About February 22
February 22, 2025 is the 53rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 312 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 360 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 22
- 1744 –War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
- 1847 –Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans.
- 1856 –The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 1862 –Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
- 1882 –The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
- 1889 –President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
- 1942 –World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
- 1943 –World War II: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
- 1948 –Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
- 1958 –Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
- 1959 –Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
- 1972 –The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
- 1973 –Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon’s visit to the People’s Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
- 1974 –Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
- 1974 –The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
- 1980 –Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3.
- 1983 –The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
- 1994 –Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
- 2002 –Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
- 2011 –An earthquake measuring 6.3 in magnitude strikes Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 181 people.
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