About February 20
February 20, 2023 is the 51st day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 314 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 355 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 20
- 1547 –Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
- 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.
- 1813 –Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán during the Battle of Salta.
- 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.
- 1909 –Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
- 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 –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.
- 1943 –American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
- 1959 –The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
- 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.
- 1965 –Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
- 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.
- 2005 –Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
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