WHAT HAPPENED ON 22. FEBRUARY
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The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world. (22. February 1909)

World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare. (22. February 1915)

After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia. (22. February 1921)

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House. (22. February 1924)

World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable. (22. February 1942)

World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany. (22. February 1943)

World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone. (22. February 1944)

Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia. (22. February 1948)

Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot. (22. February 1957)

Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic. (22. February 1958)

Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500. (22. February 1959)

The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others. (22. February 1972)

Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices. (22. February 1973)

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. (22. February 1974)

Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon. (22. February 1974)

Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom. (22. February 1979)

Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3. (22. February 1980)

The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. (22. February 1983)

Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines. (22. February 1986)

Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union. (22. February 1994)