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What Happened on February 20th This Day in History

Year	Name
2016	Six people are killed and two injured in multiple shooting incidents in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
2015	Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services.
2014	Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters died in Ukraine's capital Kyiv, many reportedly killed by snipers.
2010	In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago.
2009	Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack.
2005	Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
2003	During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the Station nightclub ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others.[10]
1998	American figure skater Tara Lipinski, at the age of 15, becomes the youngest Olympic figure skating gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
1991	In the Albanian capital Tirana, a gigantic statue of Albania's long-time leader, Enver Hoxha, is brought down by mobs of angry protesters.
1988	The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
1986	The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.
1979	An earthquake cracks open the Sinila volcanic crater on the Dieng Plateau, releasing poisonous H2S gas and killing 149 villagers in the Indonesian province of Central Java.
1971	The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
1968	The China Academy of Space Technology, China's main arm for the research, development, and creation of space satellites, is established in Beijing.
1965	Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
1962	Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
1959	The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
1956	The United States Merchant Marine Academy becomes a permanent Service Academy.
1952	Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
1944	World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
1944	World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Atoll.
1943	American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
1943	The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.
1942	Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
1935	Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
1933	The U.S. Congress approves the Blaine Act to repeal federal Prohibition in the United States, sending the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution to state ratifying conventions for approval.
1933	Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.
1931	The U.S. Congress approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
1931	An anarchist uprising in Encarnación briefly transforms the city into a revolutionary commune.
1920	An earthquake kills between 114 and 130 in Georgia and heavily damages the town of Gori.
1913	King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
1909	Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
1905	The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of Massachusetts's mandatory smallpox vaccination program in Jacobson v. Massachusetts.
1901	The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
1877	Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
1872	The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.
1865	End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance.
1864	American Civil War: Battle of Olustee: The largest battle fought in Florida during the war.
1846	Polish insurgents lead an uprising in Kraków to incite a fight for national independence.
1835	The 1835 Concepción earthquake destroys Concepción, Chile.
1816	Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
1813	Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán during the Battle of Salta.
1798	Louis-Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
1792	The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
1685	René-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
1547	Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
1521	Juan Ponce de León sets out from Spain for Florida with about 200 prospective colonists.
1472	Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark.
1339	The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated.

Famous People Born on February 20

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Year	Name
1923	Victor G. Atiyeh, American businessman and politician, 32nd Governor of Oregon (d. 2014)
1991	Angelique van der Meet, Dutch tennis player
1918	Leonore Annenberg, American businesswoman and diplomat (d. 2009)
1971	Jari Litmanen, Finnish footballer
1844	Joshua Slocum, Canadian sailor and adventurer (d. 1909)
1633	Jan de Baen, Dutch painter (d. 1702)
1867	Louise, Princess Royal of England (d. 1931)
1943	Mike Leigh, English director and screenwriter
1947	Peter Osgood, English footballer (d. 2006)
1960	Joel Hodgson, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter

Famous People Deaths On February 20

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on February 20. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1871	Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter (b. 1810)
2010	Alexander Haig, American general and politician, 59th United States Secretary of State (b. 1924)
1972	Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
1778	Laura Bassi, Italian physicist and scholar (b. 1711)
1054	Yaroslav the Wise, grand prince of Veliky Novgorod and Kyiv (b. 978)
1968	Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
1963	Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer(b. 1879)
1920	Jacinta Marto, Portuguese saint (b. 1910)
2001	Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (b. 1910)
1993	Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian businessman, founded Lamborghini (b. 1916)