On this day :

1980 US hockey team makes miracle on ice, 1777 Archibald Bulloch dies under mysterious circumstances, 1959 Lee Petty wins first Daytona 500, 1864 Battle of West Point Mississippi, 1946 George Kennan sends long telegram to State Department, 2006 Gang commits largest robbery in British history, 2014 Worlds mostwanted drug kingpin is captured in Mexico, 1998 Deadly tornadoes rip through central Florida, 1819 The US acquires Spanish Florida, 1847 Battle of Buena Vista begins, 1967 Suharto takes full power in Indonesia, 1968 Tet Offensive ends, 1975 Actress Drew Barrymore born, 1892 Edna St Vincent Millay is born, 1990 Milli Vanilli win the Best New Artist Grammy, 1918 Montana passes law against sedition, 1732 George Washington is born, 1980 US hockey pulls off Miracle on Ice, 1965 Westmoreland asks for Marines, 1967 Operation Junction City begins, 1917 Mussolini wounded by mortar bomb, 1942 President Roosevelt to MacArthur Get out of the Philippines,