📜 This Day in History

February 22

• 1316The 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.
• 1909The sixteen United States Navy battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by Connecticut, completed a circumnavigation of the globe.
• 1980At 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.
• 1997Scientists 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.
• 2011An earthquake registering 6.3 ML struck Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 185 people and causing around NZ$40 billion in damage.
• 2019A group broke into the North Korean embassy in Madrid, Spain, and stole several mobile telephones and digital storage devices.

Born on this day

• 1732George Washington, American general and politician, 1st President of the United States (died 1799)
• 1788Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher and author (died 1860)
• 1857Heinrich Hertz, German physicist, philosopher, and academic (died 1894)
• 1857Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English general, co-founded The Scout Association (died 1941)