Historical timeline for February 22

Twosday, the name given to Tuesday, February 22, 2022, at 2:22:22, occurs.

A man throws a grenade at the U.S. embassy in Podgorica, Montenegro. He dies at the scene from a second explosion, with no one else hurt.

A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people.

President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328–0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion.

A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.

Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests.

New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake, the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, kills 185 people.

At approximately 6:44 a.m. local Iraqi time, explosions occurred at the al-Askari Shrine in Samarra, Iraq. The attack on the shrine, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, caused the escalation of sectarian tensions in Iraq into a full-scale civil war.

The Securitas depot robbery was the UK's largest heist. Almost £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) was stolen from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

The 6.4 Mw Zarand earthquake shakes the Kerman province of Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 612 people dead and 1,411 injured.

Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.

In Roslin, Midlothian, British scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.

The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.

Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.

Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.

The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.

Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3.

Saint Lucia gains independence from the United Kingdom.

Samuel Byck attempts to hijack an aircraft at Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to assassinate Richard Nixon, but commits suicide after being wounded by police.

The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.