Right now is Sunday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 2026. There are 312 days left within the 12 months.
Right now in historical past:
On Feb. 22, 2022, three white males had been convicted of federal hate crimes within the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, who was jogging by way of their neighborhood close to Brunswick, Georgia, when he was attacked in 2020. (The boys are serving life sentences after being convicted of homicide in state courtroom.)
Additionally on this date:
In 1732, the primary president of america, George Washington, was born in Westmoreland County within the Virginia Colony.
In 1784, a U.S. service provider ship, the Empress of China, left New York for the primary commerce voyage of an American ship to China.
In 1819, a weakened Spain, going through revolutions in Latin America, signed a treaty ceding Florida to america.
In 1862, Jefferson Davis was inaugurated to a full six-year time period as president of the Accomplice States of America after his election the earlier November. He beforehand served because the Confederacy’s provisional president.
In 1959, the inaugural Daytona 500 race was held; though Johnny Beauchamp was initially declared the winner, the victory was later awarded to Lee Petty.
In 1967, greater than 25,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction Metropolis, aimed toward smashing a Viet Cong stronghold close to the Cambodian border.
In 1997, scientists in Scotland introduced that they had efficiently cloned an grownup mammal for the primary time, a sheep they named “Dolly.”
In 1980, the “Miracle on Ice” befell on the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, because the U.S. Olympic hockey staff upset the Soviet Union, 4-3. (The U.S. staff went on to win the gold medal two days later, 4-2, over Finland.)
In 2010, Najibullah Zazi, accused of shopping for merchandise from magnificence provide shops to make bombs for an assault on New York Metropolis subways, pleaded responsible to costs together with conspiring to make use of weapons of mass destruction. (He spent almost a decade after his arrest serving to the U.S. determine and prosecute terrorists and was given a 10-year sentence.)
In 2020, pioneering Black mathematician Katherine Johnson, who calculated rocket trajectories and Earth orbits for NASA’s early house missions and was later portrayed within the 2016 movie “Hidden Figures,” died on the age of 101.
In 2024, a personal lander constructed by Intuitive Machines made the primary U.S. landing on the moon in additional than 50 years, however the spacecraft solely managed a weak sign and spotty communications with flight controllers.
Right now’s birthdays:
- Actor Paul Dooley is 98.
- Actor James Hong is 97.
- Actor Julie Walters is 76.
- Basketball Corridor of Famer Julius Erving is 76.
- Golf Corridor of Famer Amy Alcott is 70.
- Actor Kyle MacLachlan is 67.
- Golf Corridor of Famer Vijay Singh is 63.
- Hockey Corridor of Famer Pat LaFontaine is 61.
- Actor Paul Lieberstein (TV: “The Workplace) is 59.
- Actor Jeri Ryan is 58.
- Actor-singer Lea Salonga is 55.
- Tennis Corridor of Famer Michael Chang is 54.
- Singer James Blunt is 52.
- Actor Drew Barrymore is 51.
- Comic Iliza Shlesinger is 43.
- Dancer and singer Genneya Walton is 27.
- Rapper Molly Brazy is 27.