Actually, President Washington was born in Virginia on 11 February, under the Julian calendar. (11 February is a rather felicitous date, by the way.) Twenty years later, the Western world adopted the Gregorian calendar, the better to approximate the sun's cycles, and 11 Feb became 22 Feb.And, therefore, . . . oh, never mind. If you're interested, you can Google it.
Celebrate!
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I didn't realize...!
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