ROSS SIMPSON

Iraqi insurgents destroyed a Shite shrine’s golden dome on this day
in 2006.

The "Miracle on Ice" refers to a medal-round game during the men’s
ice hockey tournament at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid,
New York on this day in 1980.  It was played between the hosting
United States, and the defending gold medalists, the Soviet Union.

It was on this day in 1987.

Andy Warhol (Andrew Warhola)
(August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987)

Warhol died in Manhattan at 6:32 a.m. on February 22, 1987
at age 58. According to news reports, he had been making
a good recovery from gallbladder surgery at New York
Hospital before dying in his sleep from a sudden post-
operative irregular heartbeat.