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 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 313 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 9, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,476,000 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 342 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 4,080 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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February 22 Historical Events
- 1371 –Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
- 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.
- 1889 –President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
- 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.
- 1957 –Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.
- 1958 –Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
- 1959 –Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
- 1979 –Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
Who were born on February 22?
- 1796 –Alexis Bachelot, French missionary (d. 1837)
- 1886 –Hugo Ball, German author and poet (d. 1927)
- 1899 –George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966)
- 1907 –Sheldon Leonard, American actor (d. 1997)
- 1923 –Bleddyn Williams, Welsh rugby player (d. 2009)
- 1928 –Axel Strøbye, Danish actor (d. 2005)
- 1944 –Robert Kardashian, American lawyer (d. 2003)
- 1972 –Michael Chang, American tennis player
- 1981 –Fredson Camara, Brazilian footballer
- 1984 –Jodie Rivera, YouTube celebrity
Who died on February 22?
- 1923 –Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (b. 1852)
- 1942 –Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (b. 1881)
- 1943 –Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1921)
- 1965 –Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1882)
- 1973 –Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Canadian politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
- 1976 –Angela Baddeley, English actress (b. 1904)
- 1994 –Papa John Creach, American musician (b. 1917)
- 1997 –Joseph Aiuppa, American gangster (b. 1907)
- 2005 –Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
- 2007 –Samuel Hinga Norman, Sierra Leonean alleged war criminal (b. 1940)
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