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Other Notable Events, February 22

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In 1819, a treaty with Spain ceded Florida to the United States.

In 1855, The Pennsylvania State University was founded in State College, Pa. It was originally called the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania.

In 1862, Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as president of the Confederate States of America.

In 1879, Woolworth, the first chain store, opened in Utica, N.Y.

In 1889, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Washington were admitted into the United States.

In 1959, the Daytona 500 was run for the first time. Lee Petty won the race.

In 1972, U.S. President Richard Nixon arrived in Beijing on a historic visit to China.

In 1973, Israeli fighter planes shot down a Libyan commercial airliner, killing 106 of the 113 people aboard.

In 1980, in one of the most dramatic upsets in Olympic history, the underdog U.S. hockey team, made up of collegians and second-tier professional players, defeated the defending champion Soviet team, regarded as the world's finest, 4-3 at the XIII Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, N.Y.

In 1987, artist Andy Warhol died of heart failure at age 58.

In 1991, Iraq set fire to dozens of oil facilities in occupied Kuwait.

 

In 1993, the U.N. Security Council voted to form an international war crimes tribunal to try those accused of offenses during ethnic fighting in the former Yugoslavia.

In 2004, rebels attacked a refugee camp in northern Uganda, killing at least 192 people.

In 2005, a powerful earthquake struck Iran, killing more than 500 people.

In 2006, a terrorist attack destroyed the golden dome atop the most revered Shiite shrine in Iraq, the al-Askari Mosque in Samara, touching off sectarian violence.

In 2009, more than 70 fatalities were reported in the explosion of a coal mine in northern China. There were 113 known survivors in the blast near Qujiad City.

In 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama announced his plan for a healthcare reform bill.

Also in 2010, a U.S. airstrike targeting insurgents in Kabul, Afghanistan, was reported to have accidentally killed 27 Afghan civilians.

In 2011, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake severely damaged Christchurch, New Zealand's second largest city, killing a reported 184 people and injuring as many as 2,000. The quake struck less than six months after a stronger tremor shook the same area.

In 2012, a 12.76-carat pink diamond, said to be the largest ever discovered in that country, was unearthed in Western Australia. It was expected to sell for more than $10 million.


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