About February 22
February 22, 2021 is the 53rd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 312 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 344 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.
- 1632 –Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
- 1856 –The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1994 –Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
- 1995 –The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
- 1997 –In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
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