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Friday 20 February 2015

Today In History [20th February, 2015]

A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today In History [19th February, 2015]

February 20

1513           Pope Julius II dies. He will lay in rest in a huge tomb sculptured by Michelangelo.
1725           New Hampshire militiamen partake in the first recorded scalping of Indians by whites in North America.
1792           The U.S. Postal Service is created.
1809           The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the power of the federal government is greater than any individual state in the Union.
1831           Polish revolutionaries defeat the Russians in the Battle of Growchow.
1864           Confederate troops defeat a Union army sent to bring Florida into the union at the Battle of Olustee, Fla.
1900           J.F. Pickering patents his airship.
1906           Russian troops seize large portions of Mongolia.
1915           President Woodrow Wilson opens the Panama-Pacific Expo in San Francisco to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal.
1918           The Soviet Red Army seizes Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine.
1938           Hitler demands self-determination for Germans in Austria and Czechoslovakia.
1941           The United States sends war planes to the Pacific.
1942           Lt. Edward O'Hare downs five out of nine Japanese bombers that are attacking the carrier Lexington.
1943           German troops of the Afrika Korps break through the Kasserine Pass, defeating U.S. forces.
1954           The Ford Foundation gives a $25 million grant to the Fund for Advancement of Education.
1959           The FCC applies the equal time rule to TV newscasts of political candidates.
1962           Mercury astronaut John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth.
1963           Moscow offers to allow on-site inspection of nuclear testing.
1965           Ranger 8 hits the moon and sends back 7,000 photos to the United States.
1968           North Vietnamese army chief in Hue orders all looters to be shot on sight.
1971           Young people protest having to cut their long hair in Athens, Greece.
1982           Carnegie Hall in New York begins $20 million in renovations.

Born on February 20
1726           William Prescott, U.S. Revolutionary War hero at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
1808           Honore Daumier, French caricaturist.
1838           Ludwig Boltzmann, atomic physics engineer
1888           Marie Rambert, ballet dancer and director.
1894           Curt Richter, biologist.
1898           Jimmy Yancey, American blues pianist.
1901           Rene Dubos, microbiologist, developed the first commercial antibiotic.
1901           Louis I. Kahn, architect.
1902           Ansel Adams, American landscape photographer, especially of western wilderness and mountain panoramas.
1904           Aleksey Nikolayevich Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (1964-1980).
1924           Gloria Vanderbilt, fashion designer
1925           Robert Altman, film director (Nashville, The Player).
1927           Sidney Poitier, American actor, first African American male to win an Oscar (Lillies of the Field).

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