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February 20, 2022 - February 26, 2022 - Graphics show birthdays and anniversaries for each day of the week. This week features the astronaut John Glenn, U.S. President Richard Nixon, Dolly the sheep, lockdown in Italy due to coronavirus, the Israel shekel, Park Geun-hye of South Korea and the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
February 20, 1962: John Glenn became the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth when the Mercury capsule Friendship VII carried him into space for a five-hour flight
February 21, 1972: Richard Nixon became the first U.S. President to visit China, a key step in normalising relations and ending 25 years of separation between the two countries
February 22, 1997: Scientists in Scotland reported successfully creating the first clone of an adult mammal, a sheep called Dolly, using the technique of somatic cell nuclear transfer
February 23, 2020: Italy, with one of the highest coronavirus rates outside China, placed almost 50,000 people in strict lockdown, with fines imposed for breaking regulations
February 24, 1980: The shekel replaced the pound as the currency of Israel
February 25, 2013: Park Geun-hye was inaugurated as the first female president of South Korea
February 26, 2012: An unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, was shot dead in Florida. The acquittal of his white killer led to the birth of the #BlackLivesMatter movement