Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on February 22 across the 1 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
was built 1960-1970 with Soviet engineering and significant $1 billion USD Soviet funding (after the US/UK withdrew funding offers in 1956, triggering the Suez Crisis when Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal to finance the dam).
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →