On this day …
February 22, 2015
- In 1819, the United States completed a deal to purchase Florida from Spain for $5 million through the Adams-Onis Treaty.
- In 1856, the Republican Party opened its first national meeting in Pittsburgh.
- In 1879, Frank Woolworth opened the first of his many discount stores, in Utica, N.Y.
- In 1889, President Grover Cleveland signed a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington into the Union.
- In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge became the first president to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
- In 1958, Egypt and Syria joined together to become the United Arab Republic.
- In 1959, Lee Petty won the first Daytona 500.
- In 1980, the U.S. hockey team defeated the Soviet Union 4-3 in the famous “Miracle on Ice” game in the Olympics at Lake Placid, N.Y.
- In 1997, scientists in Scotland announced they had cloned a sheep named Dolly.
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