Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 22

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February 22: Independence Day in Saint Lucia (1979), Feast of Cathedra Petri (Catholicism).

Dolly the sheep

  • 1819 - By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sold Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
  • 1876 - The Johns Hopkins University, named after philanthropist Johns Hopkins, was founded.
  • 1943 - Members of the White Rose Society were found guilty of treason and guillotined by the Nazi regime in Germany.
  • 1958 - President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and President Shukri al-Kuwatli of Syria signed the union pact to form the United Arab Republic.
  • 1997 - Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the birth of a cloned sheep named Dolly (pictured).

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