22 February In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, February 22 is the day number 53 in a given year. February 22 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1316	The forces of the infante Ferdinand of Majorca fought againstthose loyal to Princess Matilda of Hainaut in the Battle of Picotin onthe Peloponnese peninsula in Greece.
1371	Robert II became King of Scots was the first monarch of the House of Stewart.
1632	Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, in which he advocated Copernican heliocentrism, was delivered to his patron, Grand Duke Ferdinando.
1731	America's first President George Washington was born.
1744	The British fleet was defeated by the combined Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Tulon.
1819	Under the terms of the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sold Florida And other North American territory to the United States for about US$5 million.
1821	Spain sold the state of Florida to the US for 5 million dollars.
1853	Founded as Washington University Eliot Seminary in St. Louis.
1857	Robert Bedle Powell, the founder of the international body of scouts, was born in a religious house in London. He established an international institution of scouts with the aim of bringing forth the youth in the society and helping the weak.
1865	Tennessee created a new constitution abolishing slavery.
1876	Johns Hopkins University was founded in Baltimore.
1876	The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland , named after philanthropist Johns Hopkins, who gave the largest philanthropic bequest in U.S. history for its foundation, opened.
1876	Swedish women Karolina Olsson went to sleep and purportedly fell into a state of hibernation for the next 32 years.
1887	The Union Labor Party was held in Cincinnati.
1899	Philippine–American War: Filipino forces launched their first counterattack in a failed attempt aimed at recapturing Manila from the Americans.
1909	The sixteen United States Navy battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by Connecticut, complete a circumnavigation of the globe.
1913	The Revolutionary President of Mexico Francisco Madero was killed by the army. In this incident, Vice President Pino Sverez was also killed along with him.
1944	Mahatma Gandhi's wife Kasturba Gandhi died.
1949	Cincinnati Gardens opened in the city of Cincinnati.
1956	Elvis Presley entered the United States Music Chart for the first time at the "Heartbreak Hotel".
1958	Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Syrian President Shukri al-Quwatli signed a union pact to form the United Arab Republic.
1979	The United Kingdom granted independence to St. Lucia.
1980	The declaration of military rule in Afghanistan was announced.
1980	At the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United States ice hockey team defeated the Soviet Union in an unlikely victory that became known as the Miracle on Ice.
1983	The play Moose Murders opened and closed on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York City, becoming the standard of 'awfulness' against which all Broadway theatre failures are judged.
1995	At least 99 prison rioters were killed by the Algiers Police.
1995	The photos taken by the Corona spy satellite program were classified under an executive order signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1996	Actress Halle Berry filed divorce from David Justice.
1997	A team of researchers at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced for the first time a 'clone' from a cell extracted from a mammalian organism.
1997	LPGA Cup Noodles Hawaiian ladies Open was won by Annika Sorenstam.
1997	Scientists at The Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the birth of a cloned sheep named Dolly, the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell, seven months after the fact.
1998	The 1998 Winter Olympics were held in Nagano in Japan.
1998	18th Winter Olympic games closed at Nagano, Japan.
2006	1 billionth song was sold by Apple’s iTunes Store.
2006	At least six men staged Britain's biggest cash robbery ever, stealing £53,116,760 in bank notes from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
2010	Planning for a 20 – 25 billion euro financial aid plan for Greece was denied by Germany and the European Union.
2011	An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale killed 181 people in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand.
2011	Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi appears on television and claims to remain head of the revolution.
2011	New Zealand suffered one of its worst peacetime disasters whena 6.5 ML earthquake struck Christchurch.
2011	Bahraini uprising-Tens of thousands of people marched in protest in Manama against the deaths of seven people killed by police and army forces during previous protests.
2012	Thousands of people commemorate the first anniversary of the earthquake where 185 people died last year, in New Zealand’s city of Christchurch.
2012	A train failed to apply its brakes and crashed through a bufferstop at Once Station in Buenos Aires, resulting in 51 deaths and morethan 700 injuries.
2013	The United Kingdom’s bond credit rating is downgraded for the first time in history.
2014	Matteo Renzi a 39 year old Former Florentine has been inaugurated as Prime Minister of Italy.
705	Empress Wu Zetian, the only woman to rule China in her ownright, abdicated the throne, restoring the Tang Dynasty.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1845	The Dutch East India Company bought Serampore and Balasore by the East India Company.
1958	India's renowned politician, intellectual and litterateur Abul Kalam Ahmad Azad died at the age of 70.
1982	Noted Urdu poet Josh Malihabadi of the Indian subcontinent passed away.
1999	India's renowned economist Jagdish Bhagwati was appointed as the head of the Center for Indian Political Economy at Columbia University.

Day/Observance	Level
World Thinking Day	International Day
Kasturba Gandhi Memorial Day	National Day
Maulana Azad Memorial Day	National Day
Saint Lucia Independence Day	National Day

Birth Year	Name/Category/Country
1732	George Washington / Politician / United States of america
1836	Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya / Academic / India
1889	Swami Sahajanand Saraswati / Writer / India
1913	Mirza Hameedullah Beg / Lawyer / India
1914	Dev Kant Barooah / Politician / India
1920	Iftekhar / Actor / India
1920	Kamal Kapoor / Actor / India
1964	Sooraj Barjatya / Director / India

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