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Wednesday, February 22, 2006
This Day In History
A lot of things happened on Feb. 22 throughout history. Frank Winfield Woolworth opened a five-cent store in Utica, N.Y.; George Washington was born; President Grover Cleveland signed a bill to admit the Dakotas, Montana and Washington state to the Union; and Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House. And that's just in American history. But... there's one thing that stands out in the minds of those of us who are old enough to remember it (sorry, Steph): The Miracle on Ice.
“It may just be the single most indelible moment in all of U.S. sports history,” said Sports Illustrated of Team USA's improbable gold medal run at the 1980 Winter Olympics. “One that sent an entire nation into a frenzy.” American hockey came of age on February 22, 1980, when the young Americans took down the mighty Red Machine from the USSR.I think that's when I started to become a hockey fan.
