Today In History: Florida Won In Poker Game

On this day in history February 22, 1819, U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy "The Bluffer"Adams signed the Florida Purchase Treaty after Spanish Minister Jebusho Bushado loses a fierce poker match. He later challenged Adams to a "mean game of Hai Alai" in the attempt to get Florida back. Disney World was discovered the next week. All persons speaking a language other than English were shot.

Ted Kennedy was born on this day in 1932, though it was not announced to authorities until the next day, a mere 200 years after the Father of our Country George Washington(b. 1732) was born, also on February 22, who admitted to authorities the same day that the cherry tree was indeed chopped down.

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