At the moment is Saturday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 2025. There are 312 days left within the 12 months.
At the moment in historical past:
On Feb. 22, 1980, the “Miracle on Ice” happened on the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, as the US Olympic hockey group upset the Soviet Union, 4-3. (The U.S. group went on to win the gold medal two days later with a 4-2 victory over Finland.)
Additionally on this date:
In 1732, the primary president of the US, George Washington, was born in Westmoreland County within the Virginia Colony.
In 1784, a U.S. service provider ship, the Empress of China, left New York for the primary commerce voyage of an American ship to China.
In 1959, the inaugural Daytona 500 race was held; though Johnny Beauchamp was initially declared the winner, the victory was later awarded to Lee Petty.
In 1967, greater than 25,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction Metropolis, geared toward smashing a Vietcong stronghold close to the Cambodian border.
In 1997, scientists in Scotland introduced they’d efficiently cloned an grownup mammal for the primary time, a sheep they named “Dolly.”
In 2010, Najibullah Zazi (nah-jee-BOO’-lah ZAH’-zee), accused of shopping for merchandise from magnificence provide shops to make bombs for an assault on New York Metropolis subways, pleaded responsible to expenses together with conspiring to make use of weapons of mass destruction. (Zazi confronted as much as life in jail however spent practically a decade after his arrest serving to the U.S. establish and prosecute terrorists; he was given a 10-year sentence adopted by supervised launch.)
In 2021, the variety of U.S. deaths from COVID-19 topped 500,000, based on Johns Hopkins College.
At the moment’s birthdays:
- Actor Paul Dooley is 97.
- Actor James Hong is 96.
- Actor Julie Walters is 75.
- Basketball Corridor of Famer Julius Erving is 75.
- Golf Corridor of Famer Amy Alcott is 69.
- Actor Kyle MacLachlan is 66.
- Golf Corridor of Famer Vijay Singh is 62.
- Hockey Corridor of Famer Pat LaFontaine is 60.
- Actor-comedian Rachel Dratch is 59.
- Actor Paul Lieberstein (TV: “The Workplace) is 58.
- Actor Jeri Ryan is 57.
- Actor Thomas Jane is 56.
- Actor-singer Lea Salonga is 54.
- Tennis Corridor of Famer Michael Chang is 53.
- Singer James Blunt is 51.
- Actor Drew Barrymore is 50.