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
- 1632 –Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
- 1853 –Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 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.
- 1879 –In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
- 1915 –World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
- 1924 –U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
- 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.
- 1957 –Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.
- 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 –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.
- 1983 –The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
- 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.
- 1995 –The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
- 1997 –In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
- 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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