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
- 1371 –Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
- 1856 –The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 1942 –World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
- 1944 –World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
- 1958 –Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
- 1959 –Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
- 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.
- 1979 –Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
- 1986 –Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
- 2002 –Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
Who were born on February 22?
- 1796 –Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1874)
- 1882 –Eric Gill, British sculptor (d. 1940)
- 1887 –Ksawery Tartakower, Polish chess player (d. 1956)
- 1908 –Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan president (d. 1981)
- 1914 –Renato Dulbecco, Nobel laureate
- 1925 –Edward Gorey, American illustrator (d. 2000)
- 1928 –Clarence 13X, American religious leader (d. 1969)
- 1936 –J. Michael Bishop, American immunologist and microbiologist; Nobel laureate
- 1952 –Bill Frist, American politician
- 1973 –Juninho Paulista, Brazilian footballer
Who died on February 22?
- 1799 –Heshen, infamous Qing Dynasty Chinese official at court (b. 1750)
- 1875 –Sir Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist (b. 1797)
- 1890 –Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (b. 1834)
- 1904 –Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (b. 1832)
- 1944 –Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mohandas Gandhi (b. 1869)
- 1985 –Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (b. 1889)
- 1994 –Papa John Creach, American musician (b. 1917)
- 2001 –Les Medley, English footballer (b.1920)
- 2005 –Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
- 2007 –Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954)
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