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.
- 1792 –The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.
- 1813 –Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán during the Battle of Salta.
- 1835 –Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Olustee occurs – the largest battle fought in Florida during the war.
- 1877 –Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
- 1877 –The world’s first professional sports league, the International Association for Professional Base Ball Players is founded in Pittsburgh.
- 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.
- 1933 –Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party’s upcoming election campaign.
- 1942 –Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America’s first World War II flying ace.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: The “Big Week” began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
- 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.
- 1988 –The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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