1 of 5 | Members of Group USA take a selfie after their gold medal victory over Group Canada within the Girls’s Ice Hockey finals on the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics within the Gangneung Hockey Centre in Gangneung, South Korea, on February 22, 2018. File Picture by Richard Ellis/UPI | License Photo
Feb. 22 (UPI) — On this date in historical past:
In 1819, a treaty with Spain ceded Florida to the US.
In 1855, Pennsylvania State College was based in State School, Pa. It was initially referred to as the Farmers’ Excessive College of Pennsylvania.
In 1862, Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as president of the Accomplice States of America.
In 1879, Woolworth, the primary chain retailer, opened in Utica, N.Y.
In 1959, the Daytona 500 was run for the primary time. Lee Petty won the race.
In 1973, Israeli fighter planes shot down a Libyan industrial airliner, killing 108 of the 113 individuals aboard. The army apparently believed the airliner was a safety risk in Israeli-controlled airspace. Israel’s protection minister later stated there was an “error in judgment” by the army. Israel paid reparations to the households of the victims.
In 1980, in probably the most dramatic upsets in Olympics historical past, the underdog U.S. hockey staff, made up of collegians and second-tier skilled gamers, defeated the defending champion Soviet staff, thought to be the world’s most interesting, 4-3, on the Winter Video games in Lake Placid, N.Y.
In 1987, artist Andy Warhol died of heart failure at age 58.
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In 1998, a series of tornadoes raked central Florida, killing 42 individuals and injuring greater than 200 others.
In 2005, a powerful earthquake struck Iran, killing greater than 500 individuals.
In 2006, robbers took greater than $43 million in cash from the Securitas financial institution depot in Kent, England, Britain’s largest ever theft.
In 2011, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake severely broken Christchurch, New Zealand’s second largest metropolis, killing 185 individuals and injuring as much as 2,000.
In 2012, a commuter prepare plowed right into a barrier at a Buenos Aires station, killing 49 people and injuring hundreds extra.
In 2014, Ukraine’s Parliament ousted President Viktor Yanukovych following a interval of violence that killed scores of individuals.
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In 2018, the U.S. girls’s ice hockey staff won the Olympic gold medal for the primary time in 20 years with a 4-3 victory over Canada within the Pyeongchang, South Korea, Video games.
In 2018, President Donald Trump signed a legislation making the Gateway Arch in St. Louis a nationwide park.
In 2022, all three white males convicted of homicide within the loss of life of Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia had been again found guilty, this time on federal hate crime expenses.
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