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.

You can browse the full year calendar in case you need it.

Coffee Love Do you drink coffee? Did you know that coffee and word games are an excellent combination to sharpen your vocabulary? Try this! Within 30 seconds, how many words can you think of from these letters OHCYSGQFOIE? Check your answers here: Unscramble words OHCYSGQFOIE. (Sponsored by WordFinder.Cafe)

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

  • 1339 –
    The Milanese army and the St. George’s (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clashed in the Battle of Parabiago.
  • 1472 –
    Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark.
  • 1792 –
    The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1943 –
    The Parícutin volcano begins to form in Parícutin, Mexico.
  • 1959 –
    The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
  • 1965 –
    Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
  • 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.
  • 1988 –
    The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
  • 1989 –
    An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England
  • 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.

DayOfTheWeek.org Are you looking for a day of the week calculator? Try it on any date like anniversaries, birthday of someone you know, or any other date that is special to you. You can even try it on historical dates. For example: February 20
(Sponsored by DayOfTheWeek.org)

« February 19
February 21 »


Share or Link to This Page: