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News & Politics - On This Day (February 22) 
MSFixR says: 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-Onνs 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 Original post: On This Day (February 22) |
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