Events
February
22
1819
– By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain
sells Florida to the United States
for five million U.S. dollars.
1848 – The French Revolution of
1848, which would lead to the
establishment of the French Second
Republic, begins.
1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank
Woolworth opens the first of many
of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
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.
1948 – Communist revolution in
Czechoslovakia.
1958 – Egypt and Syria join to
form the United Arab Republic.
1979 – Independence of Saint Lucia
from the United Kingdom.
1986 – Start of the People Power
Revolution in the Philippines.
1997 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists
announce that an adult sheep named
Dolly has been successfully cloned.
2011 – An earthquake measuring
6.3 in magnitude strikes Christchurch,
New Zealand, killing 185 people.
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