Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 22

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 * 1316 – The Catalan forces of Ferdinand of Majorca defeated troops loyal to Princess Matilda of Hainaut at the Battle of Picotin on the Peloponnese peninsula in modern-day Greece.
 * 1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: British ships began attacking the rear of a combined Franco-Spanish fleet in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Toulon, France.
 * 1909 – The sixteen United States Navy battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut (BB-18) (pictured), completed a circumnavigation of the globe.
 * 1980 – At the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United States ice hockey team defeated the Soviet team in an unlikely victory that became known as the Miracle on Ice.
 * 1983 – The play Moose Murders opened and closed on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, becoming the standard of "awfulness" against which all Broadway failures are judged.
 * 1997 – Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the existence of Dolly, a female sheep who was the first mammal to have successfully been cloned from an adult cell.
 * 2006 – Seven men staged the largest cash robbery in Britain at a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom.
 * 2011 – An earthquake registering 6.3 ML struck Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 185 people and causing around NZ$40 billion in damage.
 * 2011 – Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people marched in protest in Manama against the deaths of seven people killed by police and army forces during previous protests.
 * 2012 – A train failed to apply its brakes and crashed through a buffer stop at Once railway station in Buenos Aires, resulting in 51 deaths and more than 700 injuries.
 * Born/died: | García Sánchez I of Pamplona |d|970| Charles-Nicolas Cochin |b|1715| Alexis Bachelot |b|1796| Sarah Fuller Flower Adams |b|1805| August Bebel |b|1840| Anna Kingsford |d|1888| Elizabeth Sumner |d|1911| Ted Kennedy |b|1932| Saufatu Sopoanga |b|1952| Felix Frankfurter |d|1965| Drew Barrymore |b|1975| Adrian Boult |d|1983 | Chuck Jones |d|2002