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What happend on 20. February in History
In our data base we found 327 events happened on 20. February:
• 702: K'inich Kan B'alam II, king of the Maya state of Palenque (b. 635) [category: Deaths]
• 1154: Saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett [category: Deaths]
• 1171: Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138) [category: Deaths]
• 1194: King Tancred of Sicily (b. 1138) [category: Deaths]
• 1258: Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad (b. 1213) [category: Deaths]
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• 1339: The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clashed in the Battle of Parabiago. [category: Events]
• 1408: Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342) [category: Deaths]
• 1431: Pope Martin V (b. 1368) [category: Deaths]
• 1472: Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark. [category: Events]
• 1524: Tecún Umán, last leader of the K'iche' (Quiché) Maya people [category: Deaths]
• 1547: Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey. [category: Events]
• 1579: Nicholas Bacon, English politician (b. 1509) [category: Deaths]
• 1618: Philip William, Prince of Orange (b. 1554) [category: Deaths]
• 1626: John Dowland, English composer and lutenist (b. 1563) [category: Deaths]
• 1631: Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (d. 1712) [category: Births]
• 1633: Jan de Baen, Dutch portrait painter (d. 1702) [category: Births]
• 1685: René-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas. [category: Events]
• 1705: Nicolas Chédeville, French composer, musette player and musette maker (d. 1782) [category: Births]
• 1726: William Prescott, American Revolutionary War colonel (Battle of Bunker Hill) (d. 1795) [category: Births]
• 1743: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet (d. 1825) [category: Births]
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• 1745: Henry James Pye, English poet (d. 1813) [category: Births]
• 1751: Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (d. 1826) [category: Births]
• 1753: Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815) [category: Births]
• 1757: John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist (d. 1834) [category: Births]
• 1759: Johann Christian Reil, German physician, founder of psychiatry (d. 1813) [category: Births]
• 1761: Ludwig Abeille, German pianist and composer (d. 1838) [category: Births]
• 1762: Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (b. 1723) [category: Deaths]
• 1763: Adalbert Gyrowetz, Bohemian composer (d. 1850) [category: Births]
• 1771: Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (b. 1678) [category: Deaths]
• 1773: King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (b. 1701) [category: Deaths]
• 1778: Laura Bassi, Italian scholar (b. 1711) [category: Deaths]
• 1790: Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1741) [category: Deaths]
• 1792: The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington. [category: Events]
• 1794: William Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869) [category: Births]
• 1798: Louis Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power. [category: Events]
• 1802: Charles de Bériot, Belgian violinist (d. 1870) [category: Births]
• 1803: Marie Dumesnil, French actress (b. 1713) [category: Deaths]
• 1806: Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (b. 1725) [category: Deaths]
• 1810: Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean national hero (executed) (b. 1767) [category: Deaths]
• 1810: Andreas Hofer, Tirolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon's forces, is executed. [category: Events]
• 1813: Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán during the Battle of Salta. [category: Events]
• 1816: Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome. [category: Events]
• 1819: Alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (d. 1882) [category: Births]
• 1835: Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake. [category: Events]
• 1839: Benjamin Waugh, social reformer; founder of the NSPCC (d. 1908) [category: Births]
• 1844: Joshua Slocum, Canadian seaman and adventurer (d. 1909) [category: Births]
• 1844: Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (d. 1906) [category: Births]
• 1848: Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad executive (d. 1909) [category: Births]
• 1850: Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian physician and poet (d. 1931) [category: Births]
• 1859: Eliza Courtney, Illegitimate daughter of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and Charles Grey [category: Births]
• 1860: Karl Mantzius, Danish theatre and film actor, theatre director and writer (d. 1921) [category: Births]
• 1862: William Wallace Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln (b. 1850) [category: Deaths]
• 1864: American Civil War: Battle of Olustee occurs – the largest battle fought in Florida during the war. [category: Events]
• 1866: Carl Westman, Swedish architect and designer (d. 1936) [category: Births]
• 1867: Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife (d. 1931) [category: Births]
• 1871: Paul Kane, Irish-born painter (b. 1810) [category: Deaths]
• 1872: In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens. [category: Events]
• 1873: The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California. [category: Events]
• 1874: Mary Garden, Scottish operatic soprano (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1877: Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. [category: Events]
• 1879: Hod Stuart, Canadian hockey player (d. 1907) [category: Births]
• 1880: Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French aristocrat and novelist (d. 1923) [category: Births]
• 1887: Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1888: Georges Bernanos, French writer (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1893: Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1893: Russel Crouse, American playwright (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1893: P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (b. 1818) [category: Deaths]
• 1895: Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist writer (b. 1818) [category: Deaths]
• 1898: Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (d. 1951) [category: Births]
• 1899: Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1901: Cecil Harmsworth King, English newspaper owner (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1901: Muhammad Naguib, President of Egypt (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1901: Ramakrishna Ranga Rao of Bobbili, Chief Minister of Madras Presidency (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1901: The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time. [category: Events]
• 1902: Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1904: Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1905: Jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain [category: Deaths]
• 1906: Gale Gordon, American television and radio actor (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1907: Malcolm Atterbury, American actor (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1907: Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1852) [category: Deaths]
• 1909: Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro. [category: Events]
• 1910: Boutros Ghali, the Prime Minister of Egypt from (b. 1846) [category: Deaths]
• 1912: Pierre Boulle, French author (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1913: Tommy Henrich, American baseball player (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1913: King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra. [category: Events]
• 1914: John Daly, South African–born broadcaster (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1916: Jean Erdman, American dancer [category: Births]
• 1916: Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer, pacifist, Nobel laureate (b. 1844) [category: Deaths]
• 1917: Juan Vicente Torrealba, Venezuelan harpist and composer [category: Births]
• 1917: Leone Sextus Tollemache, British Army captain (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1918: Leonore Annenberg, American billionaire (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1919: James O'Meara, British Battle of Britain Spitfire Flying Ace (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1920: Carl Schwende, Canadian Olympic fencer (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1920: Evgeny Dragunov, Russian weapons designer (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1920: Jacinta Marto, Portuguese saint (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1920: Robert Peary, American explorer (b. 1856) [category: Deaths]
• 1921: The Young Communist League of Czechoslovakia is founded. [category: Events]
• 1923: Forbes Burnham, President of Guyana (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1924: Gloria Vanderbilt, American socialite and clothing designer [category: Births]
• 1925: Heinz Kluncker, German trade union leader (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1925: Robert Altman, American film director (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1925: Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 44th Yokozuna (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1926: Adolf Bechtold, German footballer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1926: Richard Matheson, American author [category: Births]
• 1927: Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1927: Roy Cohn, American lawyer (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1927: Sidney Poitier, American actor [category: Births]
• 1928: Jean Kennedy Smith, American diplomat [category: Births]
• 1928: Roy Face, American baseball relief pitcher [category: Births]
• 1929: Amanda Blake, American actress (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1929: Manuel Díaz, Cuban fencer (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1930: Willie Cunningham, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1931: The Congress of the United States approves the construction of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California. [category: Events]
• 1932: Adrian Cristobal, Filipino writer (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1933: Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1934: Bobby Unser, American racing driver [category: Births]
• 1935: Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica. [category: Events]
• 1936: Larry Hovis, American actor (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1936: Marj Dusay, American actress [category: Births]
• 1936: Shigeo Nagashima, Japanese baseball player and coach [category: Births]
• 1936: Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1937: Nancy Wilson, American Jazz singer [category: Births]
• 1937: Robert Huber, German chemist, Nobel laureate [category: Births]
• 1937: Roger Penske, American racing driver, race team owner and entrepreneur [category: Births]
• 1938: Richard Beymer, American actor [category: Births]
• 1939: Frank Arundel, English footballer (d.1994) [category: Births]
• 1940: Jimmy Greaves, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1940: John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley, former chief executive at BP [category: Births]
• 1941: Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian singer [category: Births]
• 1941: Lim Kit Siang, Democratic Socialist opposition party in Malaysia [category: Births]
• 1941: Madame Bolduc, Canadian singer and songwriter (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: Charlie Gillett, British radio DJ [category: Births]
• 1942: Claude Miller, French film director and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1942: Mitch McConnell, American politician, senior senator of Kentucky [category: Births]
• 1942: Phil Esposito, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1942: Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace. [category: Events]
• 1943: Antonio Inoki, Japanese professional wrestler [category: Births]
• 1943: Mike Leigh, British film director [category: Births]
• 1943: Moshe Cotel, American composer and pianist [category: Births]
• 1943: American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies. [category: Events]
• 1943: The Parícutin volcano begins to form in Parícutin, Mexico. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1944: Robert de Cotret, Canadian politician (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1944: Willem van Hanegem, Dutch footballer and coach [category: Births]
• 1944: World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers. [category: Events]
• 1944: World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island. [category: Events]
• 1945: Alan Hull, English singer-songwriter (Lindisfarne) (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1945: Andrew Bergman, American screenwriter and film director [category: Births]
• 1945: Annu Kapoor, Indian actor [category: Births]
• 1945: Brion James, American actor (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1946: Brenda Blethyn, English actress [category: Births]
• 1946: J. Geils, American guitarist (The J. Geils Band) [category: Births]
• 1946: Richard Cocciante, French-Italian singer and songwriter [category: Births]
• 1946: Sandy Duncan, American singer and actress [category: Births]
• 1947: André van Duin, Dutch comedian [category: Births]
• 1947: Eggert Magnusson, Icelandic football executive [category: Births]
• 1947: Peter Osgood, English footballer (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1947: Peter Strauss, American actor [category: Births]
• 1948: Jennifer O'Neill, Brazilian-born actress [category: Births]
• 1948: Pierre Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1949: Ivana Trump, Czech-born American socialite [category: Births]
• 1949: Mab Segrest, American writer and activist [category: Births]
• 1950: Ken Shimura, Japanese performer and actor [category: Births]
• 1950: Tony Wilson, British journalist and impresario (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1950: Walter Becker, American guitarist (Steely Dan) [category: Births]
• 1951: Edward Albert, American actor (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1951: Gordon Brown, British Member of Parliament, Prime Minister (2007–2010) [category: Births]
• 1951: Phil Neal, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1951: Randy California, American guitarist (Spirit) (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1953: Poison Ivy, American musician (The Cramps) [category: Births]
• 1953: Riccardo Chailly, Italian conductor [category: Births]
• 1954: Anthony Head, English actor [category: Births]
• 1954: Billy Pontoni, Colombian musician [category: Births]
• 1954: Jon Brant, American musician (Cheap Trick) [category: Births]
• 1954: Patty Hearst, American socialite [category: Births]
• 1956: Charlie Adler, American voice actor [category: Births]
• 1956: Rick Green, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1956: The United States Merchant Marine Academy becomes a permanent Service Academy [category: Events]
• 1957: Glen Hanlon, Canadian ice hockey coach [category: Births]
• 1958: James Wilby, English actor [category: Births]
• 1959: Bill Gullickson, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1959: Scott Brayton, American race car driver (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1959: The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate. [category: Events]
• 1960: Joel Hodgson, American comedian (Mystery Science Theater 3000) [category: Births]
• 1960: Kee Marcello, Swedish guitarist (Europe) [category: Births]
• 1961: Imogen Stubbs, British actress [category: Births]
• 1961: Percy Grainger, Australian composer (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: Dwayne McDuffie, American writer of comic books and television (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1962: Kenn Nesbitt, American children's author [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1963: Charles Barkley, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1963: Ian Brown, English singer (The Stone Roses) [category: Births]
• 1963: Jon Lynn Christensen, former Nebraska Congressman [category: Births]
• 1963: Marilisa Xenogiannakopoulou, Greek politician [category: Births]
• 1963: Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1963: Jacob Gade, Danish composer(b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: French Stewart, American actor [category: Births]
• 1964: Rodney Rowland, American actor [category: Births]
• 1965: Ron Eldard, American actor [category: Births]
• 1965: Fred Immler, German actor (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts. [category: Events]
• 1966: Cindy Crawford, American model [category: Births]
• 1966: Chester Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Andrew Shue, American television actor [category: Births]
• 1967: David Herman, American comedian [category: Births]
• 1967: Katherine Soucie, American voice actress [category: Births]
• 1967: Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1967: Lili Taylor, American actress [category: Births]
• 1967: Paul Accola, Swiss alpine skier [category: Births]
• 1968: Ted Hankey, English darts player [category: Births]
• 1968: Anthony Asquith, British film director and writer (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1969: Danis Tanovic, Bosnian film director and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1969: Gedo, Japanese professional wrestler [category: Births]
• 1969: Siniša Mihajlović, Serbian footballer [category: Births]
• 1969: Tommy Vardell, American football player [category: Births]
• 1969: Vaginal Davis, American drag queen and performance artist [category: Births]
• 1969: Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Calpernia Addams, transgender activist [category: Births]
• 1971: Jari Litmanen, Finnish footballer [category: Births]
• 1971: Shawn McKenzie, American programmer [category: Births]
• 1971: The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert. [category: Events]
• 1972: Brent Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1972: K-OS, Canadian musician/rapper [category: Births]
• 1972: Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Walter Winchell, American journalist (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Kimberley Davies, Australian actress [category: Births]
• 1973: Rohan Alexander, Jamaican-born cricketer [category: Births]
• 1974: Kateřina Šišková, Czech tennis player [category: Births]
• 1974: Ophelie Winter, French actress [category: Births]
• 1974: David Monrad Johansen, Norwegian composer (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: Brian Littrell, American singer (Backstreet Boys) [category: Births]
• 1975: Liván Hernández, Cuban baseball player [category: Births]
• 1975: Niclas Wallin, Swedish hockey player [category: Births]
• 1976: Ed Graham, English drummer (The Darkness and Stone Gods) [category: Births]
• 1976: Gail Kim, Canadian professional wrestler [category: Births]
• 1976: Rohan Gavaskar, Indian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1976: Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: René Cassin, French judge, Nobel laureate (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Amal Hijazi, Lebanese singer and model [category: Births]
• 1977: Bartosz Kizierowski, Polish swimmer [category: Births]
• 1977: Stephon Marbury, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1977: T.J. Slaughter, American football player [category: Births]
• 1978: Jakki Degg, English glamour model/actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Jay Hernandez, American actor [category: Births]
• 1978: Julia Jentsch, German actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Lauren Ambrose, American actress [category: Births]
• 1978: The last Order of Victory is bestowed upon Leonid Brezhnev. [category: Events]
• 1980: Artur Boruc, Polish footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Imanol Harinordoquy, French rugby union footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Luis Gabriel Rey, Colombian footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Yūichi Nakamura, Japanese voice actor [category: Births]
• 1981: Chris Thile, American musician (Nickel Creek and Punch Brothers) [category: Births]
• 1981: Fred Jackson, American football player [category: Births]
• 1981: Tony Hibbert, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor, socialite (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Fait-Florian Banser, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Jason Hirsh, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Jose Morales, Puerto Rican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Justin Verlander, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Fritz Köberle, Austrian-Brazilian physician (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Brian McCann, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1984: Gilles Pagnon, French-German rugby player [category: Births]
• 1984: Ramzee Robinson, American football player [category: Births]
• 1985: Ryan Sweeney, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1985: Yulia Volkova, Russian singer (t.A.T.u.) [category: Births]
• 1985: Clarence "Ducky" Nash, American voice actor (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Diego Reis, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Unabomber: In Salt Lake City, a bomb explodes in a computer store. [category: Events]
• 1988: Jiah Khan, Indian actress [category: Births]
• 1988: Kealoha Pilares, American football player [category: Births]
• 1988: Rihanna, Barbadian singer [category: Births]
• 1988: The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War. [category: Events]
• 1989: Iga Wyrwal, Polish glamour model [category: Births]
• 1989: An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England [category: Events]
• 1991: Antonio Pedroza, English-Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: Giovanni Kyeremateng Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1992: A. J. Casson, Canadian painter (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Dick York, American actor (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Pierre Dervaux, French conductor, composer and pedagogue (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Roberto D'Aubuisson, Salvadoran politician (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Ernest L. Massad, U.S. Army general (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Solomon Asch, American psychologist (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Zachary Breaux, American jazz guitarist (b. 1960) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. [category: Events]
• 1999: Gene Siskel, American film critic (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Donella Meadows, American scientist (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Harry Jacunski, American football player (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Maurice Blanchot, French author (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Mushaf Ali Mir, Pakistani Chief of the Air Staff (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Orville L. Freeman, American politician (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Ty Longley, American guitarist (Great White and Samantha 7) (b. 1971) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 2005: Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: John Raitt, American actor (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Pam Bricker, American jazz singer (b. 1954) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Tom Willmore, English geometer (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 2006: Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Michael M. Ames, Canadian academic and professor (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish artist, member of the CoBrA movement (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Emily Perry, English actress (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Larry H. Miller, American businessman and owner of the Utah Jazz (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 2010: Alexander Haig, American soldier and politician (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Basavaraju Venkata Padmanabha Rao, Tollywood comedian, film producer and director (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 2012: Asar Eppel, Russian writer and translator (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Katie Hall, American politician (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: S. N. Lakshmi, Indian actress (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Eleutherius of Tournai [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Eucherius of Orleans [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: February 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: World Day of Social Justice (International) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Wulfric of Haselbury [category: Holidays and observances]