Historical Events February 22.

1819: Spain sold Florida to the United States for 5 million.

1845: Serampore and Balasore were bought by the British East India Company from the Dutch East India Company.

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.

1948: Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.

1978: Yashwant Vishnu Chandrachud became the 16th Chief Justice of India.

1979: St. Lucia gained independence from Britain.

Famous birthdays and birth anniversaries – February 22.

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

1788: Arthur Schopenhauer, a German philosopher.

1857: Heinrich Hertz, a German physicist.

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

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

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

1885: Jatindra Mohan Sengupta, an Indian revolutionary.

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

1892: Indulal Kanaiyalal Yagnik, an Indian independence activist.

1902: Friedrich Strassmann, a German chemist.

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

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

1922: Sayed Haider Raza, an Indian painter.

1964: Sooraj Barjatya, an Indian film director.

1964: Ed Boon, an American video game programmer.

1975: Drew Barrymore, an American actress.

Death anniversaries ay – February 22.

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

1815: Smithson Tennant, an English chemist. 

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

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

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

1982: Josh Malihabadi, a Pakistani Urdu poet.