Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 22

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.

Recent days: February 21 – February 20 – February 19

More anniversaries:

• January 31
• February 1
• February 2