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February 22.

1632. Galileo publishes Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, discussing the Copernican versus the Ptolemiac systems. This ends up on the Vatican's forbidden books list and, less publicly known, as a result, so did everything Galileo had written or would ever write.

1942. President Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur to leave the Philllipines.

1980. The "Miracle on Ice" occurs at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

1994. CIA employee Aldrich Ames is charged with spying for the Soviet Union. An analyst in the CIA's Europe Division/Counterintelligence branch, he had high level access to information relating to US agents spying against the Soviets. His leaks were believed to result in comrpomising over 100 US agents, and resulting in the execution of at least 10. Unfortunate and stunning was teh CIA's complete ignorance in not noticing that he had bought a half million dollar home in Virginia with no mortgage, and was driving a Jaguar, and wore tailored-freaking suits to WORK on his relatively modest $60,000 CIA salary. Altogther, Ames was paid $4.6 million by the Soviets.

Recruitment of new Soviet agents also came to almost a complete halt by 1990.

By the early 1990s, unable to identify the mole that they by now knew they had, the CIA swallowed their pride and turned to the FBI to help ferret out the mole. The FBI quickly identifed Ames as a prime suspect, and watched him closely. When Ames was scheduled to visit Moscow on official duty in 1994, the FBI, concerned that he would defect, moved in and made the arrest.

To this day, there is a balance of over $2 million in a Soviet bank account held for Ames' benefit. The Soviets refuse to provide information relating to the bank account to American authorities, asserting that the money was earned and belongs to Ames. It is unclear how he or his heirs will inherit.