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

  • 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.
  • 1853 –
    Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • 1855 –
    The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania)
  • 1856 –
    The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • 1872 –
    The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
  • 1882 –
    The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1972 –
    The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
  • 1974 –
    Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
  • 1979 –
    Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
  • 1986 –
    Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
  • 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.
  • 2011 –
    An earthquake measuring 6.3 in magnitude strikes Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 181 people.

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