February 22

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on February 22. From 1900 until now. February 22 is under the sign of Pisces. Famous birthdays on this day include Drew Barrymore (1975), Robert Wadlow (1918) and James Blunt (1974). Several movies were released around February 22 over the years, such as Gentleman's Fate in 1931 directed by Mervyn LeRoy and The Aviator's Wife in 1981 directed by Éric Rohmer.
But much more happened on February 22 over the years: find out below

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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 (GNB) troops open fire on a group of indigenous Pemon protesters that attempted to block a military convoy heading to the Brazil–Venezuela border, killing at least two people and wounding 14 others, several seriously. (The Washington Post) (Miami Herald)
2018 Montenegrin police identify the perpetrator of a grenade attack on the U.S. embassy in Podgorica which occurred yesterday. According to authorities, he was a veteran of the Armed Forces of Yugoslavia. (BBC)
2017 Syrian Civil War, Raqqa offensive: U.S.-backed SDF forces on two fronts meet up northeast of Raqqa, encircling a pocket of villages still held by ISIS. (Rudaw)
2016 Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir: 2016 Pampore stand-off: Loud explosions and gunfire are heard in a building where Kashmiri forces are fighting Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front militants in a standoff that has claimed the lives of five soldiers and one civilian. (AP via Washington Post)
2015 War in Donbass: Pro-Russian rebels start a two-week process of removing heavy weapons from the front lines in eastern Ukraine in accordance with the ceasefire agreement. (Reuters via Haaretz)An explosion at a pro-Ukraine march kills three and injures more than 10 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (AFP via Yahoo News UK)
2014 The Ukrainian parliament votes to free Yulia Tymoshenko, the former prime minister jailed for more than two years for what supporters say are politically tainted charges. She is released later in the day. (The Irish Times), (BBC)
2013 Syrian civil war:: Three missiles launched by the Syrian army crash into residential areas of Syria's northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 29 civilians and injuring 150 others. (Reuters) (BBC)
2012 Afghanistan Quran protests:
2011 A 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes Christchurch, New Zealand at only 5 kilometers from the surface, causing widespread damage and hundreds of fatalities.
2010 Colombian President Álvaro Uribe and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez almost come to blows at the Rio Group summit in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, with Uribe taunting Chávez ampquotBe a man! … you're a coward face-to-face! Stay and argue face-to-face!ampquot and Chávez responding with a simple ampquotGo to Hell!ampquot BBC)
2009 In Los Angeles, California, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences holds its Oscar awards ceremony. Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
2008 Russian President Vladimir Putin describes the recognition of Kosovo's unilaterally declared independence by several major world powers as ampquota terrible precedent,ampquot ... that ampquotbreaks up the entire system of international relations,ampquot ... which has taken ampquotcenturies to evolve.ampquot ampquotAnd undoubtedly, it may entail a whole chain of unpredictable consequences to other regions in the worldampquot and that will come back to hit the West ampquotin the face.ampquot
2007 Iraq War:
2006 South Dakota Senate approves a bill that would purport to outlaw almost all forms of abortion. (New York Times)
2005 Images relayed by the European space probe, Mars Express, reveal the existence of a sea of ice close to the equator of Mars. The discovery is considered to increase the likelihood of life currently existing on the planet. BBC (Globe and Mail)
2004 Zvi Mazel, the ambassador of Israel in Sweden, calls former foreign minister Sten Andersson and Sweden's UN ambassador Pierre Schori "professional anti-Israelis". (Aftonbladet) (TV4.se) (Aftonbladet) (dn.se) (SVD)
2003 Jesica Santillan, who was made critically ill after receiving donor organs of the wrong blood type in a medical accident during a heart-lung transplant, is taken off life support after being declared brain dead after a second heart-lung transplant operation.
2002 Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed 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 (Voskhod Test)
1964 Beatles arrive back in England after their 1st US visit
1963 Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)
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 (rev ed)
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 (Calvin Coolidge)
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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