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On Feb. 22, 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.) (Go to article.)
On Feb. 22, 1892, Edna St. Vincent Millay, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who personified romantic rebellion, was born. Following her death on Oct. 19, 1950, her obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
On February 22, 1890, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about voting reform. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)
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1732 George Washington, the first president of the United States, was born in the Virginia Colony.
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.
1924 Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House.
1932 Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., was born in Boston, the youngest child of Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy.
1935 It became illegal for airplanes to fly over the White House.
1959 The inaugural Daytona 500 race was held in Daytona Beach, Fla.
1987 Pop artist Andy Warhol died at age 58.
1993 The U.N. Security Council approved creation of an international war crimes tribunal to punish those responsible for atrocities in the former Yugoslavia.
1994 The Justice Department charged 31-year CIA veteran Aldrich Ames and his wife, Rosario, with selling national security secrets to the Soviet Union.
2001 A U.N. war crimes tribunal convicted three Bosnian Serbs on charges of **** and torture in the first case of wartime sexual enslavement to go before an international court.
2002 San Diego police arrested David Westerfield in the disappearance of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam. (Westerfield was later convicted of kidnapping and murder and sentenced to death.)
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.
Current Birthdays
Drew Barrymore turns 35 years old today.
AP Photo/Chris Pizzello Actress Drew Barrymore turns 35 years old today.
92 Don Pardo
TV announcer ("Saturday Night Live")
76 Sparky Anderson
Hall of Fame baseball manager
66 Jonathan Demme
Director
60 Julius Erving
Basketball Hall of Famer
58 Bill Frist
Former Senate majority leader
51 Kyle MacLachlan
Actor ("Twin Peaks")
47 Vijay Singh
Golfer
45 Pat Lafontaine
Hockey Hall of Famer
44 Rachel Dratch
Actress, comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
42 Jeri Ryan
Actress ("Boston Public")
38 Michael Chang
Tennis Hall of Famer
33 James Blunt
Singer
Historic Birthdays
Edna St. Vincent Millay
2/22/1892 - 10/19/1950
American poet and dramatist
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58 Charles VII
2/22/1403 - 7/22/1461
King of France from 1422 to 1461
67 George Washington
2/22/1732 - 12/14/1799
American general and first president of U.S.
82 Rembrandt Peale
2/22/1778 - 10/3/1860
American painter, writer and portraitist
72 Arthur Schopenhauer
2/22/1788 - 9/21/1860
German philosopher
72 James Russell Lowell
2/22/1819 - 8/12/1891
American poet, critic, essayist and diplomat
73 August Bebel
2/22/1840 - 8/13/1913
German co-founder of the Social Democratic Party
77 Bill Klem
2/22/1874 - 9/16/1951
American National League baseball umpire
90 David Dubinsky
2/22/1892 - 9/17/1982
Russian-bn. American labor leader
83 Luis Bunuel
2/22/1900 - 7/29/1983
Spanish director and filmmaker
91 Sean O'Faolain
2/22/1900 - 4/20/1991
Irish short-story writer and teacher
80 Peter Hurd
2/22/1904 - 7/9/1984
American painter, printmaker and illustrator
73 Giulietta Masina
2/22/1921 - 3/23/1994
Italian motion-picture actress
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