February 22, 2006 (15 years ago): At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

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February 21, 1965 (56 years ago): Malcolm X is assassinated while giving a talk at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.

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February 20, 1998 (23 years ago): American figure skater Tara Lipinski, at the age of 15, becomes the youngest Olympic figure skating gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

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February 17, 1913 (108 years ago): The Armory Show opens in New York City, displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.

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February 16, 1923 (98 years ago): Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
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When the world says,
Give up.
Hope whispers..
Try it one more time.

—King Tutankhamun

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