About February 22
February 22, 2024 is the 53rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 313 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 342 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.
- 1744 –War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
- 1847 –Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1958 –Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
- 1959 –Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
- 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 –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.
- 1983 –The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
- 1986 –Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
- 1995 –The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
- 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.
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