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2026-02-22

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Johnny Gaudreau
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Johnny Gaudreau

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John Michael Gaudreau was an American professional ice hockey player. A winger, he played 11 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played college ice hockey for the Boston College Eagles in NCAA Division I for three seasons beginning in 2011 and was selected in the fourth round, 104th overall, by the Calgary …

Jack Hughes
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Jack Hughes
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Jack Rowden Hughes is an American professional ice hockey player who is a center and alternate captain for the New Jerse…

Rondale Moore
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Rondale Moore
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Rondale DaSean Moore was an American professional football wide receiver. He played college football for the Purdue Boil…

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On This Day

10 events
2019
North_Korean_Embassy_in_Madrid_incident
A group broke into the North Korean embassy in Madrid, Spain, and stole several mobile telephones and digital storage devices.
2012
2012_Buenos_Aires_rail_disaster
A train failed to apply its brakes and crashed through a buffer stop at Once railway station in Buenos Aires, resulting in 51 deaths and more than 700 injuries.
2011
2011_Christchurch_earthquake
An earthquake registering 6.3 ML struck Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 185 people and causing around NZ$40 billion in damage.
2011
2011_Bahraini_uprising
Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people marched in protest in Manama against the deaths of seven people killed by police and army forces during previous protests.
2006
Securitas_depot_robbery
Seven men staged the largest cash robbery in Britain at a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom.
1998
Cherry-throated_tanager
The cherry-throated tanager, a critically endangered bird which had not been definitively sighted in over a century, was rediscovered in Conceição do Castelo, Brazil.
1997
Roslin_Institute
Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the existence of Dolly, a female sheep who was the first mammal to have successfully been cloned from an adult cell.
1983
Moose_Murders
The play Moose Murders opened and closed on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, becoming the standard of "awfulness" against which all Broadway failures are judged.
1980
1980_Winter_Olympics
At the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United States ice hockey team defeated the Soviet team in an unlikely victory that became known as the Miracle on Ice.
1974
Samuel_Byck
Samuel Byck attempted to hijack an aircraft at Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to assassinate U.S. president Richard Nixon, but he was stopped by police.

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