February 22 is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 312 days remaining until the end of the year (313 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).
NATIONAL MARGARITA DAY
NATIONAL MARGARITA DAY
1632 – Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1872 – The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
1943 – World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
1957 – Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột.
1968 – The American war effort in Vietnam was hit hard by the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive, which ended on this day in 1968.
1980 – In one of the most dramatic upsets in Olympic history, the underdog U.S. hockey team, made up of college players, defeats the four-time defending gold-medal winning Soviet team at the XIII Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York. The game was thereafter referred to as the Miracle on Ice.
1819 – By the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
1847 – The Mexican–American War: The Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans.
1856 – The United States Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, PA.
1862 – Missippi Senator, Jefferson 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.
1862 – Missippi Senator, Jefferson 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.
1872 – The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
1889 – United States President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
1899 – Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
1909 – The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world. The fleet was sent on its mission by then President Theodore Roosevelt.
1915 – World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
1943 – World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
1957 – Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột.
1968 – The American war effort in Vietnam was hit hard by the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive, which ended on this day in 1968.
1980 – In one of the most dramatic upsets in Olympic history, the underdog U.S. hockey team, made up of college players, defeats the four-time defending gold-medal winning Soviet team at the XIII Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York. The game was thereafter referred to as the Miracle on Ice.
1994 – Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
1997 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
1997 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
2006 – At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
2014 – One of the world’s most-wanted criminals, Joaquin “El Chapo” (“Shorty”) Guzman Loera, head of the Sinaloa cartel, the world’s biggest drug trafficking organization, is arrested in a joint U.S.-Mexican operation in Mazatlán, Mexico, after outrunning law enforcement for more than a decade.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1732 – George Washington, American general and politician, 1st President of the United States (d. 1799)
1788 – Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher and author (d. 1860)
1810 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1849)
1857 – Heinrich Hertz, German physicist, philosopher, and academic (d. 1894)
1892 – Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet and playwright (d. 1950)
1950 – Julius "Dr. J" Erving, American basketball player and sportscaster, NBA Hall of Fame
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2014 – One of the world’s most-wanted criminals, Joaquin “El Chapo” (“Shorty”) Guzman Loera, head of the Sinaloa cartel, the world’s biggest drug trafficking organization, is arrested in a joint U.S.-Mexican operation in Mazatlán, Mexico, after outrunning law enforcement for more than a decade.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1732 – George Washington, American general and politician, 1st President of the United States (d. 1799)
1788 – Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher and author (d. 1860)
1810 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1849)
1857 – Heinrich Hertz, German physicist, philosopher, and academic (d. 1894)
1892 – Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet and playwright (d. 1950)
1950 – Julius "Dr. J" Erving, American basketball player and sportscaster, NBA Hall of Fame
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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