22 Februar

The **22t o Februar** is the 53t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 312 days ti come (313 in lowp years).

## Events

* 1371 - Robert II o Scotland becomes Keeng, stairtin the line o the Hoose o Stuart on the Scots throne.
* 1651 - Fluids on the Northren Dutch an German coasts kill 15,000 fowk.
* 1784 - William Herschel discovers the spiral galaxy NGC 3521.
* 1797 - French troops land at Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Sooth-Wast Wales. They surrender twa days later.
* 1904 - The Unitit Kinrick recognises the Sooth Orkney Islands as pairt o Argentinae, but claims them again in 1908.
* 1940 - Tenzin Gyatso becomes the 14t Dalai Lama.
* 1943 - Nazi Germany: Members o the White Rose reseestance muivement are executit.
* 1944 - Warld War II: Nijmegen wis malafoustered bi mishanter bombin o the Americans; 800 fowk wis kilt.
* 1958 - Egyp an Sirie form the Unitit Arab Republic.
* 1960 - A minin accident in Zwickau, East Germany, kills 123 fowk.
* 1979 - Saunt Lucia gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
* 1980 - 1980 Winter Olympic Gemmes in Lake Placid, New York: The Unitit States defeats the Soviet Union in the Miracle on Ice ice hockey match.
* 1997 - At the Roslin Institute, scientists propale that an adult sheep cawed Dolly hae been cloned wi success.
* 2005 - A yirdquauk in Sarand, Iran, kills 420 fowk.
* 2011 - A strong yirdquauk strikes the ceety o Christchurch, New Zealand, killin 185 fowk.
* 2012 - 51 fowk are kilt in a train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentinae.
* 2014 - Matteo Renzi becomes Prime meenister o Italy.
* 2014 - Viktor Yanukovych resigns as Preses o Ukraine amid poleetical protests.
* 2017 - Scientists propale the discovery o seven approximately Yird-sized planets around the star TRAPPIST-1.

## Births

* 1403 - Charles VII o Fraunce (d. 1461)
* 1732 - George Washington, 1st Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1799)
* 1788 - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (d. 1860)
* 1857 - Heinrich Hertz, German scientist (d. 1894)
* 1857 – Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (d. 1941)
* 1864 - Jakob Jakobsen, Faroese linguist (d. 1918)
* 1900 - Luis Buñuel, Spainyie filmmaker (d. 1983)
* 1918 - Don Pardo, American radio an telly announcer (d. 2014)
* 1921 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa, leader o the Central African Republic (d. 1996) 
* 1928 - Sir Bruce Forsyth, Inglis enterteener (d. 2017)
* 1932 - Ted Kennedy, American politeecian (d. 2009)
* 1933 - Sheila Hancock, Inglis actress
* 1943 - Horst Köhler, umwhile Preses o Germany
* 1944 - Jonathan Demme, American filmmaker, producer an screenwriter (d. 2017)
* 1949 - Niki Lauda, Austrick racin driver (d. 2019)
* 1950 - Julie Walters, Inglis actress
* 1962 - Steve Irwin, Australian naituralist an telly presenter (d. 2006)
* 1974 - James Blunt, Inglis sangster-sangwriter
* 1975 - Drew Barrymore, American actress
* 1984 - Branislav Ivanovic, Serbie fitbawer
* 1987 - Sergio Romero, Argentine fitbawer
* 1995 - Ryan Christie, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1371 - David II o Scotland (b. 1324)
* 1512 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian splorer an mapmaker (b. 1454)
* 1875 - Charles Lyell, Scots geologist (b. 1797)
* 1913 - Francisco I. Madero, Preses o Mexico (b. 1873)
* 1942 - Stefan Zweig, Austrick writer (b. 1881)
* 1943 - Sophie Scholl, German activist (b. 1921)
* 1944 - Kasturba Gandhi, Indian activist (b. 1869)
* 1987 - Andy Warhol, American airtist (b. 1928)
* 2018 - Richard E. Taylor, Canadian pheesicist (b. 1929)

## Halidays
* Independence Day (Saunt Lucia)
* George Washington's Birthday (Unitit States)