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February 25, 1964 – 22-year-old Cassius Clay shocks the odds-makers by dethroning world heavyweight boxing champ Sonny Liston in a seventh-round technical knockout. Clay predicted victory, boasting that he would “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”

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February 24, 1940 – Frances Langford recorded “When You Wish Upon a Star.”

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February 23, 1940 – Folk singer Woody Guthrie writes one of his best-known songs, “This Land is Your Land.”

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February 22, 1980 – The Miracle On Ice. In one of the most dramatic upsets in Olympic history, the underdog U.S. hockey team, made up of college players, defeats the four-time defending gold-medal winning Soviet team at the XIII Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York. The Soviet squad, previously regarded as the finest in the world, fell to the youthful American team 4-3 before a frenzied crowd of 10,000 spectators. Two days later, the Americans defeated Finland 4-2 to clinch the hockey gold.

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February 21, 1926 – The glamorous, husky-voiced Swedish actress Greta Garbo, known for her almost unearthly beauty and intense desire for privacy, makes her U.S. screen debut in “The Torrent.”

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February 20, 1998 – 15-year-old Tara Lipinski wins the gold medal in women’s figure skating at the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, and becomes the youngest gold medalist in her sport.

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February 19, 1922 – Ed Wynn became the first big-name, vaudeville talent to sign on as a radio talent.

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February 18, 1959 – ”What’d I Say” was laid down on tape by Ray Charles at the Atlantic Records studios in New York City.

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February 17, 1966 – Brian Wilson rolled tape on take one of “Good Vibrations”. Six months, four studios and $50,000 later, he finally completed his three-minute-and-thirty-nine-second symphony, pieced together from more than 90 hours of tape recorded during literally hundreds of sessions. Wilson’s masterpiece was released as part of the Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds”, that is widely regarded as one of the all-time best albums.

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February 16, 1848 – Eighteen months before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 39, Frédéric Chopin gave his final public performance in his adopted city of Paris. After fleeing his native Poland amid the political unrest of the 1830s, he spent the rest of his life amid the high society of France.

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