What Day of the Week

February 22, 2020 was the 53^rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 313 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.

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

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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.
• 1853

  Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
• 1879

  In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
• 1924

  U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
• 1944

  World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
• 1958

  Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
• 1959

  Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
• 1983

  The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
• 2011

  An earthquake measuring 6.3 in magnitude strikes Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 181 people.

• 1902

  Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (d. 1980)
• 1903

  Robert Weede, American baritone (d. 1972)
• 1914

  Renato Dulbecco, Nobel laureate
• 1949

  Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver and entrepreneur
• 1961

  Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist
• 1964

  Ed Boon, American video game programmer
• 1969

  Joaquín Cortés, Spanish dancer
• 1972

  Laurence Leboucher, French cyclist
• 1979

  Brett Emerton, Australian footballer
• 1980

  Kang Sung Hoon, South Korean singer (Sechs Kies)

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