican_War_1846_1848/_1DqVTdwmVkC?hl=en&gbpv=0 |url-status=live }}
  • 1848 – The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins.{{cite book |last1=Beecher |first1=Jonathan |title=Writers and Revolution: Intellectuals and the French Revolution of 1848 |date=April 2021 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-84253-2 |page=47 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TvQgEAAAQBAJ |access-date=5 February 2022 |language=en |archive-date=23 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143300/https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Writers_and_Revolution/TvQgEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |url-status=live }}
  • 1856 – The United States Republican Party opens its first national convention in Pittsburgh.{{cite web|url=https://www.ushistory.org/gop/origins.htm|title=The Origins of the Republican Party|access-date=2022-11-16|archive-date=2012-09-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930194002/http://www.ushistory.org/gop/origins.htm|url-status=live}}
  • 1862 – American Civil War: 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.{{cite book |last1=Dodd |first1=William Edward |title=Jefferson Davis |date=1 January 1997 |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-0-8032-6609-4 |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r1X3lFbBSW4C |access-date=5 February 2022 |language=en |archive-date=23 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143301/https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/_/r1X3lFbBSW4C?hl=en&gbpv=0 |url-status=live }}
  • 1872 – The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.{{Cite news |url=https://tile.loc.gov/image-services/iiif/service:gdc:dcmsiabooks:br:ie:fh:is:to:ry:of:pr:00:bl:ac:briefhistoryofpr00blac:briefhistoryofpr00blac_0025/full/pct:100/0/default.jpg |title=Page Twenty Three of Brief history of prohibition and of the prohibition reform party |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200318021022/https://tile.loc.gov/image-services/iiif/service:gdc:dcmsiabooks:br:ie:fh:is:to:ry:of:pr:00:bl:ac:briefhistoryofpr00blac:briefhistoryofpr00blac_0025/full/pct:100/0/default.jpg |archive-date=March 18, 2020 |page=23}}
  • 1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.{{cite book |last1=Winkler |first1=John K. |title=Five and Ten: The Fabulous Life of F. W. Woolworth |date=31 July 2017 |publisher=Pickle Partners Publishing |isbn=978-1-78720-790-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GtwuDwAAQBAJ |access-date=5 February 2022 |language=en |archive-date=23 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143313/https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Five_and_Ten/GtwuDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |url-status=live }}
  • 1881 – Cleopatra's Needle, a 3,500-year-old Ancient Egyptian obelisk is erected in Central Park, New York.{{Cite web|url=http://www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/attractions/obelisk.html|title=Obelisk|website=The Official Website of Central Park NYC|access-date=August 26, 2019|date=January 29, 2019|archive-date=April 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424124927/http://www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/attractions/obelisk.html|url-status=live}}
  • 1889 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.{{cite web |title=State History Enabling Act |url=https://leg.wa.gov/History/State/Pages/enabling.aspx |website=leg.wa.gov |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-date=5 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220205160707/https://leg.wa.gov/History/State/Pages/enabling.aspx |url-status=live }}
  • 1899 – Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.{{cite book |last1=Linn |first1=Brian McAllister |title=The Philippine War, 1899-1902 |date=2000 |publisher=University Press of Kansas |location=Lawrence |isbn=0-7006-1225-4 |page=59}}

=1901–present=

  • 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.{{Cite journal |last1=Dudeney |first1=John R. |last2=Walton |first2=David W.H. |date=October 2012 |title=From Scotia to 'Operation Tabarin': developing British policy for Antarctica |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0032247411000520/type/journal_article |journal=Polar Record |language=en |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=342–360 |doi=10.1017/S0032247411000520 |bibcode=2012PoRec..48..342D |s2cid=145613031 |issn=0032-2474}}
  • 1909 – The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by {{USS|Connecticut|BB-18|6}}, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.{{cite web |title=The Great White Fleet |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq42-1.htm |publisher=Department of the Navy – Naval History and Heritage Command |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20120204131704/http%3A//www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq42-1.htm |archive-date=4 February 2012 |date=20 December 2005 |url-status=dead}}
  • 1921 – After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}
  • 1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.{{Cite web |date=November 16, 2009 |title=President Roosevelt to MacArthur: Get out of the Philippines |url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-roosevelt-to-macarthur-get-out-of-the-philippines |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=HISTORY |publisher=A&E Television Networks |language=en}}
  • 1943 – World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.{{cite book |last1=Scholl |first1=Inge |title=The White Rose: Munich, 1942–1943 |date=June 1983 |publisher=Wesleyan University Press |isbn=978-0-8195-6086-5 |pages=9, 15, 138, 149 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LgSlZdGXhVUC |access-date=5 February 2022 |language=en |archive-date=23 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143301/https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_White_Rose/LgSlZdGXhVUC?hl=en&gbpv=0 |url-status=live }}
  • 1943 – Yankee Clipper crashes while landing on the Tagus in Lisbon, killing 24.{{cite report |url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19430222-0 |title=Report of the Civil Aeronautics Board |date=9 September 1943 |publisher=Civil Aeronautics Board |access-date=10 November 2024}}
  • 1944 – World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.{{Cite web |url=http://www.oorlogsdodennijmegen.nl/gebeurtenis/42d66138-d771-4448-b125-01fa56486f97 |title=Bombardement 22 februari 1944 Nijmegen |work=Oorlogsdoden Nijmegen |access-date=20 August 2016 |language=nl |archive-date=21 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821040555/http://www.oorlogsdodennijmegen.nl/gebeurtenis/42d66138-d771-4448-b125-01fa56486f97 |url-status=live }}
  • 1944 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Krivoi Rog.{{cite web |title=Krivoi-Rog |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/krivoi-rog |website=The Jewish Virtual Library |access-date=26 October 2022 |archive-date=26 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221026203533/https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/krivoi-rog |url-status=live }}
  • 1946 – The "Long Telegram", proposing how the United States should deal with the Soviet Union, arrives from the US embassy in Moscow.{{Cite book|title=The World Transformed:1945 to the Present|last=Hunt|first=Michael|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2013|isbn=9780199371020|pages=44}}
  • 1957 – Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột.{{cite book |last1=Moyar |first1=Mark |title=Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965 |date=28 August 2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-139-45921-1 |page=66 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=phJrZ87RwuAC |access-date=5 February 2022 |language=en |archive-date=23 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143301/https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Triumph_Forsaken/phJrZ87RwuAC?hl=en&gbpv=0 |url-status=live }}
  • 1958 – Following a plebiscite in both countries the previous day, Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96296879/cairo-wild-as-nasser-takes-post/|title=Cairo Wild as Nasser Takes Post|newspaper=Fort Lauderdale News|date=February 23, 1958|access-date=February 24, 2022|archive-date=January 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230104130337/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96296879/cairo-wild-as-nasser-takes-post/|url-status=live}}
  • 1959 – Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.{{cite web |title=Race Results |url=https://www.racing-reference.info/race-results/1959_Daytona_500/W/ |website=Racing-Reference.info |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-date=24 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124005918/https://www.racing-reference.info/race-results/1959_Daytona_500/W/ |url-status=live }}
  • 1972 – The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.{{cite news |title=1972: IRA bomb kills six at Aldershot barracks |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/22/newsid_2519000/2519029.stm |publisher=BBC News – On this day |date=22 February 1972 |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-date=7 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113337/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/22/newsid_2519000/2519029.stm |url-status=live }}
  • 1973 – Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.{{Cite web |date=2017-01-18 |title=The Opening of China » |url=https://www.nixonfoundation.org/exhibit/the-opening-of-china/ |access-date=2022-09-07 |language=en-US}}
  • 1974 – The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.{{cite web |title=Second Islamic Summit Conference 1974 |url=http://formun.fccsocieties.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Islamic_Summit_1974_FORMUN_2013.pdf |publisher=Forman Christian College Model United Nations |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130626060300/http://formun.fccsocieties.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Islamic_Summit_1974_FORMUN_2013.pdf |archive-date=26 June 2013 |date=2013 |url-status=dead}}
  • 1974 – Samuel Byck attempts to hijack an aircraft at Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to assassinate Richard Nixon, but commits suicide after being wounded by police.{{Cite web|url=http://www.rvv.com/peacemaker/Samuel_Byck.htm|title=The Samuel Byck Association Attempt|date=January 9, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050109073412/http://www.rvv.com/peacemaker/Samuel_Byck.htm|archive-date=2005-01-09}}
  • 1979 – Saint Lucia gains independence from the United Kingdom.{{cite web|title=Saint Lucia – Countries|url=https://history.state.gov/countries/saint-lucia|website=Office of the Historian|access-date=March 21, 2022|archive-date=March 22, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322021056/https://history.state.gov/countries/saint-lucia|url-status=live}}
  • 1980 – Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3.{{cite news |title=America surprise Soviets, 4-3 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nLssAAAAIBAJ&pg=6346%2C4551880 |access-date=5 February 2022 |work=Star-News |agency=Associated Press |date=23 February 1980 |archive-date=5 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220205203433/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nLssAAAAIBAJ&pg=6346,4551880 |url-status=live }}
  • 1983 – The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.{{cite news |last1=Robertson |first1=Campbell |title=A Broadway Flop Again Raises Its Antlers |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/theater/21moos.html |access-date=7 February 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=21 April 2008 |archive-date=23 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211223212552/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/theater/21moos.html |url-status=live }}
  • 1986 – Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.{{cite book |last1=Ackerman |first1=Peter |last2=DuVall |first2=Jack |title=A Force More Powerful: A Century of Non-Violent Conflict |date=5 October 2001 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-0-312-24050-9 |page=527 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-1TMCQAAQBAJ |access-date=7 February 2022 |language=en |archive-date=23 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143303/https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/A_Force_More_Powerful/-1TMCQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |url-status=live }}
  • 1994 – Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.{{cite web |last=Bromwich |first=Michael R. |author-link=Michael R. Bromwich |date=April 1997 |title=A Review of the FBI's Performance in Uncovering the Espionage Activities of Aldrich Hazen Ames |url=https://oig.justice.gov/special/9704.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170514003744/https://oig.justice.gov/special/9704.htm |archive-date=May 14, 2017 |access-date=April 26, 2011}}
  • 1995 – The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.[https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/WCPD-1995-02-27/pdf/WCPD-1995-02-27-Pg304.pdf Executive Order 12951—Release of Imagery Acquired by Space-Based National Intelligence Reconnaissance Systems]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115202814/https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/WCPD-1995-02-27/pdf/WCPD-1995-02-27-Pg304.pdf |date=2021-01-15 }}, retrieved 22 February 2022
  • 1997 – In Roslin, Midlothian, British scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.{{cite news |title=1997: Dolly the sheep is cloned |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/22/newsid_4245000/4245877.stm |publisher=BBC News-On this day |access-date=2022-02-07 |archive-date=2019-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191127065734/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/22/newsid_4245000/4245877.stm |url-status=live }}
  • 2002 – Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.{{cite news |title=Jonas Savimbi |url=http://www.economist.com/node/1010682 |access-date=7 February 2022 |newspaper=The Economist |date=28 February 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809223508/http://www.economist.com/node/1010682 |archive-date=9 August 2014}}
  • 2005 – The 6.4 {{M|w}} Zarand earthquake shakes the Kerman province of Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 612 people dead and 1,411 injured.{{cite news |title=Hundreds killed in Iranian quake |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4286129.stm |access-date=7 February 2022 |publisher=BBC News |date=22 February 2005 |archive-date=23 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143306/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4286129.stm |url-status=live }}
  • 2006 – At approximately 6:44 a.m. local Iraqi time, explosions occurred at the al-Askari Shrine in Samarra, Iraq. The attack on the shrine, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, caused the escalation of sectarian tensions in Iraq into a full-scale civil war.{{cite web|title='1,300 dead' in Iraq sectarian violence |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/28/iraq1|access-date=2022-01-01|website=The Guardian|archive-date=2022-06-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220627185217/https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/28/iraq1|url-status=live}}
  • 2006 – The Securitas depot robbery was the UK's largest heist. Almost £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) was stolen from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.{{cite book |last1=Vito |first1=Gennaro F. |last2=Maahs |first2=Jeffrey R. |last3=Holmes |first3=Ronald M. |title=Criminology: Theory, Research, and Policy |date=2006 |publisher=Jones & Bartlett Learning |location=Burlington, Massachusetts |isbn=978-0-7637-3001-7 |page=289 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2tehE36CziMC |language=en |access-date=20 March 2022 |archive-date=22 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922104224/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Criminology/2tehE36CziMC |url-status=live}}
  • 2011 – New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake, the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, kills 185 people.{{cite news |title=Dozens killed in New Zealand's 'darkest day' |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-02-22/dozens-killed-in-new-zealands-darkest-day/1953118 |access-date=7 February 2022 |publisher=ABC News|location=Australia |date=22 February 2011 |language=en-AU |archive-date=7 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220207114416/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-02-22/dozens-killed-in-new-zealands-darkest-day/1953118 |url-status=live }}
  • 2011 – Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests.{{cite news |title=Bahrain unrest: Thousands join anti-government protest |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12535681 |access-date=7 February 2022 |publisher=BBC News |date=22 February 2011 |archive-date=7 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161207081029/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12535681 |url-status=live }}
  • 2012 – A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.{{cite news |title=El tercer accidente ferroviario más grave en la historia del país |url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/anteriores-choques-de-trenes-nid1450641/ |access-date=7 February 2022 |work=La Nacion |date=23 February 2012 |language=es |archive-date=7 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220207114416/https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/anteriores-choques-de-trenes-nid1450641/ |url-status=live }}
  • 2014 – President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328–0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion.{{cite news |last1=Higgins |first1=Andrew |last2=Kramer |first2=Andrew E. |title=Archrival Is Freed as Ukraine Leader Flees |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/world/europe/ukraine.html |access-date=7 February 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=22 February 2014 |archive-date=23 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523091912/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/world/europe/ukraine.html |url-status=live }}
  • 2015 – A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people.{{cite news |last1=Ahmed |first1=Farid |title=68 dead in Bangladesh ferry accident |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/22/asia/bangladesh-ferry-accident/ |access-date=7 February 2022 |publisher=CNN|date=22 February 2015 |archive-date=7 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220207114416/https://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/22/asia/bangladesh-ferry-accident/ |url-status=live }}
  • 2018 – A man throws a grenade at the U.S. embassy in Podgorica, Montenegro. He dies at the scene from a second explosion, with no one else hurt.{{cite news |last1=Surk |first1=Barbara |title=Bomb Thrown at U.S. Embassy in Montenegro; Attacker Kills Himself |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/world/europe/montenegro-embassy-attacked.html |access-date=7 February 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=22 February 2018 |archive-date=7 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220207114359/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/world/europe/montenegro-embassy-attacked.html |url-status=live }}
  • 2022 – Twosday, the name given to Tuesday, February 22, 2022, at 2:22:22, occurs.{{cite web | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/02/22/twosday-2-22-22-palindrome/6884226001/ | title=It's 'Twosday!' No matter where you are in the world, today's palindrome date is the same | website=USA Today }}

Births

=Pre-1600=

  • 1040 – Rashi, French rabbi and author (d. 1105){{Cite web |title=Biblical criticism |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/biblical-criticism |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |language=en}}
  • 1403 – Charles VII of France (d. 1461){{cite book |last1=Vale |first1=M. G. A. (Malcolm Graham Allan) |title=Charles VII |date=1974 |publisher=Berkeley : University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-02787-9 |page=21}}
  • 1440 – Ladislaus the Posthumous, Hungarian King (d. 1457){{cite encyclopedia |title=Ladislas V |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ladislas-V |access-date=29 May 2022 |archive-date=29 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220729013610/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ladislas-V |url-status=live }}
  • 1500 – Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian cardinal (d. 1564)
  • 1514 – Tahmasp I, Iranian shah (d. 1576)
  • 1520 – Moses Isserles, Polish rabbi (d. 1572)
  • 1550 – Charles de Ligne, 2nd Prince of Arenberg (d. 1616)
  • 1592 – Nicholas Ferrar, English scholar (d. 1637)

=1601–1900=

=1901–present=

  • 1903 – Morley Callaghan, Canadian author and playwright (d. 1990){{cite web|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/morley-callaghan|title=Morley Callaghan|website=The Canadian Encyclopedia|access-date=February 14, 2022|archive-date=February 14, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214191118/https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/morley-callaghan|url-status=live}}
  • 1903 – Frank P. Ramsey, English economist, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1930){{cite book | last = Sahlin | first = FirstName | title = The philosophy of F.P. Ramsey | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge England New York | year = 1990 | isbn = 9780521385435 | page=221}}
  • 1906 – Constance Stokes, Australian painter (d. 1991)
  • 1907 – Sheldon Leonard, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1997){{cite web |title=Famous birthdays for Feb. 22: Vijay Singh, Rachel Dratch |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2023/02/22/Famous-birthdays-for-Feb-22-Vijay-Singh-Rachel-Dratch/6981676751696/ |publisher=UPI |access-date=21 February 2024 |date=22 February 2023 |archive-date=20 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320101842/https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2023/02/22/Famous-birthdays-for-Feb-22-Vijay-Singh-Rachel-Dratch/6981676751696/ |url-status=live }}
  • 1907 – Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)
  • 1908 – Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan politician, 56th President of Venezuela (d. 1981)
  • 1908 – John Mills, English actor (d. 2005)Brian McFarlane, "Mills, Sir John Lewis Ernest Watts (1908–2005)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Jan 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/96589 available online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143310/https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-96589;jsessionid=C92530A722470E8387A8056E226AC167 |date=2022-02-23 }}. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
  • 1910 – George Hunt, English footballer (d. 1996){{Hugman|9696|George Hunt|access-date=17 February 2020}}
  • 1914 – Renato Dulbecco, Italian-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
  • 1915 – Gus Lesnevich, American boxer (d. 1964)
  • 1918 – Sid Abel, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2000)
  • 1918 – Don Pardo, American radio and television announcer (d. 2014)
  • 1918 – Robert Wadlow, American man, the tallest person in recorded history (d. 1940)
  • 1921 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Central African general and politician, 2nd President of the Central African Republic (d. 1996)
  • 1921 – Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (d. 1994)
  • 1921 – Marshall Teague, American race car driver (d. 1959)
  • 1922 – Zenaida Manfugás, Cuban pianist (d. 2012)[http://www.cir-integracion-racial-cuba.org/zenaida-manfugas/ Posracialidad: Comité Ciudadanos por la Integración Racial]
  • 1922 – Joe Wilder, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (d. 2014)
  • 1923 – François Cavanna, French author and editor (d. 2014)
  • 1923 – Bleddyn Williams, Welsh rugby player and sportscaster (d. 2009)
  • 1925 – Edward Gorey, American illustrator and poet (d. 2000)
  • 1925 – Gerald Stern, American poet and academic (d. 2022)
  • 1926 – Kenneth Williams, English actor and screenwriter (d. 1988)
  • 1927 – Florencio Campomanes, Filipino political scientist and chess player (d. 2010)
  • 1927 – Guy Mitchell, American singer (d. 1999)
  • 1928 – Clarence 13X, American religious leader, founded the Nation of Gods and Earths (d. 1969)
  • 1928 – Texas Johnny Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
  • 1928 – Paul Dooley, American actor
  • 1928 – Bruce Forsyth, English singer and television host (d. 2017)
  • 1928 – Thomas E. Kurtz, American computer scientist and educator (d. 2024){{Cite news |last=Rosen |first=Kenneth R. |date=November 16, 2024 |title=Thomas E. Kurtz, a Creator of BASIC Computer Language, Dies at 96 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/technology/thomas-kurtz-dead.html |access-date=November 20, 2024 |work=The New York Times}}
  • 1929 – James Hong, American actor and director
  • 1929 – Rebecca Schull, American stage, film, and television actress
  • 1930 – Marni Nixon, American soprano and actress (d. 2016)
  • 1932 – Ted Kennedy, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 2009)
  • 1933 – Sheila Hancock, English actress and author
  • 1933 – Katharine, Duchess of Kent
  • 1933 – Ernie K-Doe, American R&B singer (d. 2001)
  • 1933 – Bobby Smith, English footballer (d. 2010){{cite web|url=https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news-archive-1/obituary-bobby-smith/|title=Obituary: Bobby Smith|website=tottenhamhotspur.com|access-date=17 February 2020|archive-date=17 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200217124359/https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news-archive-1/obituary-bobby-smith/|url-status=live}}
  • 1934 – Sparky Anderson, American baseball player and manager (d. 2010)
  • 1936 – J. Michael Bishop, American microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1937 – Tommy Aaron, American golfer
  • 1937 – Joanna Russ, American author and activist (d. 2011)
  • 1938 – Steve Barber, American baseball player (d. 2007)
  • 1938 – Tony Macedo, Gibraltarian born English footballer{{Hugman|12422|Tony Macedo|access-date=17 February 2020}}
  • 1938 – Ishmael Reed, American poet, novelist, essayist
  • 1940 – Judy Cornwell, English actress
  • 1940 – Chet Walker, American basketball player (d. 2024)
  • 1941 – Hipólito Mejía, Dominican politician, 52nd President of the Dominican Republic
  • 1942 – Christine Keeler, English model and dancer (d. 2017)
  • 1943 – Terry Eagleton, English philosopher and critic
  • 1943 – Horst Köhler, Polish-German economist and politician, 9th President of Germany (d. 2025){{Cite news |date=February 1, 2025 |title=Former German President Horst Köhler dies at 81 |url=https://www.npr.org/2025/02/01/g-s1-45951/former-german-president-horst-kohler-dies-at-81 |access-date=February 2, 2025 |work=NPR |language=en}}
  • 1943 – Dick Van Arsdale, American basketball player (d. 2024){{Cite news |last=Araton |first=Harvey |date=December 16, 2024 |title=Dick Van Arsdale, 81, One of First Identical Twins in the N.B.A., Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/sports/basketball/dick-van-arsdale-dead.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241217005116/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/sports/basketball/dick-van-arsdale-dead.html |archive-date=December 17, 2024 |access-date=December 18, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en}}
  • 1943 – Tom Van Arsdale, American basketball player
  • 1943 – Otoya Yamaguchi, Japanese assassin of Inejiro Asanuma (d. 1960)
  • 1944 – Jonathan Demme, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2017)
  • 1944 – Mick Green, English guitarist (d. 2010)
  • 1944 – Robert Kardashian, American lawyer and businessman (d. 2003)
  • 1944 – Christopher Meyer, English diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States (d. 2022)
  • 1944 – Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player and painter{{cite web |url=https://www.atptour.com/en/players/tom-okker/o032/overview |title=Tom Okker |website=atptour.com |publisher=Association of Tennis Professionals}}
  • 1945 – Oliver, American pop singer (d. 2000)
  • 1946 – Kresten Bjerre, Danish footballer and manager (d. 2014)
  • 1947 – Pirjo Honkasalo, Finnish director, cinematographer, and screenwriter
  • 1947 – Harvey Mason, American drummer
  • 1947 – John Radford, English footballer and manager
  • 1947 – Frank Van Dun, Belgian philosopher and theorist
  • 1948 – John Ashton, American actor (d. 2024)
  • 1948 – Dennis Awtrey, American basketball player{{cite web |title=Dennis Awtrey |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/76078/career |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=21 February 2024 |archive-date=21 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221064737/https://www.nba.com/stats/player/76078/career |url-status=live }}
  • 1949 – John Duncan, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2022){{Hugman|5545|John Duncan|access-date=17 February 2020}}
  • 1949 – Niki Lauda, Austrian racing driver (d. 2019){{cite web|url=https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.quite-simply-irreplaceable-f1-pays-tribute-to-niki-lauda.3WloAKN82RwgnVQ7y9rzpd.html|title='Quite simply irreplaceable' – F1 pays tribute to Niki Lauda|publisher=Formula One web site|access-date=May 23, 2018|archive-date=May 31, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531202429/https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.quite-simply-irreplaceable-f1-pays-tribute-to-niki-lauda.3WloAKN82RwgnVQ7y9rzpd.html|url-status=live}}
  • 1949 – Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player and coach
  • 1950 – Julius Erving, American basketball player and sportscaster{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6yuwT54mA0C&q=%22julius+erving%22+born+%22east+meadow%22&pg=PA273 |title=The Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939 |first1=Robert L. Jr. |last1=Harris |first2=Rosalyn |last2=Terborg-Penn |author-link2=Rosalyn Terborg-Penn |date=September 5, 2008 |publisher=Columbia University Press |access-date=March 22, 2011 |isbn=9780231138116 |archive-date=February 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214191120/https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6yuwT54mA0C&q=%22julius+erving%22+born+%22east+meadow%22&pg=PA273 |url-status=live }}
  • 1950 – Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer-songwriter
  • 1950 – Miou-Miou, French actress
  • 1950 – Genesis P-Orridge, English singer-songwriter (d. 2020){{cite news |last1=Leland |first1=John |title=Genesis P-Orridge Has Always Been a Provocateur of the Body. Now She's at Its Mercy. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/arts/music/genesis-p-orridge-throbbing-gristle.html |access-date=15 March 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=9 November 2018 |archive-date=15 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200315053734/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/arts/music/genesis-p-orridge-throbbing-gristle.html |url-status=live }}
  • 1950 – Julie Walters, English actress and author{{cite web |title=Julie Walters Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/facts/Julie-Walters |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=7 October 2020 |language=en |archive-date=21 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021111755/https://www.britannica.com/facts/Julie-Walters |url-status=live }}
  • 1951 – Ellen Greene, American singer and actress
  • 1952 – Bill Frist, American physician and politician{{cite book|author=John T. Grupenhoff|title=National Health Directory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ohNrAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA8|year=1996|publisher=Science and Health Publications|isbn=978-0-8342-0800-1|pages=8|access-date=2021-02-22|archive-date=2022-02-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143304/https://books.google.com/books?id=ohNrAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA8|url-status=live}}
  • 1952 – Joaquim Pina Moura, Portuguese Minister of Economy and Treasury and MP (d. 2020){{Cite news|last=Moura|first=Joaquim|url=https://jornaleconomico.sapo.pt/en/news/died-joaquim-pina-moura-550377|title=Former Minister Joaquim Pina Moura Died|date=20 February 2020|work=Jornal Economico|access-date=5 March 2020|archive-date=31 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731042408/https://jornaleconomico.sapo.pt/en/news/died-joaquim-pina-moura-550377|url-status=live}}
  • 1952 – Saufatu Sopoanga, Tuvaluan politician, 8th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (d. 2020){{cite book|last1=East|first1=Roger|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mz-fXRsedPMC&pg=PA537|title=Profiles of people in power: the world's government leaders|last2=Thomas|first2=Richard|date=5 August 2003|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-1-85743-126-1|pages=535–537|access-date=3 March 2011}}
  • 1953 – Nigel Planer, English actor and screenwriter
  • 1955 – David Axelrod, American journalist and political adviser
  • 1955 – Tim Young, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1957 – Willie Smits, Dutch microbiologist and engineer
  • 1958 – Dave Spitz, American bass player and songwriter
  • 1959 – Jiří Čunek, Czech politician
  • 1959 – Kyle MacLachlan, American actor{{cite web |last1=Rose |first1=Mike |title=Today's famous birthdays list for February 22, 2023 includes celebrities Drew Barrymore, James Blunt |url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2023/02/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-february-22-2023-includes-celebrities-drew-barrymore-james-blunt.html |website=The Plain Dealer |agency=Associated Press |access-date=21 February 2024 |date=22 February 2023 |archive-date=21 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221064736/https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2023/02/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-february-22-2023-includes-celebrities-drew-barrymore-james-blunt.html |url-status=live }}
  • 1959 – Bronwyn Oliver, Australian sculptor (d. 2006)
  • 1959 – Harry Leary, American BMX racer (d. 2024){{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/harry-leary-1959-2024-hall-of-fame-bmx-racer/|title=Harry Leary (1959–2024), Hall of Fame BMX racer|work=Legacy.com|first=Eric|last=San Juan|date=16 September 2024|access-date=16 September 2024}}
  • 1960 – Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde, Scottish politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
  • 1961 – Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist, songwriter, and producer
  • 1962 – Steve Irwin, Australian zoologist and television host (d. 2006)
  • 1963 – Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Transport{{cite news |url=http://politics.guardian.co.uk/publicservices/story/0,11032,1602671,00.html |title=The Guardian profile: Andrew Adonis |date=28 October 2005 |access-date=30 March 2007 |author=Will Woodward |work=The Guardian |location=London |archive-date=13 January 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060113082023/http://politics.guardian.co.uk/publicservices/story/0,11032,1602671,00.html |url-status=live }}
  • 1963 – Devon Malcolm, Jamaican-English cricketer
  • 1963 – Vijay Singh, Fijian-American golfer
  • 1964 – Diane Charlemagne, English singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
  • 1964 – Andy Gray, English footballer and manager{{cite web|url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=3037|title=Andy Gray|website=soccerbase.com|access-date=17 February 2020|archive-date=31 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731134707/https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=3037|url-status=live}}
  • 1965 – Chris Dudley, American basketball player{{cite web |title=Chris Dudley |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/201/career |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=21 February 2024}}
  • 1965 – Kieren Fallon, Irish jockey
  • 1965 – Pat LaFontaine, American ice hockey player{{cite web |title=Pat LaFontaine |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/pat-lafontaine-8448626 |publisher=National Hockey League |access-date=21 February 2024 |archive-date=21 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221064736/https://www.nhl.com/player/pat-lafontaine-8448626 |url-status=live }}
  • 1966 – Rachel Dratch, American actress and comedian{{cite web |title=Rachel Dratch |url=https://www.playbill.com/person/rachel-dratch-vault-0000068921 |publisher=Playbill |access-date=9 February 2023 |archive-date=9 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209212741/https://www.playbill.com/person/rachel-dratch-vault-0000068921 |url-status=live }}
  • 1967 – Paul Lieberstein, American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer
  • 1967 – Psicosis II, Mexican wrestler
  • 1968 – Shawn Graham, Canadian politician, 31st Premier of New Brunswick
  • 1968 – Jeri Ryan, American model and actress
  • 1968 – Kazuhiro Sasaki, Japanese baseball player{{cite web |title=Kazuhiro Sasaki |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/kazuhiro-sasaki-277408 |publisher=Major League Baseball |access-date=21 February 2024 |archive-date=21 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221064738/https://www.mlb.com/player/kazuhiro-sasaki-277408 |url-status=live }}
  • 1968 – Jayson Williams, American basketball player and sportscaster
  • 1969 – Thomas Jane, American actor{{cite web |last1=Nepales |first1=Ruben V. |title=Thomas Jane still shoeless after all these years |url=https://entertainment.inquirer.net/190441/thomas-jane-still-shoeless-after-all-these-years |work=Philippine Daily Inquirer |access-date=9 February 2023 |date=19 February 2016 |archive-date=9 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209205738/https://entertainment.inquirer.net/190441/thomas-jane-still-shoeless-after-all-these-years |url-status=live }}
  • 1969 – Brian Laudrup, Danish footballer and sportscaster{{Cite web|url=https://www.dbu.dk/landshold/landsholdsdatabasen/PlayerInfo/1235|title=Landsholdsdatabasen|website=DBU|access-date=2021-02-23|archive-date=2021-01-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118134404/https://www.dbu.dk/landshold/landsholdsdatabasen/playerInfo/1235|url-status=live}}
  • 1969 – Marc Wilmots, Belgian footballer and manager{{cite book|title=2002 World Cup Football Super Stars|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gsEB6NglljsC&pg=PA8|publisher=Sura Books|isbn=978-81-7478-303-5|pages=8|access-date=2021-02-22|archive-date=2022-02-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223143306/https://books.google.com/books?id=gsEB6NglljsC&pg=PA8|url-status=live}}
  • 1971 – Lea Salonga, Filipino actress and singer{{cite book | title = Sulong Pilipina! Sulong Pilipinas! : a compilation of Filipino women centennial awardees | publisher = National Centennial Commission, Women Sector | location = Manila, Philippines | year = 1999 | isbn = 9789719127659 | page=197}}
  • 1972 – Michael Chang, American tennis player and coach
  • 1972 – Claudia Pechstein, German speed skater{{cite web |title=Claudia Pechstein |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Claudia-Pechstein |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=7 October 2020 |language=en |archive-date=19 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019183653/https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/861699/Claudia-Pechstein |url-status=live }}
  • 1972 – Haim Revivo, Israeli footballer{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=dAq4TGQsWwwC&dq=Haim+Revivo+1972&pg=PA53| title = Day by Day in Jewish Sports History| year = 2008| publisher = KTAV Publishing House| isbn = 9780881259698| access-date = 2023-03-19| archive-date = 2023-11-11| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20231111152423/https://books.google.com/books?id=dAq4TGQsWwwC&dq=Haim+Revivo+1972&pg=PA53| url-status = live}}
  • 1972 – Ben Sasse, American politician and college administratorMcNamee, Gregory Lewis. "Ben Sasse". Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Feb. 2022, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ben-Sasse {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221008125818/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ben-Sasse |date=2022-10-08 }}. Accessed 22 November 2022.
  • 1973 – Philippe Gaumont, French cyclist (d. 2013)
  • 1973 – Juninho Paulista, Brazilian footballer
  • 1973 – Scott Phillips, American musician and songwriter
  • 1974 – James Blunt, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1974 – Chris Moyles, English radio and television host
  • 1975 – Drew Barrymore, American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter{{cite web |title=Drew Barrymore |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Drew-Barrymore |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=7 October 2020 |language=en |archive-date=11 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011195921/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Drew-Barrymore |url-status=live }}
  • 1977 – Hakan Yakin, Swiss footballer
  • 1979 – Brett Emerton, Australian footballer{{FIFA|178306}}
  • 1979 – Lee Na-young, South Korean actress
  • 1980 – Jeanette Biedermann, German singer-songwriter and actress
  • 1983 – Brian Duensing, American baseball player{{cite web |title=Brian Duensing |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/brian-duensing-488846 |publisher=Major League Baseball |access-date=21 February 2024 |archive-date=11 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231111153852/https://www.mlb.com/player/brian-duensing-488846 |url-status=live }}
  • 1983 – Clint McKay, Australian cricketerhttp://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/6903.html ESPNcricinfo
  • 1983 – Shaun Tait, Australian cricketer
  • 1984 – Tommy Bowe, Irish rugby player{{Cite web |url=http://www.ulsterrugby.com/rugby/ulster_first_team.php?player=4922&includeref=dynamic |title=Ulster Profile |access-date=18 October 2021 |archive-date=17 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717152551/http://www.ulsterrugby.com/rugby/ulster_first_team.php?player=4922&includeref=dynamic |url-status=dead }}
  • 1984 – Branislav Ivanović, Serbian footballer
  • 1985 – Hamer Bouazza, Algerian footballer{{cite web|url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=37869|title=Hameur Bouazza|website=soccerbase.com|access-date=17 February 2020|archive-date=15 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190915170632/https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=37869|url-status=live}}
  • 1985 – Georgios Printezis, Greek basketball player{{cite web|url=https://basketball.eurobasket.com/player/Georgios-Printezis/Greece/Olympiacos-SFP-Pireus/32915|title=Georgios Printezis|website=basketball.eurobasket.com|access-date=19 December 2021|archive-date=21 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021064341/https://basketball.eurobasket.com/player/Georgios-Printezis/Greece/Olympiacos-SFP-Pireus/32915|url-status=live}}
  • 1985 – Zach Roerig, American actor
  • 1986 – Rajon Rondo, American basketball player{{basketballstats |nba=200765}}
  • 1987 – Han Hyo-joo, South Korean actress and model
  • 1987 – Sergio Romero, Argentine footballer{{cite web |title=Sergio Romero Stats, News, Bio |url=https://www.espn.co.uk/football/player/_/id/125298/sergio-romero |publisher=ESPN |access-date=7 October 2020 |language=en |archive-date=9 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009094725/https://www.espn.co.uk/football/player/_/id/125298/sergio-romero |url-status=live }}
  • 1988 – Jonathan Borlée, Belgian sprinter{{cite web |title=European Athletics – Athlete: Jonathan Borlée |url=https://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=b/athlete=139115-borlee-jonathan/index.html |website=european-athletics |access-date=7 October 2020 |language=en |archive-date=9 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009070047/https://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=b/athlete=139115-borlee-jonathan/index.html |url-status=live }}
  • 1989 – Franco Vázquez, Argentine footballer{{cite web |title=Franco Vázquez Stats, News, Bio |url=https://www.espn.co.uk/football/player/_/id/118787/franco-vazquez |publisher=ESPN |access-date=7 October 2020 |language=en |archive-date=30 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130235555/https://www.espn.co.uk/football/player/_/id/118787/franco-vazquez |url-status=live }}
  • 1991 – Khalil Mack, American football player{{cite web |title=Khalil Mack |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/16710/khalil-mack |publisher=ESPN |access-date=9 February 2023 |archive-date=16 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230216145711/https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/16710/khalil-mack |url-status=live }}
  • 1992 – Dixon Machado, Venezuelan baseball player{{cite web |title=Dixon Machado |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/dixon-machado-553988 |publisher=Major League Baseball |access-date=21 February 2024}}
  • 1994 – Nam Joo-hyuk, South Korean model and actor{{cite web|title=남주혁|url=https://search.naver.com/search.naver?query=남주혁|website=Naver|access-date=February 22, 2022|language=ko|archive-date=February 22, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220222212910/https://search.naver.com/search.naver?query=%EB%82%A8%EC%A3%BC%ED%98%81|url-status=live}}
  • 1994 – Elfrid Payton, American basketball player{{cite web |title=Elfrid Payton |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/203901/career |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=21 February 2024}}
  • 1995 – Devonte' Graham, American basketball player{{cite web |title=Devonte' Graham |url=https://www.nba.com/player/1628984/devonte-graham |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=21 February 2024 |archive-date=21 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221064736/https://www.nba.com/player/1628984/devonte-graham |url-status=live }}
  • 1996 – Kia Nurse, Canadian basketball player{{cite web |title=Kia Nurse |url=https://www.wnba.com/player/1628915 |publisher=WNBA |access-date=21 February 2024 |archive-date=21 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221064736/https://www.wnba.com/player/1628915 |url-status=live }}
  • 1997 – Jerome Robinson, American basketball player{{cite web |title=Jerome Robinson |url=https://www.nba.com/player/1629010/jerome-robinson |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=21 February 2024 |archive-date=21 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221064737/https://www.nba.com/player/1629010/jerome-robinson |url-status=live }}
  • 1997 – Ilya Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player{{cite web |title=Ilya Samsonov |url=https://www.nhl.com/mapleleafs/player/ilya-samsonov-8478492 |publisher=National Hockey League |access-date=21 February 2024 |archive-date=21 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221064736/https://www.nhl.com/mapleleafs/player/ilya-samsonov-8478492 |url-status=live }}
  • 1999 – Harry Brook, English cricketer{{Cite web|title=Harry Brook profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/harry-brook-911707|access-date=2022-02-10|website=ESPNcricinfo|language=en}}

Deaths

=Pre-1600=

  • 556 – Maximianus, Bishop of Ravenna (b. 499)
  • 606 – Sabinian, Pope of the Catholic Church
  • 793 – Sicga, Anglo-Saxon nobleman and regicide
  • 845 – Wang, Chinese Empress dowager
  • 954 – Guo Wei, Chinese Emperor (b. 904)
  • 965 – Otto, Duke of Burgundy (b. 944)
  • 970 – García I, King of Pamplona
  • 978 – Lambert, Count of Chalon (b. 930)
  • 1071 – Arnulf III, Count of Flanders
  • 1072 – Peter Damian, Italian cardinal
  • 1079 – John of Fécamp, Italian Benedictine abbot
  • 1111 – Roger Borsa, King of Sicily (b. 1078){{cite book |last1=Curtis |first1=Edmund |editor1-last=Davis |editor1-first=Henry W. C. |title=Roger of Sicily and the Normans in Lower Italy, 1016-1154 |date=1912 |publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons |location=New York |pages=108–109}}
  • 1297 – Margaret of Cortona, Italian penitent (b. 1247)
  • 1371 – David II, King of Scotland (b. 1324)
  • 1452 – William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas (b. 1425)
  • 1500 – Gerhard VI, German nobleman (b. 1430)
  • 1511 – Henry, Duke of Cornwall (b. 1511)
  • 1512 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian cartographer and explorer (b. 1454){{cite book |last1=Wonning |first1=Paul R. |title=Colonial American History Stories – 1215 – 1664: Forgotten and Famous Historical Events |publisher=Mossy Feet Books |isbn=978-1-370-19406-3 |page=43 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mNooDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT43 |language=en}}

=1601–1900=

=1901–present=

  • 1903 – Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
  • 1904 – Leslie Stephen, English historian, author, and critic (b. 1832)
  • 1913 – Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist and author (b. 1857)
  • 1913 – Francisco I. Madero, Mexican president and author (b. 1873)
  • 1923 – Théophile Delcassé, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1852)
  • 1939 – Antonio Machado, Spanish-French poet and author (b. 1875)
  • 1942 – Stefan Zweig, Austrian journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1881)
  • 1943 – Christoph Probst, German activist (b. 1919)
  • 1943 – Hans Scholl, German activist (b. 1918)
  • 1943 – Sophie Scholl, German activist (b. 1921)
  • 1944 – Kasturba Gandhi, Indian activist (b. 1869)
  • 1944 – Fritz Schmenkel, anti-Nazi German who joined Soviet partisans (b. 1916){{cite web|last1=Ufarkin|first1=N.V.|title=Schmenkel, Paul Fritz|url=http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=1815|website=Geroi strany|accessdate=27 September 2016|archive-date=30 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150330002910/http://warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=1815|url-status=live}}{{cite web|last1=Wild|first1=Manfred|title=Fritz Schmenkel ist unvergessen|url=http://www.rotfuchs.net/rotfuchs-lesen/fritz-schmenkel-ist-unvergessen.html|website=RotFuchs|accessdate=27 September 2016|archive-date=30 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220630080713/http://www.rotfuchs.net/rotfuchs-lesen/fritz-schmenkel-ist-unvergessen.html|url-status=live}}
  • 1945 – Osip Brik, Russian avant garde writer and literary critic (b. 1888)
  • 1958 – Abul Kalam Azad, Indian scholar and politician, Indian Minister of Education (b. 1888)
  • 1960 – Paul-Émile Borduas, Canadian-French painter and critic (b. 1905)
  • 1961 – Nick LaRocca, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1889)
  • 1965 – Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (b. 1882)
  • 1971 – Frédéric Mariotti, French actor (b. 1883)
  • 1973 – Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
  • 1973 – Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish author (b. 1899)
  • 1973 – Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (b. 1900)
  • 1973 – Winthrop Rockefeller, American colonel and politician, 37th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1912)
  • 1976 – Angela Baddeley, English actress (b. 1904)
  • 1976 – Florence Ballard, American singer (b. 1943)
  • 1980 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter, poet and playwright (b. 1886)
  • 1982 – Josh Malihabadi, Indian-Pakistani poet and author (b. 1898)
  • 1983 – Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)
  • 1983 – Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (b. 1913)
  • 1985 – Salvador Espriu, Spanish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1913)
  • 1985 – Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1889)
  • 1986 – John Donnelly, Australian rugby league player (b. 1955)
  • 1987 – David Susskind, American talk show host and producer (b. 1920)
  • 1987 – Andy Warhol, American painter and photographer (b. 1928)
  • 1992 – Markos Vafiadis, Greek general and politician (b. 1906)
  • 1994 – Papa John Creach, American violinist (b. 1917)
  • 1995 – Ed Flanders, American actor (b. 1934)
  • 1997 – Joseph Aiuppa, American gangster (b. 1907)
  • 1998 – Abraham A. Ribicoff, American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (b. 1910)
  • 1999 – William Bronk, American poet and academic (b. 1918)
  • 1999 – Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
  • 2002 – Chuck Jones, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1912)
  • 2002 – Jonas Savimbi, Angolan general, founded UNITA (b. 1934)
  • 2004 – Andy Seminick, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1920)
  • 2005 – Lee Eun-ju, South Korean actress and singer (b. 1980)
  • 2005 – Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
  • 2006 – S. Rajaratnam, Singaporean politician, 1st Senior Minister of Singapore (b. 1915){{Cite web|url=https://www.roots.sg/learn/stories/sinnathamby-rajaratnam/story|title=Sinnathamby Rajaratnam – Roots.sg|website=Roots.sg|access-date=27 July 2020|archive-date=26 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726101737/https://www.roots.sg/learn/stories/sinnathamby-rajaratnam/story|url-status=dead}}
  • 2007 – George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, English politician, Leader of the House of Lords (b. 1918)
  • 2007 – Dennis Johnson, American basketball player and coach (b. 1954)
  • 2012 – Sukhbir, Indian author and poet (b. 1925)
  • 2012 – Frank Carson, Irish-English comedian and actor (b. 1926)
  • 2012 – Marie Colvin, American journalist (b. 1956)
  • 2012 – Rémi Ochlik, French photographer and journalist (b. 1983)
  • 2013 – Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Dutch speed skater (b. 1938)
  • 2013 – Jean-Louis Michon, French-Swiss scholar and translator (b. 1924)
  • 2013 – Wolfgang Sawallisch, German pianist and conductor (b. 1923)
  • 2014 – Charlotte Dawson, New Zealand–Australian television host (b. 1966)
  • 2014 – Trebor Jay Tichenor, American pianist and composer (b. 1940)
  • 2014 – Leo Vroman, Dutch-American hematologist, poet, and illustrator (b. 1915)
  • 2015 – Chris Rainbow, Scottish singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1946)
  • 2019 – Brody Stevens, American comedian and actor (b. 1970){{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/brody-stevens-dead-comedian-was-48-1189224|title=Comedian Brody Stevens Dies at 48|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=22 February 2019|access-date=9 March 2019|archive-date=27 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190227142918/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/brody-stevens-dead-comedian-was-48-1189224|url-status=live}}
  • 2019 – Morgan Woodward, American actor (b. 1925){{Cite web|url=https://www.star-telegram.com/entertainment/article226683744.html|title=Native Arlington actor known for 'Cool Hand Luke' and 'Star Trek' roles dies|website=star-telegram|access-date=2019-03-09|archive-date=2019-03-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327090544/https://www.star-telegram.com/entertainment/article226683744.html|url-status=live}}
  • 2021 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet, painter (b. 1919){{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/notable-deaths-in-2021-idUSRTR4Z4Y0|title=Notable deaths in 2021|agency=Reuters|date=2021-02-24|access-date=2021-03-17|archive-date=2021-03-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326074147/https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/notable-deaths-in-2021-idUSRTR4Z4Y0|url-status=live}}
  • 2024 – John Lowe, English musician, pianist for The Quarrymen (b. 1942){{cite news|url=https://bestclassicbands.com/john-duff-lowe-obituary-quarrymen-mccartney-lennon-harrison-2-22-24/|title=John 'Duff' Lowe, Bandmate of McCartney, Lennon and Harrison in The Quarrymen, Dies|website=Bestclassicbands|access-date=2024-02-23|archive-date=2024-02-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223065046/https://bestclassicbands.com/john-duff-lowe-obituary-quarrymen-mccartney-lennon-harrison-2-22-24/|url-status=live}}

Holidays and observances

References

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