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

  • 1495 –
    King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city’s throne.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1957 –
    Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.
  • 1958 –
    Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
  • 1959 –
    Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1997 –
    In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.

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