CHICKEN BUCKETS: TODAY IN HISTORY

Saturday, February 22, 2014

TODAY IN HISTORY

Saturday, February 22, 2014

AP Highlight in History:
On Feb. 22, 1732, George Washington, the first president of the United States, was born in the Virginia Colony.

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On this date in:

1819

Spain ceded Florida to the United States.

1862

Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as president of the Confederacy.

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.

1980

The U.S. hockey team beat the Soviets 4-3 In a stunning upset at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y.

ABC announcer Al Michaels calls the final seconds of the game.

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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.

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.