#jubilee year

A bit of February 22nd history…

1300 - Pope Boniface VIII issues papal bull (decree) instating a Jubilee Year, granting forgiveness of sins and debts for those who fulfill various conditions

1909 - Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia

1997 - Dolly the Sheep, world’s 1st cloned mammal is announced

2018 - Neanderthals, not humans, were the 1st artists on Earth, producing red cave paintings 65,000 years ago in Spain (pictured)

2021 - US death toll from COVID-19 passes 500,000, higher than US deaths in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War combined