February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 314 days remaining until the end of the year (315 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).
NATIONAL LOVE YOUR PET DAY
1472 – The Orkney and Shetland islands are left by Norway to Scotland as a dowry payment.
NATIONAL LOVE YOUR PET DAY
1472 – The Orkney and Shetland islands are left by Norway to Scotland as a dowry payment.
1547 – King Edward VI of England was enthroned following the death of Henry VIII.
1792 – On this day in 1792, President George Washington signs legislation renewing the United States Post Office as a cabinet department led by the postmaster general.
1835 – Concepcion, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake; 5,000 die.
1869 – Tennessee Governor W. C. Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis.
1872 – The hydraulic electric elevator is patented by Cyrus Baldwin.
1872 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.
1887 – The first minor league baseball association organizes in Pittsburgh, PA. The same year the city's professional baseball team, the Alleghenys, joined the MLB National League, changing their name to Pirates.
1901 – The first territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes. Hawaii eventually becomes a state in 1959, the 50th state of the union.
1917 – A loaded ammunition ship explodes in Archangel harbor, Russia killing about 1,500.
1929 – American Samoa organizes as a territory of the United States.
1792 – On this day in 1792, President George Washington signs legislation renewing the United States Post Office as a cabinet department led by the postmaster general.
1835 – Concepcion, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake; 5,000 die.
1869 – Tennessee Governor W. C. Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis.
1872 – The hydraulic electric elevator is patented by Cyrus Baldwin.
1872 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.
1887 – The first minor league baseball association organizes in Pittsburgh, PA. The same year the city's professional baseball team, the Alleghenys, joined the MLB National League, changing their name to Pirates.
1901 – The first territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes. Hawaii eventually becomes a state in 1959, the 50th state of the union.
1917 – A loaded ammunition ship explodes in Archangel harbor, Russia killing about 1,500.
1929 – American Samoa organizes as a territory of the United States.
1931 – Congress grants permission for California to build the Oakland-Bay Bridge.
1941 – The first transport of Jews to concentration camps leaves Plotsk, Poland during WWII.
1942 – On this day, Lt. Edward O'Hare takes off from the aircraft carrier Lexington in a raid against the Japanese position at Rabaul, in WWII, and minutes later becomes America's first WWII flying ace. He would win the Medal of Honor and Chicago's Orchard Airport (ORD) would be renamed O'Hare International Airport in honor of his heroics. The facility, however, still uses the abbreviation ORD.
1943 – American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
1944 – World War II: The "Big Week" begins with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
1947 – A chemical mixing error causes an explosion that destroys 42 blocks in LA.
1971 – Major General Idi Amin Dada appoints himself president of Uganda.
1982 – The NY Islanders win a then NHL record 15th straight game. The record is now 17 games, set by the 1992-93 Pittsburgh Penguins.
1992 – H. Ross Perot announces he'll run for President on the Larry King Show.
1994 – Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals.
2001 – The United States Supreme Court declines to consider an appeal by five major oil companies against Unocal's patent on production of cleaner "reformulated" gasoline sold in California.
2003 – A fire in a night club in a West Warwick, Rhode Island, kills 100 people and seriously injures almost 200 more.
2013 – Kepler-37b, the smallest known exoplanet, is discovered.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1844 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1906)
1893 – Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist and author (d. 1993)
1902 – Ansel Adams, American photographer and environmentalist (d. 1984)
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1941 – The first transport of Jews to concentration camps leaves Plotsk, Poland during WWII.
1942 – On this day, Lt. Edward O'Hare takes off from the aircraft carrier Lexington in a raid against the Japanese position at Rabaul, in WWII, and minutes later becomes America's first WWII flying ace. He would win the Medal of Honor and Chicago's Orchard Airport (ORD) would be renamed O'Hare International Airport in honor of his heroics. The facility, however, still uses the abbreviation ORD.
1943 – American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
1944 – World War II: The "Big Week" begins with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
1947 – A chemical mixing error causes an explosion that destroys 42 blocks in LA.
1971 – Major General Idi Amin Dada appoints himself president of Uganda.
1972 – After operating for 22 years, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) concludes its final military exercise and quietly shuts down.
1975 – A feud begins between the Official Irish Republican Army and the Irish National Liberation Army; the two groups assassinate a number of each other's volunteers until the feud ends in June 1975.
1979 – Eleven 'loyalists', known as the "Shankill Butchers", are sentenced to life in prison for 19 murders; the gang was named for its late-night kidnapping, torture and murder (by throat slashing) of random Catholic civilians in Belfast.
1979 – Eleven 'loyalists', known as the "Shankill Butchers", are sentenced to life in prison for 19 murders; the gang was named for its late-night kidnapping, torture and murder (by throat slashing) of random Catholic civilians in Belfast.
1982 – The NY Islanders win a then NHL record 15th straight game. The record is now 17 games, set by the 1992-93 Pittsburgh Penguins.
1987 – A bomb blamed on the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, explodes by a computer store in Salt Lake City.
1992 – H. Ross Perot announces he'll run for President on the Larry King Show.
1994 – Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals.
2001 – The United States Supreme Court declines to consider an appeal by five major oil companies against Unocal's patent on production of cleaner "reformulated" gasoline sold in California.
2003 – A fire in a night club in a West Warwick, Rhode Island, kills 100 people and seriously injures almost 200 more.
2013 – Kepler-37b, the smallest known exoplanet, is discovered.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1844 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1906)
1893 – Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist and author (d. 1993)
1902 – Ansel Adams, American photographer and environmentalist (d. 1984)
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