Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: February 22
February 22, 2024 is the 53rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 313 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Pisces is your zodiac sign. Amethyst is your modern birthstone. Bloodstone is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: February 22
- 1797 –The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
- 1942 –World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
- 1944 –World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
- 1948 –Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
- 1974 –Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
- 1986 –Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
- 1994 –Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
- 1995 –The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
- 2002 –Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
- 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.
Who were born on February 22?
- 1714 –Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (d. 1795)
- 1840 –August Bebel, German politician (d. 1913)
- 1918 –Robert Wadlow, World’s tallest ever human (d. 1940)
- 1922 –Apostolos Santas, Greek resistance veteran
- 1928 –Axel Strøbye, Danish actor (d. 2005)
- 1938 –Pierre Vallières, Canadian politician (d. 1995)
- 1944 –Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player
- 1952 –Cyrinda Foxe, American model (d. 2002)
- 1973 –Claus Lundekvam, Norwegian footballer
- 1983 –Shaun Tait, Australian cricketer
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