The February 22nd is the 53e Jour of the Année of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 312 days before the end of the year (313 so bissextile).
Events
18th century
19th century
20th century
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2000 : A person in charge of the Basque Socialist party, Fernando Buesa, and its bodyguard are killed in an car bomb attack with Vitoria with the Spanish Basque Country, allotted to the ETA.
21e century
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2001 :
- the first lawsuit for sexual Slavery in time of war in front of the court of $the Hague, condemns three Serb to custodial sentences going from 12 to 28 years to have raped Moslem women in a camp in the south-east of Sarajevo.
- the gripping force of the peace of UNO gives an opinion along the border disputed between the Ethiopia and the Érythrée after the withdrawal of the Ethiopian army of the zones conquered in two years and half of territorial conflict.
- 2002 :
- Opening of the park Vulcania on the commune of Saint-Bear-the-Rocks
- the mayor of Tananarive and candidate with the presidential election, Marc Ravalomanana, which has disputed for two months the results of the presidential election with Madagascar, autoproclame president.
- the chief of UNITA, Jonas Savimbi, with the head for more than thirty years of the rebel movement which tries to seize the power in Angola, has found death at the time of an attack of the army against forces of the National union for the total independence of the Angola.
- the government Sri Lankian sign an agreement of unlimited cease-fire with the rebellion Tamoul E, in prelude to peace negotiations which must put an end to a old Civil war 18 years.
- Michele d' Auria, doctor of the Abbot Pierre, is placed under nut to be extradited towards the Italy, its country of origin. It is sought there and already condemned by Contumace for holds-up.
- After its victories in slalom and with compound, Janica Kostelic is essential in giant slalom Winter Olympics on Salt Lake City.
- 2003 : “ the pianist ”, of Roman Polanski, gains seven trophies at the time of the 28e night of César of the French cinema, of which that of better film.
- 2004 :
- the administrative court of Marseilles rejects the ultimate recourse of the president of the National front, Jean-Marie Le Pen, against the decision of the regional prefect not to validate his candidature for the regional elections because of its absence of domiciliation in the the Alpes-Maritimes.
- a attack-suicide in a bus in the center of Jerusalem makes nine dead of which the Kamikaze.
Births
Death
- 1875: Charles Lyell British geologist (° November 14th 1797).
- 1890 : Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (° May 23rd 1834)
- 1903: Hugo Wolf, Austrian type-setter (° March 13rd 1860)
- 1913: Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (° November 26th 1857)
- 1913: Francisco Madero, president of Mexico of 1911 with 1913 (° October 30th 1873)
- 1939: Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (° July 26th 1875)
- 1942: Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (° November 28th 1881)
- 1943: Hans Scholl, resistant German against the Nazism (° September 22nd 1918)
- 1943: Sophie Scholl, resistant allemande against the Nazism (° May 9th 1921)
- 1967: Langston Hughes, American writer
- 1968: Peter Arno, American creator of cartoon. (° January 8th 1904)
- 1973: Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Prime Minister Québécois (° June 20th 1916)
- 1976: Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supreme) (° June 30th 1943)
- 1980: Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist (° March 1st 1886)
- 1986: Jacques Pâris de Bollardière, general French (° December 16th 1907)
- 1987: Andy Warhol, American artist (° August 6th 1928)
- 1998: Abraham A. Ribicoff, American politician (° April 9th 1910)
- 2002: Chuck Jones, creator of cartoons (° September 21st 1912)
- 2002: Jonas Savimbi, politician Angolan (° August 3rd 1934)
- 2005: Simone Simon, French actress (° April 23rd 1910)
- 2007: Refusals Johnson, American player of basketball (° September 18th 1954)
Celebrations
Festivals
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First names: Marta, Isabelle, Isabé, Isabeau, Isabel, Isabelette, Isaline, Isaure, Isaut, Iseline, Iseult, Isolde, Papias, Télésphore (for the Churches of the East);
- In Egypt: day of the Unit;
- on February 22nd is the world day of the Scoutisme ( thinking day ), in remembering the birth date of Lord Baden Powell, founder of scouting. On this occasion, the scouts of the whole world are encouraged to carry their scarf (or even their uniform).
Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day
Catholic saints of the day
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Isabelle de France (1225 - 1270), Frenchwoman, virgin, sister of the king holy Louis, founder of a monastery of Clarisses with Longchamp, close to Paris.
- Jacques Carvalho († 1624), martyr, Jesuit Portuguese
- Marguerite de Cortone († 1297), penitent Italian layman
See too
Beats-smg: Vasarė 22
Be-X-old: 22 лютага
Fiu-vro: 22. radokuu päiv
Nds-nl: 22 febrewaori
Simple: February 22
Zh-yue: 2 月 22 號