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, 1,708,560,000 seconds 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.
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
- 1744 –War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
- 1972 –The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
- 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.
- 1986 –Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
- 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.
Who were born on February 22?
- 1612 –George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (d. 1677)
- 1839 –Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)
- 1857 –Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894)
- 1902 –Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (d. 1980)
- 1907 –Sheldon Leonard, American actor (d. 1997)
- 1944 –Robert Kardashian, American lawyer (d. 2003)
- 1959 –Jiří Čunek, Czech politician
- 1968 –Jeri Ryan, American actress
- 1975 –Drew Barrymore, American actress
- 1985 –Larissa Riquelme, Paraguayan model
Who died on February 22?
- 1371 –King David II of Scotland (b. 1324)
- 1627 –Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (b. 1558)
- 1816 –Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1723)
- 1943 –Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1921)
- 1974 –Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1930)
- 1985 –Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (b. 1889)
- 1989 –Moisés da Costa Amaral, East Timorese leader, UDT President in the exterior (b. 1938)
- 1998 –Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)
- 1999 –Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
- 2004 –Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
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