Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1958 Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic under President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
PoliticsOn this day — February 22 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1958 
CC0, Wikimedia Commons 2002 Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, founder of UNITA, is killed in a military ambush, effectively ending the Angolan Civil War.
Death
CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1881 Cleopatra's Needle, a 3,500-year-old Ancient Egyptian obelisk, is erected in New York's Central Park.
Culture
Wikimedia Commons (Attribution) 1921 Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who became the 2nd President and later self-declared Emperor of the Central African Republic, is born.
Birth
CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1985 Hamer Bouazza, Algerian-French international footballer, is born.
Birth