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Wednesday, February 22th 2012
Today is the 53rd day of 2012. There are 312 days left in this year.
What Happened On This Day In History?
| 1784 |
A U.S. merchant ship, the "Empress of China," left New York City for the Far East. |
| 1819 |
Spain ceded Florida to the United States. |
| 1865 |
Tennessee adopted a new constitution abolishing slavery. |
| 1879 |
Frank Winfield Woolworth opened a five-cent store in Utica, N.Y. |
| 1889 |
President Cleveland signed a bill to admit the Dakotas, Montana and Washington state to the Union. |
| 1892 |
"Lady Windermere's Fan," by Oscar Wilde, was first performed, at London's St. James' Theater. |
| 1924 |
Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House. |
| 1973 |
The United States and Communist China agreed to establish liaison offices. |
| 1980 |
In a stunning upset, the United States Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets at Lake Placid, N.Y., 4-to-3. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.) |
| 1990 |
Former President Reagan's videotaped testimony for the trial of former national security adviser John Poindexter was released in Washington; in his deposition, Reagan said he never had "any inkling" his aides were secretly arming the Nicaraguan Contras. |
| 1994 |
The Justice Department charged 31-year CIA veteran Aldrich Ames and his wife, Rosario, with selling national security secrets to the Soviet Union. (Ames was later sentenced to life in prison; his wife received a 5-year term.) |
| 2006 |
Insurgents destroyed the golden dome of one of Iraq's holiest Shiite shrines, the Askariya mosque in Samarra, setting off a spasm of sectarian violence. |
| 2001 |
A U.N. war crimes tribunal convicted three Bosnian Serbs on charges of rape and torture in the first case of wartime sexual enslavement to go before an international court. |
Born on this day
| 1972 |
Michael Chang, Tennis Hall of Famer. |
| 1965 |
Pat Lafontaine, Hockey Hall of Famer. |
| 1950 |
Julius Erving, Basketball Hall of Famer. |
| 1918 |
Don Pardo, TV announcer. |
| 1892 |
Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet and dramatist. |
| 1732 |
George Washington, American general and first president of U.S. |
| 1778 |
Rembrandt Peale, American painter, writer and portraitist. |
| 1819 |
James Russell Lowell, American poet, critic, essayist and diplomat. |
| 1892 |
David Dubinsky, Russian-born American labor leader |
Died on this day
| 1987 |
Pop artist Andy Warhol died in a New York City hospital at age 58. |
| 1998 |
Abraham A. Ribicoff, the former Connecticut governor and senator who served as President Kennedy's secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, died in Riverdale, N.Y., at age 87. |
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