About February 20
February 20, 2024 is the 51st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 315 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 344 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.
- 1685 –René-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France’s claim to Texas.
- 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.
- 1835 –Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake.
- 1909 –Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: The “Big Week” began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
- 1944 –World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
- 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.
- 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
- 1998 –American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
- 2003 –During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the club ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others.
- 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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