Year 1819
Spain sold Florida to the United States for 5 million.
FEBRUARY 22
Daily Historical Chronicle
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22 February: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 22 February.
Observances & Special Days
World Thinking Day
Independence Day of Saint Lucia.( Gain independence from UK)
Year 1845
Serampore and Balasore were bought by the British East India Company from the Dutch East India Company.
Year 1942
World War II- US President Roosevelt ordered the withdrawal of General Douglas MacArthur, as defeat by the Japanese forces in the Philippines seems inevitable.
Year 1948
Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
Year 1978
Yashwant Vishnu Chandrachud became the 16th Chief Justice of India.
1979, 22nd Feb: St. Lucia gained independence from Britain.
Egypt & Syria join to form the Arab Republic.
Year 2009
Slumdog millionaire win 8 Oscars.
Born 1732
George Washington, an American political leader and the first president of the United States.
Born 1788
Arthur Schopenhauer, a German philosopher.
Born 1857
Heinrich Hertz, a German physicist.
Born 1857
Robert Baden-Powell, the Founder of the worldwide Scout Movement.
Born 1863
Maharaja Chamarajendra Wadiyar X, the maharaja of the Kingdom of Mysore.
Born 1884
Bhopal Singh, the ruler of the Indian princely state of Udaipur.
Born 1885
Jatindra Mohan Sengupta, an Indian revolutionary.
Born 1889
Sahajanand Saraswati, an ascetic, a nationalist, and a peasant leader of India.
Born 1892
Indulal Kanaiyalal Yagnik, an Indian independence activist.
Born 1902
Friedrich Strassmann, a German chemist.
Born 1906
Sohan Lal Dwivedi, an Indian poet, Gandhian, and freedom fighter.
Born 1913
Mirza Hameedullah Beg, the 15th Chief Justice of India.
Born 1922
Sayed Haider Raza, an Indian painter.
Born 1964
Sooraj Barjatya, an Indian film director.
Born 1964
Ed Boon, an American video game programmer.
Born 1975
Drew Barrymore, an American actress.
Born On This Day
Sir Muhammad Ekbal, writer of Song "Sare Jahanse Achha", was born.
Died 1512
Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian merchant, explorer, and navigator, from whose name the terms America and Americas are derived.
Died 1815
Smithson Tennant, an English chemist.
Died 1827
Charles Willson Peale, an American painter, soldier, scientist, inventor, politician, and naturalist.
Died 1944
Kasturba Gandhi, an Indian political activist, and wife of Mahatma Gandhi.
Died 1958
Maulana Abul Kalam, an Indian scholar, Islamic theologian, independence activist, and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress.
Died 1982
Josh Malihabadi, a Pakistani Urdu poet.