What Day of the Week

February 22, 2019 was the 53^rd day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 312 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.

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

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.

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• 1632

  Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
• 1819

  By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
• 1856

  The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• 1915

  World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
• 1943

  World War II: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
• 1944

  World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
• 1957

  Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.
• 1973

  Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon’s visit to the People’s Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
• 1995

  The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
• 1997

  In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.

• 1040

  Rashi, French rabbi (d. 1105)
• 1892

  Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (d. 1950)
• 1936

  J. Michael Bishop, American immunologist and microbiologist; Nobel laureate
• 1950

  Julie Walters, English actress
• 1962

  Les Wallace, Scottish darts player
• 1973

  Claus Lundekvam, Norwegian footballer
• 1974

  James Blunt, English musician
• 1975

  Drew Barrymore, American actress
• 1983

  Penny Flame, American pornographic actress
• 1988

  Ximena Navarrete, Mexican beauty queen, Miss Universe 2010

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