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Anniversary on the 20th of February 1288

Anniversary
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100 years anniversary
20 Feb 1925   Alex La Guma: Cape Town, South Africa -- Novelist (A Walk in the Night)
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20 Feb 1925   Pramudya Ananta Tur: Javanese author (Anak semua bangsa)
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20 Feb 1925   Robert Altman: Kansas City, Missouri -- Director (Nashville, M*A*S*H)
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20 Feb 1925   Pat Lanigan, Australian public servant (d. 1992)
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20 Feb 1925   Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 44th Yokozuna (d. 1990)
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20 Feb 1925   Robert Altman, American director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
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20 Feb 1925   Alex La Guma Cape Town South Africa, novelist (A Walk in the Night)
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20 Feb 1925   Pramudya Ananta Tur Javanese author (Anak semua bangsa)
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20 Feb 1925   Robert Altman Kansas City MO, director (Nashville, MASH)
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75 years anniversary
20 Feb 1950   John Voldstad: Oslo, Norway -- Actor (Darryl-Newhart)
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20 Feb 1950   Dylan Thomas arrives in NYC for his 1st US poetry reading tour
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20 Feb 1950   WOL-AM in Washington DC swaps calls with WWDC
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20 Feb 1950   Tony Wilson, English journalist and businessman (d. 2007)
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20 Feb 1950   Walter Becker, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Steely Dan)
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20 Feb 1950   birth Walter Becker, bass, guitar, vocals, songwriter with American group Steely Dan who had the 1973 US No.11 single 'Reeling In The Years' and nine other US Top 30 hits. Steely Dan's 'Two Against Nature' won a Grammy in 2001 for Album of the year. Becker has produced records for Rickie Lee Jones, China Crisis and Michael Franks.
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20 Feb 1950   John Voldstad Oslo Norway, actor (Darryl-Newhart)
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20 Feb 1950   Walter Becker New York NY, rock bassist (Steely Dan-Peg)
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20 Feb 1950   Dylan Thomas arrives in New York NY for his 1st US poetry reading tour
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20 Feb 1950   WOL-AM in Washington DC swaps calls with WWDC
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20 Feb 1950 RELIGIOUS American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'One may know God's work for his soul without understanding it all... Let the heart be warm, at all costs to the head, in the getting of Christianity.'
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50 years anniversary
20 Feb 1975   Brendan Witt: Humboldt -- NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
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20 Feb 1975   Ismael Kirui: Marakwet, Kenya -- 5k runner
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20 Feb 1975   Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild: Bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 76
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20 Feb 1975   Robert Strauss: Actor (Sgt Gruzewsky-Mona McCluskey), dies at 61
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20 Feb 1975   Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conserv Party
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20 Feb 1975   Niclas Wallin, Swedish ice hockey player
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20 Feb 1975   Brian Littrell, American singer-songwriter and actor (Backstreet Boys)
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20 Feb 1975   Liván Hernández, Cuban baseball player
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20 Feb 1975   birth Brian Littrell, singer with Backstreet Boys who had the 1997 US No.2 single 'Quit appearing Games With My Heart' and the 1999 UK No.1 single 'I Want It That Way'.
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20 Feb 1975   Brendan Witt Humboldt, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
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20 Feb 1975   Brian Littrell singer (Backstreet Boys)
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20 Feb 1975   Ismael Kirui Marakwet Kenya, 5k runner
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20 Feb 1975   Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 76
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20 Feb 1975   Robert Strauss actor (Sergeant Gruzewsky-Mona McCluskey), dies at 61
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20 Feb 1975   Lillian Fontaine actress (Suddenly it's Spring), dies at 88
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20 Feb 1975   Leonard Baichan scores 105 on Test Cricket debut, vs Pakistan Lahore
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20 Feb 1975   Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party
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20 Feb 1975   USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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25 years anniversary
20 Feb 2000   Anatoly Sobchak, Russian lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Saint Petersburg (b. 1937)
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20 Feb 2000   All Saints started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Pure Shores'. The group's fourth UK No.1. Taken from the Leonardo Di Caprio movie, The Beach.
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20 years anniversary
20 Feb 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.
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20 Feb 2005   Thomas Willmore, English mathematician and academic (b. 1919)
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20 Feb 2005   Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (b. 1937)
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20 Feb 2005   John Raitt, American actor and singer (b. 1917)
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20 Feb 2005   Sandra Dee, American actress and singer (b. 1944)
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20 Feb 2005   Scissor Sisters went to No.1 on the US album chart with their debut and self-titled album, also a No.1 in the UK.
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15 years anniversary
20 Feb 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.
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20 Feb 2010   Basavaraju Venkata Padmanabha Rao, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1931)
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20 Feb 2010   Alexander Haig, American general and politician, 59th United States Secretary of State (b. 1924)
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20 Feb 2010   An event was staged at The Barbican in London where 40 zebra finches made music by landing on guitars and cymbals. The flock of finches would land on Gibson Les Paul guitars, which were plugged into amplifiers and land on upturned cymbals being used as bird feeders to make random sounds. A video clip of the installation, on YouTube had been watched more than 520,000 times.
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10 years anniversary
20 Feb 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.
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20 Feb 2015   John C. Willke, American physician, author, and activist (b. 1925)
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20 Feb 2015   Johanna Klink, German super-centenarian (b. 1903)
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20 Feb 2015   Ibrahim Biogradlić, Bosnian footballer and manager (b. 1931)
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