Moments in Time: First women's hockey gold medal
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On Feb. 17, 1998, the United States defeated Canada by 3-1 to take home the gold medal in the first women's hockey tournament held at the Winter Olympics, in Nagano, Japan.
On Feb. 18, 2003, Kim Daehan ignited a gasoline-filled container inside a subway train in Daegu, South Korea. The resulting blaze engulfed the six-car train and spread to another that pulled into the station minutes later, killing 198 people and injuring nearly 150 more. Daehan later confessed to police that he'd wanted to commit suicide and chose a crowded place to do so because he didn't wish to die alone.
On Feb. 19, 1777, the Continental Congress voted to promote Thomas Mifflin; Arthur St. Clair; William Alexander, Lord Stirling; Adam Stephen; and Benjamin Lincoln to the rank of major general, leaving Brigadier General Benedict Arnold feeling slighted that five junior officers received advancement ahead of him and, in response, threatening to resign from the Patriot army.
On Feb. 20, 1939, New York City's Madison Square Garden hosted a rally celebrating the rise of Nazism in Germany. Inside, more than 20,000 attendees raised Nazi salutes toward a 30-foot-tall portrait of George Washington flanked by swastikas, while police and some 100,000 protesters gathered outside.
On Feb. 21, 1862, at the Battle of Valverde, Confederate troops attacked Union troops near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory in the first major engagement of the Civil War in the far West. The fighting yielded heavy casualties but no decisive result.
On Feb. 22, 2006, a gang of at least six men, some armed, made off with 53 million pounds from the Securitas bank depot in Kent, Great Britain -- the largest such theft in British history.
On Feb. 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was shot to death by a white father and son while jogging in Georgia. William Bryan, who filmed the shooting on his phone, was arrested and charged with felony murder and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment, while Gregory and Travis McMichael were arrested on charges of murder and aggravated assault, after Bryan's video of the killing was released.
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