The U.S. team takes the gold medal in the first Olympic women's ice hockey competition.
1865: After a siege that lasted almost a year and a half, Confederates evacuate Fort Sumter in South Carolina, leaving it for the Union to retake.
SOURCES: CHASE'S CALENDAR OF EVENTS; WORLD ALMANAC
WEEKLY CALENDAR OF UPCOMING NATIONAL EVENTS
Tomorrow
Presidents Day
President Bush and first lady Laura Bush visit Tanzania
Tuesday
Republican and Democratic primaries in Washington and Wisconsin. Democratic caucus in Hawaii.
Wednesday
Cape Canaveral, Fla. – Space shuttle Atlantis scheduled to land in Florida.
Las Vegas – Bette Midler's “The Showgirl Must Go On” premieres at Caesars Palace.
U-T QUOTE OF THE DAY
ARTS, E3: “I am fascinated with science, but more with the Einstein side of it, his thought experiments, how he came up with theories that no else had thought of.”
– Artist LAEL CORBIN, talking about his current show, “Research”
