February 22: Independence Day in Saint Lucia (1979), Feast of Cathedra Petri (Catholicism).
- 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-Quwatli 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) seven months after the fact.
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