{"id":296409,"date":"2026-02-22T08:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T08:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/296409\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T08:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T08:53:09","slug":"on-this-day-feb-22-christchurch-new-zealand-earthquake-kills-185","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/296409\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Feb. 22: Christchurch, New Zealand, earthquake kills 185"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 of 6 | The Christchurch Catholic Cathedral is extensively damaged after an earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, on February 22, 2011. File Photo by David Wethey\/EPA<\/p>\n

Feb. 22 (UPI) — On this date in history:<\/p>\n

In 1819, a treaty with Spain ceded Florida to the United States.\n<\/p>\n

In 1855, Pennsylvania State University was founded in State College, Pa. It was originally called the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

In 1862, Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as president of the Confederate States of America.<\/p>\n

In 1879, Woolworth, the first chain store, opened in Utica, N.Y.<\/p>\n

In 1959, the Daytona 500 was run for the first time. Lee Petty won the race<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 1973, Israeli fighter planes shot down a Libyan commercial airliner, killing 108 of the 113 people aboard. The military apparently believed the airliner was a security threat in Israeli-controlled airspace. Israel’s defense minister later said there was an “error in judgment” by the military. Israel paid reparations to the families of the victims.<\/p>\n

In 1980, in one of the most dramatic upsets<\/a> in Olympics history, the underdog U.S. hockey team, made up of collegians and second-tier professional players, defeated the defending champion Soviet team, regarded as the world’s finest, 4-3, at the Winter Games in Lake Placid, N.Y.<\/p>\n

In 1987, artist Andy Warhol died of heart failure at age 58<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

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In 1998, a series of tornadoes<\/a> raked central Florida, killing 42 people and injuring more than 200 others.<\/p>\n

In 2005, a powerful earthquake<\/a> struck Iran, killing more than 500 people.<\/p>\n

In 2006, robbers took more than $43 million in cash<\/a> from the Securitas bank depot in Kent, England, Britain’s largest ever theft.<\/p>\n

In 2011, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake<\/a> severely damaged Christchurch, New Zealand’s second largest city, killing 185 people and injuring up to 2,000.<\/p>\n

In 2012, a commuter train plowed into a barrier at a Buenos Aires station, killing 49 people and injuring hundreds<\/a> more.<\/p>\n

In 2014, Ukraine’s Parliament ousted<\/a> President Viktor Yanukovych following a period of violence that killed scores of people.<\/p>\n

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In 2018, the U.S. women’s ice hockey team won<\/a> the Olympic gold medal for the first time in 20 years with a 4-3 victory over Canada in the Pyeongchang, South Korea, Games.\n<\/p>\n

In 2018, President Donald Trump signed a law making the Gateway Arch in St. Louis a national park.<\/p>\n

In 2022, all three white men convicted of murder in the death of Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia were again found guilty<\/a>, this time on federal hate crime charges.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFile Photo by Stephen B. Morton\/EPA-EFE\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 of 6 | The Christchurch Catholic Cathedral is extensively damaged after an earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,38],"class_list":{"0":"post-296409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}