Right now is Wednesday, Feb. 22, the 53rd working day of 2023. There are 312 times still left in the year.
Modern Highlight in Record:
On Feb. 22, 2021, the range of U.S. deaths from COVID-19 topped 500,000, in accordance to Johns Hopkins College.
On this day:
In 1630, English colonists in the Massachusetts Bay Colony initially sampled popcorn brought to them by a Indigenous American named Quadequina for their Thanksgiving celebration.
In 1732, the 1st president of the United States, George Washington, was born in Westmoreland County in the Virginia Colony.
In 1784, a U.S. merchant ship, the Empress of China, still left New York for the Far East to trade products with China.
In 1935, it turned unlawful for airplanes to fly around the White Property.
In 1959, the inaugural Daytona 500 race was held whilst Johnny Beauchamp was at first declared the winner, the victory was later on awarded to Lee Petty.
In 1967, far more than 25,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, aimed at smashing a Vietcong stronghold around the Cambodian border. (Though the communists ended up driven out, they afterwards returned.)
In 1980, the “Miracle on Ice” took spot in Lake Placid, New York, as the United States Olympic hockey staff upset the Soviets, 4-3. (The U.S. workforce went on to get the gold medal.)
In 1987, pop artist Andy Warhol died at a New York Town hospital at age 58.
In 1997, researchers in Scotland announced they had succeeded in cloning an grownup mammal, making a lamb named “Dolly.” (Dolly, nevertheless, was later on put down after a small life marred by premature getting old and ailment.)
In 2010, Najibullah Zazi (nah-jee-BOO’-lah ZAH’-zee), accused of shopping for splendor provides to make bombs for an assault on New York City subways, pleaded responsible to charges which includes conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction. (Zazi confronted up to daily life in jail but spent approximately a decade immediately after his arrest encouraging the U.S. detect and prosecute terrorists he was offered a 10-12 months sentence followed by supervised launch.)
In 2016, the Town Council of Charlotte, North Carolina, voted 7-4 to go a new law making it possible for transgender men and women to choose general public bathrooms that corresponded to their gender identity.
In 2020, Bernie Sanders scored a resounding win in Nevada’s presidential caucuses, cementing his position as the Democrats’ front-runner.
10 decades ago: The Justice Office joined a lawsuit versus disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong alleging the former seven-time Tour de France winner had hid his use of general performance-improving medicines and defrauded his longtime sponsor, the U.S. Postal Services.
5 yrs ago: Defying his supporters in the National Rifle Affiliation, President Donald Trump claimed the nation should continue to keep assault rifles out of the fingers of anybody beneath 21. Authorities announced that the armed officer who was on obligation at the Parkland, Florida college exactly where a shooter killed 17 people under no circumstances went into the making to interact the gunman. The U.S. women’s hockey team gained the gold medal at the Wintertime Olympics in South Korea, beating Canada 3-2 following a shootout tiebreaker.
One 12 months ago: The East-West faceoff about Ukraine escalated considerably, with Russian lawmakers authorizing President Vladimir Putin to use navy pressure exterior his region and U.S. President Joe Biden and European leaders responding by slapping sanctions on Russian oligarchs and banking companies. (Russia would invade Ukraine two days later on.) In Ga, the a few white guys convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery’s lethal capturing are observed responsible of federal hate crimes for violating Arbery’s civil rights and targeting him simply because he was Black. U.S. women soccer gamers arrived at a landmark arrangement with the sport’s American governing human body to finish a six-12 months lawful struggle over equal spend.
Present-day birthdays: Actor Paul Dooley is 95. Actor James Hong is 94. Actor John Ashton is 75. Actor Miou-Miou is 73. Actor Julie Walters is 73. Basketball Hall of Famer Julius Erving is 73. Actor Ellen Greene is 72. Former Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., is 71. Previous White House adviser David Axelrod is 68. Actor Kyle MacLachlan is 64. World Golf Hall of Famer Vijay Singh is 60. Actor-comic Rachel Dratch is 57. Actor Paul Lieberstein is 56. Actor Jeri Ryan is 55. Actor Thomas Jane is 54. Television set host Clinton Kelly is 54. Actor Tamara Mello is 53. Actor-singer Lea Salonga is 52. Actor Jose Solano is 52. Global Tennis Corridor of Famer Michael Chang is 51. Rock musician Scott Phillips is 50. Singer James Blunt is 49. Actor Drew Barrymore is 48. Actor Liza Huber is 48. Rock singer Tom Higgenson (Plain White T’s) is 44. Rock musician Joe Hottinger (Halestorm) is 41. Actor Zach Roerig is 38.
