About February 20
February 20, 2025 is the 51st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 314 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 362 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 20
- 1472 –Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark.
- 1547 –Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
- 1685 –René-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France’s claim to Texas.
- 1798 –Louis Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
- 1810 –Andreas Hofer, Tirolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon’s forces, is executed.
- 1835 –Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Olustee occurs – the largest battle fought in Florida during the war.
- 1901 –The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
- 1909 –Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
- 1913 –King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
- 1931 –The Congress of the United States approves the construction of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
- 1935 –Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
- 1942 –Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America’s first World War II flying ace.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1962 –Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in 4 hours, 55 minutes.
- 1978 –The last Order of Victory is bestowed upon Leonid Brezhnev.
- 1985 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Ox in Chinese astrology.
- 1987 –Unabomber: In Salt Lake City, a bomb explodes in a computer store.
- 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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