On in the intervening time, Feb. 22 …
1980: The “Miracle on Ice” takes characteristic in Lake Placid, N.Y., as the us Olympic hockey team upsets the Soviets, 4-3. (The U.S. team would breeze on to make your mind up on the gold medal.)
Moreover on in the intervening time:
1630: English colonists in the Massachusetts Bay Colony first pattern popcorn dropped at them by a Native American named Quadequina for their Thanksgiving celebration.
1732: The vital president of the us, George Washington, is born in Westmoreland County in the Virginia Colony.
1862: Jefferson Davis, already the provisional president of the Confederacy, is inaugurated for a six-twelve months time duration following his election in November 1861.
1909: The Colossal White Mercurial, a naval project power sent on a spherical-the-world voyage by President Theodore Roosevelt, returns after more than a twelve months at sea.
1935: It becomes illegal for airplanes to hover over the White Home.
1959: The inaugural Daytona 500 flee is held; even supposing Johnny Beauchamp is at the delivery declared the winner, the victory would be awarded to Lee Petty.
1965: Venerable Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter dies in Washington D.C.
1967: Extra than 25,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, geared toward smashing a Vietcong stronghold attain the Cambodian border.
1974: Pakistan officially acknowledges Bangladesh (beforehand East Pakistan).
1984: David Vetter, a 12-twelve months-outdated Texas boy who’d spent most of his life in a plastic bubble due to he had no immunity to illness, dies 15 days after being faraway from the bubble for a bone-marrow transplant.
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1987: Artist Andy Warhol dies at a Unusual York City sanatorium at age 58.
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1997: Scientists in Scotland suppose they succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named “Dolly.” (Dolly, then all yet again, would be put down after a transient life marred by premature rising older and illness.)
2009: “Slumdog Millionaire” wins easiest picture and seven other Academy Awards; the late Heath Ledger wins the finest supporting actor Oscar for “The Sad Knight.”
2014: At the Sochi Olympics, Marit Bjoergen becomes basically the most decorated female Iciness Olympian in historical past, successful her sixth occupation gold medal by main a Norwegian sweep in the ladies americans’s 30-kilometer wicked-country flee.
2018: Defying his supporters in the Nationwide Rifle Affiliation, President Trump says the nation must wait on assault rifles out of the fingers of anybody below 21.
2018: Authorities equipped that the armed officer who used to be on duty on the Parkland, Fla. faculty the put a shooter killed 17 americans by no manner went into the building to expend the gunman.
2018: An infinite jury indicts Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens on a prison charge of invasion of privacy for allegedly taking a compromising picture of a girl with whom he had an affair in 2015; Greitens responds that he made a mistake but committed no crime. (He would resign on June 1 while facing attainable impeachment over allegations of sexual and political misconduct.)
2018: The U.S. ladies americans’s hockey team won the gold medal on the Iciness Olympics in South Korea, beating Canada 3-2 after a shootout tiebreaker.
