February 20 in history
Events on February 20
Notable events that happened on February 20 in past years.
- 2016
Six people are killed and two injured in multiple shooting incidents in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
Wikipedia article: 2016 Kalamazoo shootings - 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.
Wikipedia article: 2009 suicide air raid on Colombo - 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.
Wikipedia article: Tara Lipinski - 1986
The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.
Wikipedia article: Soviet Union - 1965
Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
Wikipedia article: Ranger 8 - 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.
Wikipedia article: Emmett Ashford - 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.
Wikipedia article: The Saturday Evening Post - 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.
Wikipedia article: United States Congress - 1931
An anarchist uprising in Encarnación, Paraguay briefly transforms the city into a revolutionary commune.
Wikipedia article: Anarchism - 1905
The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of Massachusetts's mandatory smallpox vaccination program in Jacobson v. Massachusetts.
Wikipedia article: Supreme Court of the United States - 1872
The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.
Wikipedia article: Metropolitan Museum of Art - 1835
The 1835 Concepción earthquake destroys Concepción, Chile.
Wikipedia article: 1835 Concepción earthquake - 1813
Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán during the Battle of Salta.
Wikipedia article: Manuel Belgrano - 1553
Yohannan Sulaqa professes his Catholic belief and is ordained as bishop shortly after; this marks the beginning of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
- 1339
The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated.
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