TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Feb. 22, 1997

Scientists in Scotland announced they had succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named “Dolly.” ALSO ON THIS DATE

1862

Jefferson Davis, already the provisional president of the Confederacy, was inaugurated for a six-year term following his election in November 1861.

1909

The Great White Fleet, a naval task force sent on a round-the-world voyage by President Theodore Roosevelt, returned after more than a year at sea.

1935

It became illegal for airplanes to fly over the White House.

1965

Former Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, 82, died in Washington D.C.

1967

More than 25,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, aimed at smashing a Vietcong stronghold near the Cambodian border.

1974

Pakistan officially recognized Bangladesh.

1980

The “Miracle on Ice” took place in Lake Placid, New York, as the United States Olympic hockey team upset the Soviets, 4-3.

1984

David Vetter, a 12-year-old Texas boy who’d spent most of his life in a plastic bubble because he had no immunity to disease, died 15 days after being removed from the bubble for a bone-marrow transplant.

1987

Pop artist Andy Warhol died at a New York City hospital at age 58.

2009

“Slumdog Millionaire” won best picture and seven other Academy Awards; the late Heath Ledger won the best supporting actor Oscar for “The Dark Knight.” A gas explosion in a coal mine in northern China killed more than 70 miners.