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• On Feb. 21, 1885, the Washington Monument was dedicated.
• On Feb. 22, 1980, the "Miracle on Ice" occurred in Lake Placid, N.Y., as the United States Olympics hockey team upset the Soviets, 4-3.  (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)
• On Feb. 23, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington to take office, following word of a possible assassination plot in Baltimore.
• On Feb. 24, 1868, the House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson following his attempted dismissal of Secertary of War Edwin M. Stanton; Johnson was later acquitted by the Senate.
• On Feb. 25, 1913, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, giving Congress the power to levy and collect income taxes, was declared in effect by Secretary of State Philander Chase Knox.
• On Feb. 26, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile on the island of Elba.
• On Feb. 27, 1960, a day after defeating the Soviets at the Winter Games in Squaw Valley, Calif., the United States won its first Olympic hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia's team, 9-4.
• On March 1, 1954, Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five congressmen.
• On March 2, 1836, the Republic of Texas formally declared its independence from Mexico.
• On March 3, 1931, the United States adopted the "Star Spangled Banner" as its national anthem.
• On March 4, 1908, a fire at Lake View School in Collinwood, Ohio, clamed the lives of 172 children and three adults.
• On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminister College in Fulton, Mo.