About February 22
February 22, 2020 is the 53rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 313 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 356 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.
- 1744 –War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
- 1797 –The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
- 1819 –By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
- 1872 –The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1959 –Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
- 1974 –Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
- 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.
- 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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