What happened on February 22? There are more than 332 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About February 22
February 22 is the 53rd day of the year 2024. There are 313 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday. This day falls under the 8th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Denver, Colorado 80210 sunrise occured at 06:41 AM and sunset occured at 05:44 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Pisces. The modern birthstone for this month is Amethyst while the mystical birthstone is Bloodstone.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 342 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For February 22
- 1371Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
- 1495King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city’s throne.
- 1632Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
- 1744War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
- 1797The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
- 1819By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
- 1847Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans.
- 1853Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1855The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania)
- 1856The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 1862Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
- 1872The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
- 1879In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
- 1882The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
- 1889President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
- 1904The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
- 1909The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
- 1915World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
- 1924U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
- 1942World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
- 1943World War II: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
- 1944World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
- 1948Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
- 1957Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.
- 1958Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
- 1959Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
- 1972The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
- 1973Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon’s visit to the People’s Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
- 1974Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
- 1974The 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.
- 1979Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
- 1980Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3.
- 1983The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
- 1986Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
- 1994Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
- 1995The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
- 1997In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
- 2002Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
- 2006At least six men stage Britain’s biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or 78€ million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
- 2011An earthquake measuring 6.3 in magnitude strikes Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 181 people.
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Who Were Born On February 22?
- 1040Rashi, French rabbi (d. 1105)
- 1403Charles VII of France (d. 1461)
- 1440Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (d. 1457)
- 1500Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (d. 1564)
- 1612George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (d. 1677)
- 1705Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (d. 1735)
- 1714Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (d. 1795)
- 1732George Washington, First President of the United States (d. 1799)
- 1756Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (d. 1821)
- 1778Rembrandt Peale, American artist (d. 1860)
- 1788Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (d. 1860)
- 1796Alexis Bachelot, French missionary (d. 1837)
- 1796Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1874)
- 1806Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875)
- 1817Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)
- 1819James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (d. 1891)
- 1824Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (d. 1907)
- 1825Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1898)
- 1839Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)
- 1840August Bebel, German politician (d. 1913)
- 1849Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician (d. 1915)
- 1857Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894)
- 1857Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, British soldier, author, and founder of the Scout movement (d. 1941)
- 1864Jules Renard, French author (d. 1910)
- 1874Bill Klem, American baseball umpire (d. 1951)
- 1878Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)
- 1879Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish physical chemist (d. 1947)
- 1880Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
- 1881Albin Prepeluh, Slovenian author and politician (d. 1937)
- 1881Joseph B. Ely, American politician (d. 1956)
- 1882Eric Gill, British sculptor (d. 1940)
- 1883Marguerite Clark, American actress (d. 1940)
- 1886Hugo Ball, German author and poet (d. 1927)
- 1887Ksawery Tartakower, Polish chess player (d. 1956)
- 1888Owen Brewster, American politician (d. 1961)
- 1889Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (d. 1977)
- 1890Beatriz Michelena, Latin-American silent movie star (d. 1942)
- 1891Vlas Chubar, Soviet politician (d. 1939)
- 1892Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (d. 1950)
- 1895Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician (d. 1979)
- 1897Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (d. 1947)
- 1898Thillaiaadi Valliammai, a Tamil satyagrahi from South Africa (d. 1914)
- 1899Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)
- 1899Dwight Frye, American actor (d. 1943)
- 1899George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966)
- 1900Luis Buñuel, Spanish-born film director (d. 1983)
- 1900Seán Ó Faoláin, Irish author (d. 1991)
- 1902Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (d. 1980)
- 1903Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
- 1903Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (d. 1990)
- 1903Robert Weede, American baritone (d. 1972)
- 1906Helge Kjærulff-Schmidt, Danish actor (d. 1982)
- 1906Humayun Kabir, Indian educationist and politician (d. 1969)
- 1907Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1907Sheldon Leonard, American actor (d. 1997)
- 1908Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan president (d. 1981)
- 1908Sir John Mills, English actor (d. 2005)
- 1911Bill Baker, American baseball player (d. 2006)
- 1913George Holmes “Buddy” Tate, American jazz musician (d. 2001)
- 1914Henry Reed, English poet (d. 1986)
- 1914Renato Dulbecco, Nobel laureate
- 1917Jane Bowles, American playwright (d. 1973)
- 1918Charlie Finley, American sports entrepreneur (d. 1996)
- 1918Don Pardo, American announcer
- 1918Robert Wadlow, World’s tallest ever human (d. 1940)
- 1918Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2000)
- 1921David Greene, British director (d. 2003)
- 1921Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (d. 1994)
- 1921Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Central African Republic leader (d. 1996)
- 1921Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
- 1922Apostolos Santas, Greek resistance veteran
- 1922Jesús Iglesias, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
- 1922Marshall Teague, American race car driver (d. 1959)
- 1923Bleddyn Williams, Welsh rugby player (d. 2009)
- 1923Norman Smith (record producer), English singer and record producer (d. 2008)
- 1925Edward Gorey, American illustrator (d. 2000)
- 1926Bud Yorkin, American film director
- 1926Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)
- 1927Florencio Campomanes, Filipino political scientist (d. 2010)
- 1928Axel Strøbye, Danish actor (d. 2005)
- 1928Bruce Forsyth, British entertainer
- 1928Clarence 13X, American religious leader (d. 1969)
- 1928Paul Dooley, American actor
- 1929Donald May, American actor
- 1929James Hong, American actor
- 1929Rebecca Schull, American actress
- 1930James McGarrell, American painter
- 1930Marni Nixon, American singer
- 1932Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy, American politician (d. 2009)
- 1933Bobby Smith, English footballer
- 1933Katharine, Duchess of Kent
- 1934Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager (d. 2010)
- 1935Sven Inge, Swedish artist (d. 2008)
- 1936Ádám Bodor, Hungarian writer from Transylvania
- 1936Ernie K-Doe, American singer (d. 2001)
- 1936J. Michael Bishop, American immunologist and microbiologist; Nobel laureate
- 1938Ishmael Reed, American writer
- 1938Pierre Vallières, Canadian politician (d. 1995)
- 1938Steve Barber, American baseball player (d. 2007)
- 1940Billy Name, American photographer
- 1940Chet Walker, American Basketball player
- 1940Johnson Mlambo, South African politician
- 1940Judy Cornwell, English actress
- 1941Giorgos Arvanitis, Greek cinematographer
- 1941Hipólito Mejía, Dominican politician
- 1942Christine Keeler, English model and showgirl
- 1943Horst Köhler, President of Germany
- 1943Terry Eagleton, British literary critic and philosopher
- 1944Jonathan Demme, American director
- 1944Robert Kardashian, American lawyer (d. 2003)
- 1944Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player
- 1945Leslie Charleson, American actress
- 1945Oliver, American singer (d. 2000)
- 1947Carol Burns, Australian actress
- 1947Frank P. Tomasulo, American film professor and critic
- 1947Harvey Mason, Jazz drummer
- 1947Maurizio De Angelis, Italian musician
- 1947Richard North Patterson, American author
- 1948Dennis Awtrey, American basketball player
- 1948John Ashton, American actor
- 1949Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver and entrepreneur
- 1949Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player
- 1950Ellen Greene, American actress
- 1950Genesis P-Orridge, English musician and performer
- 1950Julie Walters, English actress
- 1950Julius Erving, American basketball player
- 1950Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer
- 1950Miou-Miou, French actress
- 1952Bill Frist, American politician
- 1952Cyrinda Foxe, American model (d. 2002)
- 1953Graham Lewis, English musician (Wire)
- 1953Nigel Planer, British actor
- 1955David Axelrod, American political consultant
- 1955Gordon Banks, American guitarist
- 1955Tim Young, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1956Hugh Hewitt, American religious leader
- 1959Jiří Čunek, Czech politician
- 1959Kyle MacLachlan, American actor
- 1960Charles Cullen, American serial killer
- 1961Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist
- 1962Lenda Murray, American bodybuilder
- 1962Les Wallace, Scottish darts player
- 1962Steve Irwin, Australian herpetologist (d. 2006)
- 1963Devon Malcolm, English Cricketer
- 1963Donald Braswell II, American classical crossover singer
- 1963Vijay Singh, Fijian golfer
- 1964Ed Boon, American video game programmer
- 1964Gigi Fernandez, Puerto Rican tennis player
- 1965Chris Dudley, American basketball player
- 1965Dean Karr, American director and photographer
- 1965Pat LaFontaine, American ice hockey player
- 1966Aiden Shaw, English pornographic actor
- 1966Brian Greig, Australian politician
- 1966Rachel Dratch, American actress and comedienne
- 1966Thorsten Kaye, German actor
- 1967Alf Poier, Austrian comedian
- 1968Bradley Nowell, American musician (d. 1996)
- 1968Elna Reinach, South African tennis player
- 1968Jayson Williams, American basketball player
- 1968Jeri Ryan, American actress
- 1968Shawn Graham, Canadian politician
- 1969Brian Laudrup, Danish footballer
- 1969Clinton Kelly, American TV personality
- 1969Hans Klok, Dutch illusionist
- 1969Joaquín Cortés, Spanish dancer
- 1969Thomas Jane, American actor
- 1970Dominic Roussel, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1970Ravi Vakil, Canadian-American mathematician
- 1971Lea Salonga, Filipina actress and singer
- 1972Laurence Leboucher, French cyclist
- 1972Michael Chang, American tennis player
- 1973Claus Lundekvam, Norwegian footballer
- 1973Einar Kristian Tveitå, Norwegian athlete
- 1973Juninho Paulista, Brazilian footballer
- 1973Scott Phillips, American drummer (Creed)
- 1974Chris Moyles, English DJ
- 1974James Blunt, English musician
- 1975Alun Armstrong, English footballer
- 1975Drew Barrymore, American actress
- 1976Faan Rautenbach, South African rugby player
- 1977Hakan Yakin, Swiss footballer
- 1977Timo Rose, German filmmaker
- 1978Jenny Frost, British singer/presenter/model/DJ (Atomic Kitten)
- 1979Brett Emerton, Australian footballer
- 1979Lee Na-young, South Korean actress
- 1980Kang Sung Hoon, South Korean singer (Sechs Kies)
- 1981Fredson Camara, Brazilian footballer
- 1981Jeanette Biedermann, German pop singer
- 1982Dichen Lachman, Australian Actress
- 1982Jenna Haze, American pornographic actress
- 1982Robert Weiner, Jr., American water polo player
- 1982Shawntae Spencer, American football player
- 1983Penny Flame, American pornographic actress
- 1983Shaun Tait, Australian cricketer
- 1984Branislav Ivanović, Serbian footballer
- 1984Giorgos Printezis, Greek basketball player
- 1984Jodie Rivera, YouTube celebrity
- 1984Tommy Bowe, Irish rugby player
- 1985Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer
- 1985Larissa Riquelme, Paraguayan model
- 1985Sean Garballey, American politician
- 1986Miko Hughes, American actor
- 1986Rajon Rondo, American basketball player
- 1987Han Hyo-joo, South Korean actress and model
- 1988Kévin Borlée, Belgian athlete
- 1988Ximena Navarrete, Mexican beauty queen, Miss Universe 2010
- 1989Alia Sabur, American college educator
- 1989Anna Sundstrand, Swedish singer (Play)
- 1990Luca Profeta, Italian footballer
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Who Died On February 22?
- 965Otto, Duke of Burgundy (b. 944)
- 1071Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (killed in battle) (b. c. 1055)
- 1111Roger Borsa, King of Sicily
- 1371King David II of Scotland (b. 1324)
- 1511Henry, Duke of Cornwall, son of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon
- 1512Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and explorer (b. 1454)
- 1627Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (b. 1558)
- 1674Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)
- 1680Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress (b. c. 1640)
- 1690Charles Le Brun, French artist (b. 1619)
- 1727Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer (b. 1661)
- 1731Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1638)
- 1732Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663)
- 1742Charles Rivington, English publisher (b. 1688)
- 1797Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)
- 1799Heshen, infamous Qing Dynasty Chinese official at court (b. 1750)
- 1816Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1723)
- 1875Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (b. 1796)
- 1875Sir Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist (b. 1797)
- 1888Anna Kingsford, English doctor, seer and women’s rights campaigner (b. 1846)
- 1890Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (b. 1834)
- 1890John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (b. 1822)
- 1892Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (b. 1828)
- 1903Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
- 1904Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (b. 1832)
- 1913Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (b. 1857)
- 1914Thillaiaadi Valliammai, a Tamil satyagrahi from South Africa (b. 1898)
- 1921Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864)
- 1923Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (b. 1852)
- 1934Willem Kes, Dutch conductor (b. 1856)
- 1939Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1875)
- 1942Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (b. 1881)
- 1943Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (b. 1919)
- 1943Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1918)
- 1943Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1921)
- 1944Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mohandas Gandhi (b. 1869)
- 1945Osip Brik, Russian writer (b. 1888)
- 1956Alexandros Svolos, Greek legal expert and politician (b. 1892)
- 1958Abul Kalam Azad, Indian independence movement leader (b. 1888)
- 1960Paul-Émile Borduas, Canadian painter (b. 1905)
- 1961Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b. 1889)
- 1965Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1882)
- 1968Peter Arno, American cartoonist (b. 1904)
- 1973Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Canadian politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
- 1973Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (b. 1900)
- 1974Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1930)
- 1976Angela Baddeley, English actress (b. 1904)
- 1976Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (b. 1943)
- 1979Sigrid Schauman, Finnish painter (b. 1877)
- 1980Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist (b. 1886)
- 1981Michael Maltese, American screenwriter (b. 1908)
- 1982Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (b. 1898)
- 1983Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (b. 1913)
- 1983Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)
- 1984David Vetter, The Boy in the Bubble (b. 1971)
- 1985Alexander Scourby, American actor (b. 1913)
- 1985Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (b. 1889)
- 1985Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (b. 1913)
- 1987Andy Warhol, American artist, director, and writer (b. 1928)
- 1989Moisés da Costa Amaral, East Timorese leader, UDT President in the exterior (b. 1938)
- 1994Papa John Creach, American musician (b. 1917)
- 1995Ed Flanders, American actor (b. 1934)
- 1997Joseph Aiuppa, American gangster (b. 1907)
- 1998Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)
- 1999Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
- 2000Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (b. 1946)
- 2001Les Medley, English footballer (b.1920)
- 2002Chuck Jones, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
- 2002Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963)
- 2002Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel and political leader (b. 1934)
- 2002Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat and war hero (b. 1916)
- 2003Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (b. 1913)
- 2004Andy Seminick, American baseball player (b. 1920)
- 2004Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
- 2005Lee Eun Ju, Korean actress (b. 1980)
- 2005Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
- 2005Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish artist (b. 1929)
- 2006Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (b. 1961)
- 2007Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954)
- 2007George Jellicoe, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords & Special Boat Service veteran (b. 1918)
- 2007Howard Verne Ramsey, oldest U.S. veteran of WWI (b. 1898)
- 2007Samuel Hinga Norman, Sierra Leonean alleged war criminal (b. 1940)
- 2011Nicholas Courtney, British actor (b. 1929)
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