About February 22
February 22, 2023 is the 53rd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 312 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 353 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.
- 1632 –Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
- 1744 –War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
- 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)
- 1879 –In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
- 1882 –The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
- 1909 –The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
- 1915 –World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
- 1943 –World War II: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
- 1948 –Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
- 1958 –Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
- 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 –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.
- 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.
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