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February 20
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February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar. There are 314 days remaining, 315 in
leap years.
Events
*
1472 -
Orkney and
Shetland are returned by
Norway to
Scotland, due to a defaulted
dowry payment.
*
1547 -
Edward VI of England is crowned
King of England at
Westminster Abbey.
*
1724 - The premiere of ''
Giulio Cesare'', an
Italian language Italian opera by
George Frideric Handel, takes place in
London.
*
1725 - The first reported case of white men
scalping Native American (US) Native Americans takes place in
New Hampshire colony.
*
1792 - The
Postal Service Act, establishing the
United States Postal Service United States Post Office Department, is signed by President
George Washington.
*
1810 -
Andreas Hofer,
Tyrolean
patriot and leader of
rebellion against
Napoleon I of France Napoleon's forces, was
execution (legal) executed.
*
1816 -
Gioachino Rossini's ''
The Barber of Seville'' debuts at
Largo di Torre Argentina Teatro Argentina, with a ''fiasco''.
*
1835 -
Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an
earthquake
*
1864 -
Battle of Olustee
*
1872 - In
New York City the
Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
*
1873 - The
University of California opens its first
medical school in
San Francisco, California.
*
1901 - The legislature of
Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
*
1913 -
King O'Malley drives in the first
Surveying survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of
Canberra.
*
1921 - The film ''
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (movie) The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse'', starring
Rudolph Valentino, premieres.
*
1931 -
California gets the go-ahead by the
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress to build the
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
*
1942 - Lieutenant
Edward O'Hare becomes America's first
World War II flying ace.
*
1943 - American
movie studio executives agree to allow the
Office of War Information to
Censorship censor movies.
* 1943 - The
ParicutÃn volcano begins to form in ParicutÃn, México.
*
1944 -
World War II: "Big Week" begins with American bomber raids on
Nazism Nazi aircraft manufacturing centers.
* 1944 -
World War II: The
United States takes
Eniwetok Island.
*
1952 -
Emmett L. Ashford becomes the first
African-American umpire in organized
baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the
Southwestern International League.
* 1952 - The film ''
The African Queen'' opens at the Capitol Theatre in
New York City.
*
1959 - The
Avro Arrow programme to design and manufacture
supersonic fighter aircraft jet fighters in
Canada is cancelled by the
John George Diefenbaker Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
*
1962 -
Mercury program: While aboard
Mercury Atlas 6 Friendship 7,
John Glenn orbits the
earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes, becoming the first American to orbit the
earth.
*
1965 -
Ranger 8 crashes into the
moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the
Apollo program astronauts.
*
1976 - The
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
*
1987 -
Unabomber: In
Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Lake City, in the
United States USA, a bomb explodes in a
computer store.
*
1991 - A gigantic statue of
Albania's long-time dictator,
Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the Albanian capital,
Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters.
*
1992 -
Ross Perot announces his intention to run in the
U.S. presidential election, 1992 1992 U.S. presidential election on
CNN's ''
Larry King Live''.
* 1992 - The
FA Premier League is formed and takes over as the professional league in
England from season
FA Premier League 1992-93 1992–93.
*
1998 - American figure skater
Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the
Winter Olympics in
Nagano,
Japan.
*
2001 -
FBI agent
Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with
spying for
Russia for 15 years.
*
2002 - In
Reqa Al-Gharbiya,
Egypt, a fire on a
train injures over 65 and kills at least 370.
*
2003 - In
Rhode Island, in the
United States USA,
The Station nightclub fire kills about 100 and injures over 200.
*
2005 -
Spain becomes the first country to vote in a
Spanish referendum on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe referendum on ratification of the
Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe proposed Constitution of the
European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
Births
*
1631 -
Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (d.
1712)
*
1745 -
Henry James Pye, English poet (d.
1813)
*
1751 -
Johann Heinrich Voss Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (d.
1826)
*
1753 -
Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d.
1815)
*
1757 -
John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist (d.
1834)
*
1794 -
William Carleton, Irish novelist (d.
1869)
*
1819 -
Alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (d.
1882)
*
1839 -
Benjamin Waugh, American minister and founder of the NSPCC (d.
1908)
*
1844 -
Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (d.
1906)
* 1844 -
Joshua Slocum, Canadian seaman and adventurer (d.
1909)
*
1848 -
Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad executive (d.
1909)
*
1887 -
Vincent Massey,
Governor-General of Canada (d.
1967)
*
1888 -
Georges Bernanos, French writer (d.
1948)
*
1893 -
Russel Crouse, American playwright (d.
1966)
*
1901 -
Muhammad Naguib,
President of Egypt (d.
1984)
*
1902 -
Ansel Adams, American photographer (d.
1984)
*
1904 -
Alexei Kosygin,
Premier of the Soviet Union (d.
1980)
*
1912 -
Pierre Boulle, French author (d.
1994)
*
1914 -
John Charles Daly John Daly, South African-born broadcaster (d.
2001)
*
1923 -
Forbes Burnham,
President of Guyana (d.
1985)
*
1924 -
Gloria Vanderbilt, American clothing designer and entrepreneur
*
1925 -
Robert Altman, American film director
* 1925 -
Heinz Kluncker, German labor union leader
*
1926 -
Richard Matheson, American author
*
1927 -
Roy Cohn, American lawyer, and anti-Communist (d.
1986)
* 1927 -
Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (
Buena Vista Social Club) (d.
2005)
* 1927 -
Sidney Poitier, American actor
*
1931 -
Amanda Blake, American actress (d.
1989)
*
1934 -
Bobby Unser, American race car driver
*
1936 -
Marj Dusay, American actress
* 1936 -
Larry Hovis, American actor (d.
2003)
*
1937 -
Robert Huber, German chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate
* 1937 -
Roger Penske, American race car driver
* 1937 -
Nancy Wilson (singer) Nancy Wilson, American singer
*
1938 -
Richard Beymer, American actor
*
1941 -
Buffy Sainte-Marie, American singer
*
1942 -
Phil Esposito, Canadian hockey player
*
1943 -
Mike Leigh, British film director
* 1943 -
Antonio Inoki, Japanese professional wrestler
*
1944 -
Willem van Hanegem, Dutch footballer and coach
*
1945 -
Brion James, American actor (d.
1999)
*
1946 -
Brenda Blethyn, English actress
* 1946 -
Sandy Duncan, American singer and actress
* 1946 -
John Geils, Jr., American guitarist (
J. Geils Band)
*
1947 -
Peter Osgood, English footballer
* 1947 -
Peter Strauss, American actor
*
1948 -
Jennifer O'Neill, Brazilian-born actress
*
1949 -
Ivana Trump, Czech skier, model and socialite
*
1950 -
Ken Shimura, Japanese television performer and actor
* 1950 -
Walter Becker, American jazz-rock guitarist (
Steely Dan)
*
1951 -
Edward Albert, American actor
* 1951 -
Gordon Brown, British politician
* 1951 -
Randy California, guitarist (
Spirit (band) Spirit) (d.
1997)
*
1954 -
Anthony Stewart Head, English actor
* 1954 -
Patty Hearst, American socialite and kidnapping victim
* 1954 -
Jon Brant, American musician (
Cheap Trick)
*
1960 -
Joel Hodgson, American comedian, creator of ''
Mystery Science Theater 3000''
*
1963 -
Charles Barkley, American basketball player
* 1963 -
Ian Brown, British singer (
Stone Roses)
*
1966 -
Cindy Crawford, American model
*
1967 -
Kurt Cobain, American musician (
Nirvana) (d.
1994)
* 1967 -
Lili Taylor, American actress
*
1971 -
Jari Litmanen, Finnish footballer
*
1972 -
Brent Gretzky, Canadian
hockey player; brother of
Wayne Gretzky
*
1975 -
Gail Kim, Wrestler
* 1975 -
Brian Littrell, American musician (
Backstreet Boys)
*
1976 -
Ed Graham, British drummer (
The Darkness)
*
1977 -
Stephon Marbury, American basketball player
* 1977 -
T.J. Slaughter, American football player
*
1978 -
Julia Jentsch, German actress
*
1978 -
Tony Sun, Taiwanese Musician (
5566)
*
1980 -
Imanol Harinordoquy, French rugby player
*
1981 -
Tony Hibbert, English footballer
* 1981 -
Chris Thile, musician
*
1985 -
Yulia Volkova, Russian musician (
t.A.T.u.)
Deaths
*
702 -
Chan Bahlum II, king of the Maya state of Palenque (b.
635)
*
1154 - Saint
Wulfric of
Haselbury Plucknett
*
1171 -
Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b.
1138)
*
1194 - King
Tancred of Sicily
*
1258 -
Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad
*
1408 -
Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b.
1342)
*
1431 -
Pope Martin V (b.
1368)
*
1513 - King
Christian II of Denmark (b.
1455)
*
1524 -
Tecún Umán, last leader of the
Quiché-Maya in the northern highlands of Guatemala.
*
1579 -
Nicholas Bacon, English politician (b.
1509)
*
1618 -
Philip William, Prince of Orange (b.
1554)
*
1626 -
John Dowland, English composer and lutenist (b.
1563)
*
1762 -
Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (b.
1723)
*
1771 -
Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (b.
1678)
*
1773 - King
Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (b.
1701)
*
1778 -
Laura Bassi, Italian scholar (b.
1711)
*
1790 -
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (b.
1741)
*
1803 -
Marie Dumesnil, French actress (b.
1713)
*
1806 -
Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (b.
1725)
*
1810 -
Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean national hero (executed) (b.
1767)
*
1871 -
Paul Kane, Irish-born painter (b.
1810)
*
1893 -
P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (b.
1818)
*
1895 -
Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist writer (b.
1818)
*
1907 -
Henri Moissan, French chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1852)
*
1916 -
Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1844)
*
1920 -
Robert Peary, American explorer (b.
1856)
*
1961 -
Percy Grainger, Australian composer (b.
1882)
*
1966 -
Chester Nimitz, American admiral (b.
1885)
*
1968 -
Anthony Asquith, British film director and writer (b.
1902)
*
1969 -
Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b.
1883)
*
1970 -
Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (b.
1885)
*
1972 -
Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1906)
* 1972 -
Walter Winchell, American journalist (b.
1897)
*
1975 -
Robert Schwarz Strauss Robert Strauss, American politician and diplomat (b.
1918)
*
1976 -
René Cassin, French judge, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1887)
*
1980 -
Joseph Banks Rhine J.B. Rhine, American parapsychologist (b.
1895)
*
1981 - Baron
Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor, socialite (b.
1904)
*
1985 -
Clarence Nash, American voice actor (b.
1904)
*
1992 -
Roberto D'Aubuisson, Salvadoran politician (b.
1944)
* 1992 -
Dick York, American actor (b.
1928)
*
1993 -
Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (b.
1916)
*
1996 -
Solomon Asch, American psychologist (b.
1907)
* 1996 -
TÅ?ru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (b.
1930)
*
1999 -
Sarah Kane, English playwright (b.
1971)
* 1999 -
Gene Siskel, American film critic (b.
1946)
*
2000 -
Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician (b.
1937)
*
2001 -
Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (b.
1910)
*
2003 -
Maurice Blanchot, French author (b.
1907)
* 2003 -
Orville Freeman, American politician (b.
1918)
* 2003 -
Harry Jacunski, American football player
* 2003 -
Ty Longley, American guitarist (
Great White Great White (band))
*
2005 -
Pam Bricker, Jazz singer and
Thievery Corporation vocalist (b.
1954)
* 2005 -
Sandra Dee, American actress (b.
1944)
* 2005 -
John Raitt, American actor (b.
1917)
* 2005 -
Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (b.
1937)
*
2006 -
Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster (b.
1919)
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
-
On This Day in Canada
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February 19 -
February 21 -
January 20 -
March 20 --
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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ar:20 Ù?براير
an:20 de frebero
ast:20 de febreru
bg:20 февруари
be:20 лютага
bs:20. februar
ca:20 de febrer
ceb:Pebrero 20
cv:Ð?арăÑ?, 20
co:20 di frivaghju
cs:20. únor
cy:20 Chwefror
da:20. februar
de:20. Februar
et:20. veebruar
el:20 ΦεβÏ?ουαÏ?ίου
es:20 de febrero
eo:20-a de februaro
eu:Otsailaren 20
fo:20. februar
fr:20 février
fy:20 febrewaris
fur:20 di Fevrâr
ga:20 Feabhra
gl:20 de febreiro
ko:2ì›” 20ì?¼
hr:20. veljaÄ?e
io:20 di februaro
id:20 Februari
ia:20 de februario
is:20. febrúar
it:20 febbraio
he:20 בפברו×?ר
jv:20 Februari
ka:20 თებერვ�ლი
csb:20 gromicznika
ku:20'ê reşemiyê
lt:Vasario 20
lb:20. Februar
hu:Február 20
mk:20 февруари
ms:20 Februari
nap:20 'e frevaro
nl:20 februari
ja:2月20日
no:20. februar
nn:20. februar
oc:20 de febrièr
os:20 февралы
pl:20 lutego
pt:20 de Fevereiro
ro:20 februarie
ru:20 февралÑ?
se:Guovvamánu 20.
sco:20 Februar
sq:20 Shkurt
scn:20 di frivaru
simple:February 20
sk:20. február
sl:20. februar
sr:20. фебруар
fi:20. helmikuuta
sv:20 februari
tl:Pebrero 20
tt:20. Febräl
te:ఫిబ�రవరి 20
th:20 �ุมภาพันธ์
vi:20 tháng 2
tr:20 Åžubat
uk:20 лютого
wa:20 d' fevrî
war:Pebrero 20
zh:2月20日
pam:Pebreru 20
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