February 22: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

February 22nd marks the 53rd day of the Gregorian calendar year. There are 312 days remaining until the end of the year (or 313 days in case of leap years). People born on this day are under the sign of Pisces. Famous birthdays on this day include Drew Barrymore (1975), Robert Wadlow (1918) and James Blunt (1974).
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Holidays

Blessed Saint Isabel of France (+1270)
United States - Washington's Birthday (traditionally).
Ash Wednesday in 2023.
Saint Lucia - independence (1979).
The Scouting movement celebrates this day as "B.-P. day" or "Founder's Day" as it is the shared birthday of the Scouts' founder Sir Robert Baden-Powell and his wife, Lady Olave Baden-Powell, the World Chief Guide.
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts celebrates this day as "Thinking Day" as it is the shared birthday of the Scouts' founder Sir Robert Baden-Powell, and his wife, Lady Olave Baden-Powell, the World Chief Guide.
Roman Catholic Church - Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter.
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Events

2019 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis: Venezuelan National Guard troops open fire on indigenous Pemon protestors who tried to block a military convoy headed to Brazil-Venezuela border. At least two people were killed and 14 more were injured.
2018 Police in Montenegro have identified the attacker of a grenade attack against the U.S. Embassy in Podgorica yesterday. He was an ex-military veteran of the Armed Forces of Yugoslavia, according to authorities.
2017 Syrian Civil War, Raqqa Offensive: U.S.-backed SDF troops on two fronts meet northeast of Raqqa to encircle a small group of villages held by ISIS.
2016 Jammu and Kashmir insurgency: 2016 Pampore standoff: Insurgents are fighting Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front militants.
2015 War in Donbass - Pro-Russian rebels begin a two week process to remove heavy weapons from eastern Ukraine's front lines, in accordance to the ceasefire agreement. (Reuters via Haaretz). An explosion at a pro Ukraine march in Kharkiv in Ukraine kills three people and injures over ten others.
2014 Yulia Tymoshenko was the former prime minister of Ukraine, who has been held for over two years on politically motivated charges. Later in the day, she is released. (The Irish Times).
2013 Syrian civil war: Three missiles fired by the Syrian army hit residential areas in Aleppo's northern city. They killed at least 29 civilians, and injured 150 more.
2012 Afghanistan Quran protests:
2011 Christchurch, New Zealand, is struck by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake at just 5 km from the surface. It causes widespread destruction and kills hundreds.
2010 At the Rio Group summit in Playa del Carmen Mexico, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe almost got into a spat with each other, with Uribe taunting Chavez ampquotBe man! You're a coward! Keep talking and arguing face-to-face.
2009 Los Angeles, California: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosts its Oscar Awards Ceremony. Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
2008 Russian President Vladimir Putin described the recognition by several world powers of Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence as a "terrible precedent" that could have unintended consequences for other parts of the world, and that would be a blow to the West.
2007 Iraq War:
2006 The South Dakota Senate approves a bill which would outlaw nearly all forms of abortion.
2005 Images taken by the European space probe Mars Express reveal that there is a sea ice near Mars' equator. This discovery will increase the chances of life existing on Mars. BBC
2004 Zvi Mazel is the ambassador of Israel to Sweden and calls Sten Andersson, former foreign minister, and Pierre Schori, Sweden's UN ambassador, "professional anti-Israelis".
2003 Jesica Santillan was critically ill after she received donor organs from the wrong blood type during a heart transplant. She is now off life support and declared brain dead following a second heart transplant.
2002 Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is shot dead in a military ambush
1999 Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
1998 King & I, closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 781 performances
1997 Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Open.
1996 Bus Stop opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 29 performances
1995 Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters
1994 Les Miserables, opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya
1993 Vinod Kambli scores 224 versus England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours.
1992 Park Your Car in Harvard Yard closes at Music Box, New York City
1991 Actor Bill Bixby (57) weds Laura Michael (32).
1989 Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress
1988 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 metre (39.10 seconds).
1987 Andy Warhol, American pop artist/director/writer, dies from complications following gall bladder surgery at age 58 (born 1928).
1986 Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1983 Hindus kill 3000 Muslims in Assam, India.
1982 New York City Mayor Koch announces he will run for New York Governor (unsuccessful)
1981 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic.
1980 USA beats USSR in Olympic hockey 4-3 en route to a gold medal
1979 Cleveland (Ohio) Metroparks Zoo's Primate and Cat Building is dedicated.
1978 Two tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly, Tennessee.
1976 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic.
1974 Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1973 US and China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing and Washington DC.
1972 Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir and Prime Minister of Qatar.
1971 Lieutenant General Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria.
1970 Charles Aznavour closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 23 performances
1969 Barbara Jo Rubin wins a United States thoroughbred horse race making history as the first woman to do so.
1968 Rock group Genesis release their first record "The Silent Sun".
1967 25,000 American and South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border.
1966 Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok and Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew
1965 USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit
1964 Beatles arrive back in England after their 1st US visit
1963 Beatles begin their own music publishing company
1962 Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free throw attempts.
1959 Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
1958 Portotino closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 3 performances
1957 Jockey Ted Atkinson records his 3,500th win.
1955 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail
1950 Brockway and Weinstock publish Men of Music
1948 Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die.
1947 ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoon ''Cat Fishin''', is released.
1945 Arab League forms (Cairo, Egypt).
1944 US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem and Nijmegen by mistake / 800+ die
1943 World War II: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
1942 World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
1941 German assault on El Agheila, Libya.
1940 German air force sinks two German destroyers, killing 578.
1939 Netherlands recognizes Franco-regime in Spain.
1936 Construction on Ypenburg Netherlands airport begins
1935 Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House.
1934 Frank Capra's ''It Happened One Night'', starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, is released. It becomes a smash hit and the first of Capra's great screen classics. It becomes the first film to win all 5 of the major Academy Awards ampndash Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture. Gable and Colbert receive their only Oscars for this film.
1932 Purple Heart award re-instituted.
1927 ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine
1924 1st presidential radio address
1923 Transcontinental airmail service begins
1922 Following intense nationalist agitation after World War I, Great Britain proclaims Egypt formally independent but continues to occupy the country militarily and control its politics.
1920 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville, California)
1918 Germany claims Baltic states, Finland and Ukraine from Russia.
1917 German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships.
1915 World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
1913 Mexican Revolution: Assassination of President Francisco I. Madero and Vice President José María Pino Suárez. Is succeeded by General Victoriano Huerta.
1912 J Vedrines makes first airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph.
1909 Great White Fleet, first US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia.
1906 Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in Los Angeles California.
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.
1903 Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water.
1900 Hawaii became a US territory.
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