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

  • 1632 –
    Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
  • 1744 –
    War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
  • 1819 –
    By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1942 –
    World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
  • 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.
  • 1983 –
    The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
  • 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.
  • 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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