FEBRUARY 19
2002:Vonetta Flowers becomes the first African American to win a Winter Olympics gold medal after she and a teammate win the bobsledding event.
1942: President Franklin Roosevelt authorizes the military to relocate 117,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast.
1945: U.S. troops land on Iwo Jima and begin an intense, month-long battle against Japanese soldiers.
1942: President Franklin Roosevelt authorizes the military to relocate 117,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast.
1945: U.S. troops land on Iwo Jima and begin an intense, month-long battle against Japanese soldiers.
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