February 22<\/p>\n
1512 \u2013 Amerigo Vespucci, Italian cartographer, sailor and namesake of the continents of the New World, dies, age 60 in Seville, Spain.<\/p>\n
1732 \u2013\u00a0 George Washington in born in the family home at Popes Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia. The date is celebrated from 1879 until 1971 as a federal holiday.<\/p>\n
1819 \u2013 Under terms of the Adams\u2013On\u00eds Treaty<\/em>, Spain sells Florida to the United States for 5 million dollars.<\/p>\n 1847 \u2013 In the Mexican\u2013American War’s Battle of Buena Vista, 5000 American troops under the command of General Zachary Taylor, defeat 15,000 Mexican troops under the command of General Antonio L\u00f3pez de Santa Anna (yes of Alamo and San Jacinto notoriety)<\/p>\n 1856 \u2013 The Republican Party opens its first national convention in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n 1862 \u2013 Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a 6 year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.<\/p>\n 1872 \u2013 The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.<\/p>\n 1878 \u2013 In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.<\/p>\n 1881 \u2013 Cleopatra’s Needle, a 3,500-year-old Ancient Egyptian obelisk, relocated from the ruins of the\u00a0Caesareum temple of Alexandria is erected in Central Park, New York.<\/p>\n 1889 \u2013 President Grover Cleveland signs into law a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.<\/p>\n 1901 \u2013 The Pacific Mail Company’s steamer City of Rio de Janeiro<\/em> strikes a rock hidden by dense fog in Golden Gate harbor and quickly sinks, with the loss of 122 of the 201 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 1909 \u2013 The 16 battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut<\/em>, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 As Japanese victory becomes inevitable in the Philippines, President Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur to evacuate to Australia.<\/p>\n 1959 \u2013 Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500 stock car race.<\/p>\n 1974 \u2013Reportedly inspired by the news reports of the buzzing of the White House by U.S. Army soldier Robert K. Preston in a stolen helicopter on February 17; Samuel Byck attempts to hijack a Delta Air Lines DC-9 jet at Baltimore\/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to assassinate President Nixon, but commits suicide aboard the aircraft after being shot and wounded by police.<\/p>\n 1980 \u2013 In Lake Placid, New York, the United States Olympic hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4\u20133.<\/p>\n 1994 \u2013 CIA officer Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged with spying for the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n 1997 \u2013 In Roslin, Midlothian, British scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.<\/p>\n 2006 \u2013 An unknown party at the time detonates 2 bombs at the Shite al-Askari Shrine in Samara, Iraq causing extensive damage, but no casualties, which incites a full on civil war between the U.S. backed Iraqi government and forces of Al Qaida and the Mahdi Army lasting over 2 years.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2013 A Serbian man throws a grenade at the U.S embassy in Podgorica, Montenegro then detonates a suicide vest, managing to kill only himself and not even wound anyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 22 1512 \u2013 Amerigo Vespucci, Italian cartographer, sailor and namesake of the continents of the New World, dies, age 60 in Seville, Spain. 1732 \u2013\u00a0 George Washington in born in the family home at Popes Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia. 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