"Today is Sunday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 2026. There are 312 days left in the year. Today in history: On Feb. 22, 2022, three white men were convicted of federal hate crimes in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, who was jogging through their neighborhood near Brunswick, Georgia, when he was attacked in 2020. (The men are serving life sentences after being convicted of murder in state court.)"
"Also on this date: In 1732, the first president of the United States, George Washington, was born in Westmoreland County in the Virginia Colony. In 1784, a U.S. merchant ship, the Empress of China, left New York for the first trade voyage of an American ship to China. In 1819, a weakened Spain, facing revolutions in Latin America, signed a treaty ceding Florida to the United States."
Today is Sunday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 2026, with 312 days remaining. On Feb. 22, 2022, three white men were convicted of federal hate crimes for killing Ahmaud Arbery and are serving life sentences. George Washington was born in 1732. In 1784 the Empress of China departed New York on the first American voyage to China; Spain ceded Florida in 1819. Jefferson Davis began a Confederate presidency in 1862. Scientists announced cloning of Dolly in 1997. The Miracle on Ice saw the U.S. upset the Soviet Union in 1980. Najibullah Zazi pleaded guilty in 2010 to charges including conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction.
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