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.
- 1632 –Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
- 1797 –The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
- 1847 –Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans.
- 1853 –Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1879 –In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
- 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.
- 1924 –U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
- 1943 –World War II: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
- 1948 –Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
- 1957 –Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1979 –Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
- 1986 –Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
- 1997 –In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
- 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.
- 2011 –An earthquake measuring 6.3 in magnitude strikes Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 181 people.
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