On This Day (February 22)

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1295 BCE - The coronation of Ramses II, on whose face the sun's rays fall each year in Abu Simbel temple.
1819 – By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sold Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
1857 - Heinrich Hertz, German physicist born. (d. 1894) (In 1888, he was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves by building an apparatus to produce and detect VHF or UHF radio waves.)
1878 - Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist born. (d. 1909) (Invented the Ritz caracker.)
1943 – Members of the White Rose Society were found guilty of treason and guillotined by the Nazi regime in Germany.
1980 – At the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, USA, the United States ice hockey team defeated the Soviet Union in an unlikely victory that became known as the Miracle on Ice.
1986 – The People Power Revolution, a series of nonviolent mass street demonstrations in the Philippines against the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos, began.
1997 – Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the birth of a cloned sheep named Dolly (pictured) seven months after the fact.

Dolly