Historical Events
Events 101 - 118 of 118
- Feb 22 Snowboard Olympic parallel special slalom event debuts and is run for the only time at the Sochi Winter Games; Russian Vic Wild and Julia Dujmovits of Canada win unique gold medals
Yanukovych Ousted
Feb 22 Viktor Yanukovych is ousted as President of Ukraine by the parliament following the Euromaidan revolution
- Feb 23 56th Daytona 500: Dale Earnhardt Jr. breaks a 55-race winless streak to win his 2nd Great American Race
- Feb 23 A pro-Euromaidan rally is held in Simferopol, Ukraine, while in Kerch, protesters attempt to replace the Ukrainian flag from city hall with a Russian flag
Olympic Gold
Feb 23 Canada wins the Olympic ice hockey double with a 3-0 victory over Sweden in the men's gold medal game in Sochi; first team to finish the tournament undefeated since 1984
- Feb 23 Russia sweeps the medals in the men's 50k cross country skiing at the Sochi Winter Olympics; Alexander Legkov wins gold ahead of teammates Maxim Vylegzhanin and Ilia Chernousov
- Feb 23 XXII Winter Olympic Games close in Sochi, Russia
- Feb 24 7 people are killed & 37 are injured after a bridge collapses in Vietnam
- Feb 24 A 4.4 billion-year-old Crystal is discovered to be the oldest known fragment from the earth's crust
Event of Interest
Feb 24 Pope Francis creates a second Secretariat with the power to audit any Vatican agency at any time
- Feb 25 50 students are killed in a Boko Harem attack on a college in Buni, Nigeria
- Feb 25 Hundreds of pro-Russian protesters block the Crimean parliament and demand a referendum on Crimea's independence
Film & TV History
Feb 26 Seth Rogen testifies about Alzheimer's disease before the United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services
- Feb 27 Arseniy Yatsenyuk appointed Prime Minister of Ukraine
- Feb 27 Chaos erupts after the Swedish Public Employment Service mistakenly invites 61,000 people to a job interview in Stockholm
- Feb 27 Republic of Crimea announces a referendum and ousts its regional government
- Feb 27 Unmarked Russia special forces invade neighboring Crimea, Ukraine to assist pro-Russian nationalists, occupying government buildings in preparation for annexation
- Feb 27 US Republican Governor Jan Brewer vetoes a "religious freedom" bill that would have allowed businesses to turn away gay customers
