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February 22 Traditional Cache

Hidden : 2/11/2013
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February 22nd

According to Wikipedia and other sources, on February 22nd:



1732 – George Washington, First President of the United States is born in Westmoreland County, VA.

1819 – By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.

1856 – The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1862 – Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia.

1915 – During World War I, Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.

1980 – Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3 and goes on to win the Gold Medal
by defeating Finland 4-2.

1997 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.

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