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Events on the 20th of February in history

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20 Feb 1339 The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clashed in the Battle of Parabiago.
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20 Feb 1472 Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark.
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20 Feb 1525 Swiss & German mercenaries desert Fran
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20 Feb 1547 Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
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20 Feb 1547 King Edward VI of England was enthroned following death of Henry VIII
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20 Feb 1613 Gerard Reynst appointed Dutch Governor-General of East-Indies
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20 Feb 1653 Defeat of Dutch fleet under Admiral Van Tromp by Admiral Blake off Portsmouth
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20 Feb 1673 1st recorded wine auction held (London)
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20 Feb 1685 René-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
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20 Feb 1710 Johan Willem Friso becomes viceroy of Groningen Netherlands
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20 Feb 1725 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for
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20 Feb 1732 Estates of Holland ratifies Treaty of Vienna
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20 Feb 1737 French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns
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20 Feb 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Fort August, Scotland
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20 Feb 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness
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20 Feb 1768 1st American chartered fire insurance company opens (Penn)
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20 Feb 1768 1st American chartered fire insurance company receives charter (Pennsylvania)
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20 Feb 1792 The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
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20 Feb 1792 US postal service created; postage 6
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20 Feb 1798 Louis-Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
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20 Feb 1809 Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state
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20 Feb 1810 Andreas Hofer, Tirolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon's forces, is executed.
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20 Feb 1811 Austria declares bankruptcy
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20 Feb 1813 Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán during the Battle of Salta.
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20 Feb 1816 Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
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20 Feb 1816 Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome
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20 Feb 1823 English Captain James Weddell reaches 74
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20 Feb 1831 Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow
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20 Feb 1832 Charles Darwin visits Fernando Noronha in Atlantic Ocean
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20 Feb 1835 Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake.
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20 Feb 1835 Concepci
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20 Feb 1839 Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia
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20 Feb 1846 Polish insurgents lead an uprising in Kraków to incite a fight for national independence.
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20 Feb 1846 British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore
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20 Feb 1856 John Rutledge, Liverpool-New York steamer, hits iceberg; many die
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20 Feb 1861 Department of Navy of Confederacy forms
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20 Feb 1861 Steeple of Chichester Cathedral blown down during a storm
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20 Feb 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Olustee: The largest battle fought in Florida during the war.
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20 Feb 1864 Civil War Battle of Olustee, Florida
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20 Feb 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.
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20 Feb 1865 M I T establishes 1st US collegiate architectural school
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20 Feb 1869 Tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis
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20 Feb 1872 In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
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20 Feb 1872 Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin
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20 Feb 1872 Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags
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20 Feb 1872 Metropolitan Museum of Art opens (New York NY)
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20 Feb 1872 Silas Noble & JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine
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20 Feb 1873 University of California gets its 1st Med School (UC / SF)
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20 Feb 1873 The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco.
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20 Feb 1873 University of California gets its 1st Medical School (University of California/San Francisco)
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20 Feb 1877 1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky
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20 Feb 1877 Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
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20 Feb 1877 International Association (minor baseball league) organizes
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20 Feb 1887 1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh)
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20 Feb 1887 Germany, Austria-Hungary & France end Triple Alliance
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20 Feb 1890 Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire
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20 Feb 1895 Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo
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20 Feb 1899 Illinois Tel & Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system
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20 Feb 1901 The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
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20 Feb 1901 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes
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20 Feb 1902 Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, San Francisco
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20 Feb 1903 Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge
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20 Feb 1909 Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
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20 Feb 1912 Argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket 1st-class fixture
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20 Feb 1913 King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
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20 Feb 1915 Panam
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20 Feb 1917 Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die
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20 Feb 1917 Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse's musical "Oh, Boy!" premieres in New York NY
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20 Feb 1919 French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt
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20 Feb 1921 The Young Communist League of Czechoslovakia is founded.
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20 Feb 1921 Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran
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20 Feb 1922 WOR-AM in New York City NY begins radio transmissions
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20 Feb 1922 Marc Connelly & George Kaufman's "To the Ladies" premieres in New York NY
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20 Feb 1922 Vilnius, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland
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20 Feb 1923 Christy Mathewson becomes president of Boston Braves
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20 Feb 1927 Golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath
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20 Feb 1929 American Samoa organized as a territory of US
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20 Feb 1929 Red Sox announce they will play Sunday games at Braves Field
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20 Feb 1930 Capelle soccer team forms
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20 Feb 1931 The Congress of the United States approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
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20 Feb 1931 Congress allows California to build Oakland-Bay Bridge
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20 Feb 1932 Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China
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20 Feb 1933 Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.
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20 Feb 1933 The Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution that will end Prohibition in the United States.
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20 Feb 1933 House of Representatives completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition
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20 Feb 1933 Curom, Cura
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20 Feb 1933 Sidney Howard's "Alien Corn" premieres in New York NY
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20 Feb 1934 Virgil Thomson's opera "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens in New York NY
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20 Feb 1935 Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
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20 Feb 1935 Karoline Mikkelson is 1st woman on Antarctica
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20 Feb 1937 1st automobile / airplane combination tested, Santa Monica, California
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20 Feb 1938 UK Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says Prime Minister Chamberlain appeased Germany
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20 Feb 1940 Larry Clinton and his Orchestra record "Limehouse Blues"
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20 Feb 1941 Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation
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20 Feb 1941 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland
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20 Feb 1941 Romania breaks relations with Netherlands
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20 Feb 1942 Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
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20 Feb 1942 Lieutenant E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers
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20 Feb 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.
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20 Feb 1943 The Parícutin volcano begins to form in Parícutin, Mexico.
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20 Feb 1943 American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
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20 Feb 1943 New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (M
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20 Feb 1943 Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia
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20 Feb 1943 Phil Wrigley & B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League
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20 Feb 1944 World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
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20 Feb 1944 World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
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20 Feb 1944 Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers
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20 Feb 1944 US takes Eniwetok Island
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20 Feb 1947 Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in Los Angeles CA
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20 Feb 1947 Lord Mountbatten appointed as last viceroy of India
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20 Feb 1948 Czechoslovakia's non-communist minister resigns
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20 Feb 1949 1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal KS)
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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 1952 "African Queen" opens at Capitol Theater in New York City
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20 Feb 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.
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20 Feb 1952 1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford)
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20 Feb 1953 August A Busch buys the Cardinals for $3.75 million
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20 Feb 1953 US Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport & not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling
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20 Feb 1954 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
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20 Feb 1954 General Zahedi wins election in Persia
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20 Feb 1955 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
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20 Feb 1956 The United States Merchant Marine Academy becomes a permanent Service Academy.
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20 Feb 1956 WOSU TV channel 34 in Columbus OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
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20 Feb 1957 Hughie Tayfield takes 9-113 vs England, 13 wickets for match
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20 Feb 1958 Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner
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20 Feb 1958 Los Angeles Coliseum Committee approves 2-year pact allows Dodgers to use facility
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20 Feb 1959 The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
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20 Feb 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.
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20 Feb 1962 John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth (Friendship 7)
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20 Feb 1963 Willie Mays (San Francisco Giants) signs a record $100,000 per year contract
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20 Feb 1963 End of the Test Cricket careers of Neil Harvey & Alan Davidson
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20 Feb 1965 Beatles record "That Means a Lot"
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20 Feb 1965 Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
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20 Feb 1965 Beatles record "That Means a Lot"
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20 Feb 1965 Ranger 8 makes hard landing on the Moon, returns photos, other data
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20 Feb 1965 Turkish government of Uerg
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20 Feb 1966 Author Valery Tarsis banished in the USSR
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20 Feb 1968 State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A & M
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20 Feb 1968 John Cleese (Monty Python) marries Connie Booth
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20 Feb 1971 The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
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20 Feb 1971 National Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio & TV stations to go off the air; The mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes
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20 Feb 1971 Bruin Phil Esposito is NHL's quickest to score 50 goals in a season
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20 Feb 1971 Major General Idi Amin Dada appoints himself President of Uganda
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20 Feb 1972 1st time Cleveland Cavaliers beat the New York Knicks (111-109)
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20 Feb 1972 Ard Schenk becomes world champion skater
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20 Feb 1972 Sicco Mansholt becomes chairman of European Committee
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20 Feb 1973 10th time Islanders shut-out-4-0 vs Penguins
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20 Feb 1974 Gordie Howe comes out of retirement for $1 million from Houston Aeros, WHA
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20 Feb 1974 Cher files for separation from husband Sonny Bono
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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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20 Feb 1976 Muhammad Ali KOs Jan Pierre Coopman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
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20 Feb 1977 "My Fair Lady" closes at St. James Theater NYC after 384 performances
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20 Feb 1977 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
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20 Feb 1978 The last Order of Victory is bestowed upon Leonid Brezhnev.
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20 Feb 1978 Egypt announces it is pulling its diplomats out of Cyprus
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20 Feb 1978 4th People's Choice Awards Star Wars, Carol Burnett & Bob Hope
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20 Feb 1978 Bob Backland beats Billy Graham in New York, to become WWF wrestling champion
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20 Feb 1978 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
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20 Feb 1979 "Comin' Uptown" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 45 performances
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20 Feb 1980 Actress Susan Dey of "LA Law" weds producer Bernard Sofronski
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20 Feb 1981 Flight readiness firing of Columbia's main engines; 20 seconds
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20 Feb 1981 James Sanford equals 50 meter indoor world record (5.61 seconds)
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20 Feb 1982 New York Islanders wins then NHL record 15th straight game
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20 Feb 1983 Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km)
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20 Feb 1983 Roland Liboton becomes world champion cross-country cycling
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20 Feb 1985 After defending his WBC flyweight championship, Sot Chitalada's check for $104,000 is stolen by a ringside pickpocket
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20 Feb 1986 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany, New York
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20 Feb 1986 The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.
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20 Feb 1986 Los Angeles Dodger Orel Hershiser is 1st to win a $1 million salary by arbitration
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20 Feb 1987 Unabomber: In Salt Lake City, a bomb explodes in a computer store.
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20 Feb 1987 Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City
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20 Feb 1987 David Hartman quits ABC's "Good Morning America", after 11 years
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20 Feb 1988 The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
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20 Feb 1988 500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil
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20 Feb 1988 Brian Boitano wins Olympics gold medal in figure skating
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20 Feb 1988 Kelly Hrudy's 5th Islander shut-out win-Hartford 3-0
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20 Feb 1988 Peter Kalikow purchases New York Post from Rupert Murdoch for $37.6 million
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20 Feb 1988 Andr
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20 Feb 1988 Cornelia Oschkenat hurdles indoor world record 50 meter (6.58 seconds)
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20 Feb 1988 Rob Druppers runs world record indoor 1000 meter (2:16.2)
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20 Feb 1988 Stefka Kostadinova high jumps indoor world record (2.06 meters)
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20 Feb 1989 An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England.
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20 Feb 1989 Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancelled an April reunion because of the deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players
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20 Feb 1989 Total eclipse of the Moon
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20 Feb 1991 "Taking Steps" opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 78 performances
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20 Feb 1991 A gigantic statue of Albania's long-time leader, Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the Albanian capital Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters.
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20 Feb 1991 33rd Grammy Awards Another Day in Paradise, Mariah Carey
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20 Feb 1992 "Private Lives" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 37 performances
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20 Feb 1992 Orthodox patriarch Shenouda III visits Netherlands
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20 Feb 1992 Ross Perot says he'll run for President on Larry King Show
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20 Feb 1993 Florida Marlins open their 1st spring training camp
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20 Feb 1993 Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
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20 Feb 1993 New York Islanders retire Billy Smith's number 31
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20 Feb 1994 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage
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20 Feb 1994 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55)
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20 Feb 1994 Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals
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20 Feb 1997 "Stanley" opens at Circle in the Square Theater, New York City
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20 Feb 1997 "Stanley" opens at Circle in Square Theater NYC
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20 Feb 1997 San Francisco Giants Barry Bonds signs record $22.9 million 2 year contract
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20 Feb 1998 American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
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20 Feb 1998 Tara Lipinski wins Olympics figure skating gold medal
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20 Feb 1998 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations
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20 Feb 1998 US movie box office hits quickest $1 billion for year (51 days)
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20 Feb 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.
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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 2006 In South Korea the United Liberal Democrats, the three top political parties was merged into Grand National Party.
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20 Feb 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.
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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 2013 The smallest extrasolar planet, Kepler-37b is discovered.
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20 Feb 2014 Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters died in in Ukraine's capital Kiev, many reportedly killed by snipers.
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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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