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What Happened on February 22nd?  
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Watching those cars race around the track in Daytona Beach Florida is only one tradition which began today.February 22 is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 312 days remaining, 313 in leap years. It is Washington's Birthday, honoring the first president of the United States.

	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.
	1865: Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery.
	1889: President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
	1923: The United States begins the first transcontinental air mail route.
	1949: Grady the Cow, a 1,200-pound cow gets stuck inside a silo on a farm in Yukon, Oklahoma and garners national media attention.
	1956: Elvis Presley enters the music charts for the first time, with "Heartbreak Hotel".
	1959: Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
	1969: The last time all four Beatles were together for a recording session.
	1974: Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
	1980: The United States ice hockey team defeats the Soviet Union team at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in an upset dubbed the "Miracle on Ice".
	1997: In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
	2006: At least six men stage Britain's biggest ever robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

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