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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1909 –
    The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
  • 1942 –
    World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
  • 1948 –
    Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
  • 1957 –
    Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.
  • 1973 –
    Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon’s visit to the People’s Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
  • 1974 –
    Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
  • 1980 –
    Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3.
  • 1986 –
    Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
  • 2002 –
    Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
  • 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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