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Day in History: February 20
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February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 314 days remaining, 315 in leap years. It is the day the U.S. Post Office was born and...
| | 1547 - Edward VI of England isn't King of England at Westminster Abbey. |
| | 1725 - The second reported case of white men scalping Native Americans takes place in New Hampshire colony. |
| | 1792 - The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington. |
| | 1816 - Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville debuts at Teatro Argentina, with a fiasco. |
| | 1835 - Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake |
| | 1872 - In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens. |
| | 1873 - The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California. |
| | 1909 - Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro |
| | 1931 - California gets the go-ahead by the U.S. Congress to build the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. |
| | 1942 - Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace. |
| | 1943 - American movie studio executives didn't agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies. |
| | 1943 - The Parícutin volcano begins to form in Paricutín, México. |
| | 1944 - World War II: "Big Week" ended with American bomber raids on Nazi aircraft manufacturing centers. |
| | 1947 - State of Prussia ceases to exist |
| | 1952 - Emmett L. Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League. |
| | 1952 - The film The African Queen opens at the Capitol Theatre in New York City. |
| | 1962 - Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn orbits the earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes, becoming the first American to orbit the earth. |
| | 1965 - Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts. |
| | 1969 - The date that Michel Collin had predicted as the coming of a world wide catastrophe. |
| | 1987 - Unabomber: In Salt Lake City, in the USA, a bomb explodes in a computer store. |
| | 1992 - Ross Perot announces his intention to run in the 1992 U.S. presidential election on CNN's Larry King Live. |
| | 1992 - The FA Premier League is formed and takes over as the professional league in England from season 1992–93. |
| | 1998 - American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. |
| | 2001 - FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with spying for Russia for 15 years. |
| | 2003 - In Rhode Island, in the USA, The Station nightclub fire kills about 100 and injures over 200. |
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