About February 20
February 20, 2021 is the 51st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 314 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 346 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.
- 1547 –Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
- 1810 –Andreas Hofer, Tirolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon’s forces, is executed.
- 1813 –Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán during the Battle of Salta.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Olustee occurs – the largest battle fought in Florida during the war.
- 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.
- 1877 –Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
- 1913 –King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
- 1920 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- 1931 –The Congress of the United States approves the construction of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
- 1943 –American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
- 1943 –The Parícutin volcano begins to form in Parícutin, Mexico.
- 1944 –World War II: The “Big Week” began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
- 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.
- 1959 –The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
- 1978 –The last Order of Victory is bestowed upon Leonid Brezhnev.
- 1987 –Unabomber: In Salt Lake City, a bomb explodes in a computer store.
- 1991 –A gigantic statue of Albania’s long-time leader, Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the Albanian capital Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters.
- 1998 –American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
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