That might be, but such records have only been available for a relatively short time, climatologically speaking, and that low pressure doesn't come close to the Pacific record of about 870 millibars.
No Pacific storm of that strength is ever likely to come close to hitting the continental United States, so why would you expect Americans to care? It gets colder in Siberia than it does in North Dakota in winter, but that doesn't make record cold in that state any less noteworthy when it happens.