What are the important events that happened on February 22? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
February 22: Facts & Myths About This Day
February 22 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 9, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,003,040 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘pentacontatrigon’ day.
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Pisces is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,446 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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February 22 Historical Events
- 1744 –War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
- 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.
- 1889 –President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
- 1948 –Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
- 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.
Who were born on February 22?
- 1899 –Dwight Frye, American actor (d. 1943)
- 1918 –Don Pardo, American announcer
- 1950 –Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer
- 1962 –Lenda Murray, American bodybuilder
- 1966 –Brian Greig, Australian politician
- 1979 –Brett Emerton, Australian footballer
- 1984 –Tommy Bowe, Irish rugby player
- 1985 –Sean Garballey, American politician
- 1988 –Kévin Borlée, Belgian athlete
- 1989 –Anna Sundstrand, Swedish singer (Play)
Who died on February 22?
- 965 –Otto, Duke of Burgundy (b. 944)
- 1111 –Roger Borsa, King of Sicily
- 1511 –Henry, Duke of Cornwall, son of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon
- 1627 –Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (b. 1558)
- 1727 –Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer (b. 1661)
- 1904 –Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (b. 1832)
- 1974 –Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1930)
- 1985 –Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (b. 1889)
- 1994 –Papa John Creach, American musician (b. 1917)
- 1998 –Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)
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