Thursday February 22, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

February 22: Day of the Week

February 22, 2024 was the 53rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 313 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Thursday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Mokuyōbi.

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Here’s the February calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

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.

February 22 Historical Event(s)

1495
King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city’s throne.
1855
The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania)
1862
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.
1882
The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
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.
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 White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
1948
Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
1983
The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
1994
Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.

Who were born on February 22?

1857
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894)
1881
Joseph B. Ely, American politician (d. 1956)
1900
Luis Buñuel, Spanish-born film director (d. 1983)
1906
Helge Kjærulff-Schmidt, Danish actor (d. 1982)
1918
Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2000)
1922
Apostolos Santas, Greek resistance veteran
1927
Florencio Campomanes, Filipino political scientist (d. 2010)
1934
Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager (d. 2010)
1938
Ishmael Reed, American writer
1971
Lea Salonga, Filipina actress and singer

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