Historical Events on February 22.

1. 1819, 22nd Feb: Spain sold Florida to the United States for 5 million.

2. 1845, 22nd Feb: Serampore and Balasore were bought by the British East India Company from the Dutch East India Company.

3. 1942, 22nd Feb: World War II- US President Roosevelt ordered the withdrawal of General Douglas MacArthur, as defeat by the Japanese forces in the Philippines seems inevitable.

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5. 1948, 22nd Feb: Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.

6. 1978, 22nd Feb: Yashwant Vishnu Chandrachud became the 16th Chief Justice of India.

7. 1979, 22nd Feb: St. Lucia gained independence from Britain.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on February 22.

1. 1732: George Washington, an American political leader and the first president of the United States.

2. 1788: Arthur Schopenhauer, a German philosopher.

3. 1857: Heinrich Hertz, a German physicist.

4. 1857: Robert Baden-Powell, the Founder of the worldwide Scout Movement.

5. 1863: Maharaja Chamarajendra Wadiyar X, the maharaja of the Kingdom of Mysore.

6. 1884: Bhopal Singh, the ruler of the Indian princely state of Udaipur.

7. 1885: Jatindra Mohan Sengupta, an Indian revolutionary.

8. 1889: Sahajanand Saraswati, an ascetic, a nationalist, and a peasant leader of India.

9. 1892: Indulal Kanaiyalal Yagnik, an Indian independence activist.

10. 1902: Friedrich Strassmann, a German chemist.

11. 1906: Sohan Lal Dwivedi, an Indian poet, Gandhian, and freedom fighter.

12. 1913: Mirza Hameedullah Beg, the 15th Chief Justice of India.

13. 1922: Sayed Haider Raza, an Indian painter.

14. 1964: Sooraj Barjatya, an Indian film director.

15. 1964: Ed Boon, an American video game programmer.

16. 1975: Drew Barrymore, an American actress.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on February 22.

1. 1512: Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian merchant, explorer, and navigator, from whose name the terms America and Americas are derived.

2. 1815: Smithson Tennant, an English chemist. 

3. 1827: Charles Willson Peale, an American painter, soldier, scientist, inventor, politician, and naturalist.

4. 1944: Kasturba Gandhi, an Indian political activist, and wife of Mahatma Gandhi.

5. 1958: Maulana Abul Kalam, an Indian scholar, Islamic theologian, independence activist, and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress.

6. 1982: Josh Malihabadi, a Pakistani Urdu poet.

22-February-1845

Serampore of Hooghly district and Balasore cities from Dutch purchased East Indian Company.

22-February-1854

Kawasji Nanabhai Dawar started the first Cloth Mill namely 'Bombay Spinning Mills'.

22-February-1858

Gannau resident of Samosa Gali in Delhi, arrested for revolutionary activities, was hanged.

22-February-1873

Sir Muhammad Ekbal, writer of song 'Sare Jahanse Achha', was born.

22-February-1885

Jatindra Mohan Sen Gupta, great nationalist leader, was born.

22-February-1905

Purushotamsing Bajaj, industrialist and social worker, was born at Shikarpur (Sind).

22-February-1913

Judge Mirza Hameedullah Beg, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born in Lucknow.

22-February-1944

Kasturba Gandhi passed away in British imprisonment in Aga Khan Palace at Pune.

22-February-1946

Curfew imposed till 9 p.m. by the British in Bombay as rioting and looting continued for the second day.

22-February-1947

Nehru welcomes British independence offer, invites Muslims to join at New Delhi.

22-February-1948

Jayalalitha, chief minister of Tamil Nadu, was born.

22-February-1958

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad passed away in New Delhi, India. He was a great leader, great orator, revolutionary and fighter for national freedom. Some of his works which are the masterpieces of the Urdu language are "Ghubari-Khatir" and Tadhkirah". He was Minister of Education in the first Indian Government.

22-February-1977

Emergency and 'MISSA' laws were cancelled.

22-February-1978

Judge Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 11/07/1985.

22-February-1982

South-South Conference opens in New Delhi.

22-February-1990

1st day India vs New Zealand cricket at Auckland. NZ 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps.

22-February-1993

Sudhakarrao Naik, Mahrashtra CM, resigns in the wake of party dissidence.

22-February-1993

Vinod Kambli scores 224 vs England at Bombay in 411 balls and smashes 23 fours.

22-February-1994

Punjab brought back to international air map after 10 years with the introduction of flights to 8 countries from Amritsar Rajasansi Airport.

22-February-1996

Madanlal Khurana, Delhi CM, resigns (Hawala scandal).

22-February-1996

Indian police charge 14 more politicians in corruption scandal that has already led to resignations from the Prime Minister Narasimha Rao's govt.

22-February-1997

India, Turkmenistan and Iran sign transit agreement.

22-February-1997

India outplays Poland in the final hockey `Test' and win series 2-0.

22-February-1997

Jockey Mark Gallagher shot at and injured in Bangalore.