1 of 5 | Members of Crew USA take a selfie after their gold medal victory over Crew Canada within the Ladies’s Ice Hockey finals on the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics within the Gangneung Hockey Centre in Gangneung, South Korea, on February 22, 2018. File Picture by Richard Ellis/UPI | License Picture

Feb. 22 (UPI) — On this date in historical past:

In 1819, a treaty with Spain ceded Florida to the USA.

In 1855, Pennsylvania State College was based in State Faculty, Pa. It was initially referred to as the Farmers’ Excessive College of Pennsylvania.

In 1862, Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as president of the Accomplice States of America.

In 1879, Woolworth, the primary chain retailer, opened in Utica, N.Y.

In 1959, the Daytona 500 was run for the primary time. Lee Petty received the race.

In 1973, Israeli fighter planes shot down a Libyan business airliner, killing 108 of the 113 folks aboard. The navy apparently believed the airliner was a safety menace in Israeli-controlled airspace. Israel’s protection minister later stated there was an “error in judgment” by the navy. Israel paid reparations to the households of the victims.

In 1980, in one of the dramatic upsets in Olympics historical past, the underdog U.S. hockey staff, made up of collegians and second-tier skilled gamers, defeated the defending champion Soviet staff, considered the world’s most interesting, 4-3, on the Winter Video games in Lake Placid, N.Y.

In 1987, artist Andy Warhol died of coronary heart failure at age 58.

In 1998, a sequence of tornadoes raked central Florida, killing 42 folks and injuring greater than 200 others.

In 2005, a robust earthquake struck Iran, killing greater than 500 folks.

In 2006, robbers took greater than $43 million in money from the Securitas financial institution depot in Kent, England, Britain’s largest ever theft.

In 2011, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake severely broken Christchurch, New Zealand’s second largest metropolis, killing 185 folks and injuring as much as 2,000.

In 2012, a commuter practice plowed right into a barrier at a Buenos Aires station, killing 49 folks and injuring tons of extra.

In 2014, Ukraine’s Parliament ousted President Viktor Yanukovych following a interval of violence that killed scores of individuals.

In 2018, the U.S. ladies’s ice hockey staff received the Olympic gold medal for the primary time in 20 years with a 4-3 victory over Canada within the Pyeongchang, South Korea, Video games.

In 2018, President Donald Trump signed a regulation making the Gateway Arch in St. Louis a nationwide park.

In 2022, all three white males convicted of homicide within the dying of Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia have been once more discovered responsible, this time on federal hate crime fees.