About February 22
February 22, 2024 is the 53rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 313 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 342 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 22
- 1371 –Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
- 1495 –King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city’s throne.
- 1632 –Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
- 1744 –War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
- 1797 –The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
- 1853 –Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1889 –President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
- 1904 –The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
- 1948 –Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
- 1958 –Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
- 1959 –Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
- 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.
- 1986 –Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
- 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.
- 2006 –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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