20 February - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History
According to Gregory calendar, February 20 is the day number 51 in a given year. February 20 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
February 20 in History - Top Historical Events
| Year | Event / Incidence / Incident |
| 1472 | James III of Scotland official annexed Orkney and Shetland from Christian I of Denmark as part of a dowry payments Christian wood after his daughter Margaret married James. |
| 1677 | France defeated the Spanish army at Hetty and French imperialism began on the region. |
| 1685 | French colonists, led by Robert de La Salle, landed at Matagorda Bay in present-day Texas, which later allowed the United States to claim the region as part of the Louisiana Purchase. |
| 1707 | The Mughal ruler Aurangzeb died in Ahmednagar. |
| 1710 | Johann Willem Friso Groningen was made Viceroy of the Netherlands. |
| 1737 | French Finance Minister Chauvelin resigned. |
| 1745 | Jacobic troops captured Fort Augustus, Scotland. |
| 1768 | First American Chartered Fire Insurance Company opened. |
| 1792 | The Postal Services Act, the establishment of the United States Post Office Department, was signed by President George Washington. |
| 1810 | Tyrolean rebel leader Andreas Hoffer was executed. |
| 1811 | Austria was declared bankrupt. |
| 1816 | Italian composer Gioachino Rossini's opera buffa The Barber of Seville was hissed by the audience during its debut at the Teatro Argentina in Rome. |
| 1827 | At the Battle of Itujingo, Peso do Rosario) a contingent of the Brazilian Imperial Army participated in the battle with Argentine-Uruguayan troops. |
| 1846 | Polish insurgents led an uprising in the Free City of Krakówto incite a fight for national independence that was put down by the Austrian Empire nine days later. |
| 1846 | The British captured Lahore. |
| 1864 | American Civil War-The Union suffered one of its bloodiestlosses at the Battle of Olustee near Lake City, Florida. |
| 1868 | The first weekly issue of Amrit Bazar Patrika was published in Bengali. |
| 1869 | Tennessee Governor W. C. Brownlow declared martial law in the Ku Klux Klan crisis. |
| 1872 | New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, today the largest art museum in the United States with a collection of over two million works of art, opened. |
| 1872 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art was inaugurated in New York City. |
| 1873 | The University of California opened its first medical school. |
| 1915 | San Francisco inaugurates the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition. |
| 1921 | The Young Communist League of Czechoslovakia was established. |
| 1943 | A fissure opened in a cornfield in the Mexican state of Michoacán and turned into the cinder cone volcano Parícutin , growing 424 m (1,391 ft) in eight years. |
| 1943 | The Saturday Evening Post published the first of NormanRockwell's Four Freedoms, some of the most widely distributed painting sever produced, in support of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's 'Four Freedoms'. |
| 1947 | British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced that Britain would leave India by June 1948. |
| 1950 | The elder brother of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and nationalist leader Sharat Chandra Bose died. |
| 1959 | The Canadian government under Prime Minister John Diefenbaker Cancelled then Avro CF-105 Arrow interceptor aircraft program amid much political debate. |
| 1959 | Canada cancels the Aviro Arrow program. |
| 1965 | NASA's Ranger 8 spacecraft successfully transmitted 7,137photographs of the Moon in the final 23 minutes of itsmission before crashing into Mare Tranquillitatis. |
| 1965 | NASA-launched Ranger landed on the moon, sending photos and necessary data. |
| 1968 | Dr. PK at KEM Hospital in Mumbai Sen underwent a heart transplant for the first time. |
| 1976 | Bombay High started producing crude oil for commercial use. |
| 1983 | 600 people died due to widespread violence in the north-eastern state of Assam ahead of the assembly elections. |
| 1987 | Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh became the 23rd and 24th states of India. |
| 1988 | The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast voted to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War. |
| 1994 | 3 Afghans take 70 children hostage on February 20, 1994. |
| 1997 | San Francisco Giants Barry Bonds signs record 22.9 million dollar two year contract on February 20, 1997. |
| 1998 | UN Secretary General Kofi Anna lands in Baghdad on February 20, 1998 for peace negotiations. |
| 1998 | At the age of 15, American figure skater Tara Lipinski becamethe youngest gold medal winner in the history of the Winter OlympicGames. |
| 2002 | 373 died due to fire in a moving train in Cairo, Egypt). |
| 2003 | Fire at the Station rock club in Rode Island kills nearly 100 people on February 2003. |
| 2003 | The Thirteenth Non-Aligned Movement Summit began in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
| 2008 | US navy destroys a US spy satellite with missile on February 20, 2008. |
| 2009 | The Tamil Tigers attempted to crash two aircraft packed withC-4 in suicide attacks on Colombo, Sri Lanka, but the planes were shotdown before they reached their targets. |
| 2010 | At least 32 people died and 68 were injured from floods and mudslides on the island of Madira, Portugal on February 20, 2010. |
| 2010 | Severe flooding and mudslides on the island of Madeira,Portugal, killed 42 people. |
| 2011 | North Korea raises concern regarding nuclear testing on February 20,2011 Reports show they have dug tunnels at a nuclear test site located in Punggye-ri, North Hamyong Province. |
| 2012 | Scientists regenerated specimens from Silene Stenophylla, a 31, 800 year old piece of fruit on February 20, 2012, substantially surpassing previous records for the oldest plant regenerated. |
| 2013 | Estonia became the first country in the world to establish a national electric car charging network on February 20. With this method cars can be charged in less than 30 minutes. |
| 2014 | Germany’s design company Art+ Com saved said Google on February 20. It claimed that Internet Company infringed on its patented spatial mapping technology by incorporating its features into Google Earth. |
| 2015 | 49 people died in two train collisions in the city of Rafz, Switzerland. |
Famous Birthdays of February 20:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
| 1938 | Wiley W. Hilburn / Journalist / United States of America |
| 1889 | Hulusi Behçet / Physician / Turkey |
| 1991 | Antonio Pedroza / Footballer / United Kingdom |
| 1753 | Louis-Alexandre Berthier / Politician / France |
| 1926 | María de la Purísima Salvat Romero / Nun / Spain |
| 1866 | Carl Westman / Architect / Sweden |
| 1987 | Luke Burgess / Rugby Player / United Kingdom |
| 1895 | Louis Zborowski / Engineer / United Kingdom |
| 1966 | Cindy Crawford / Model / United States of America |
| 1949 | Eddie Hemmings / Cricketer / United Kingdom |
| 1988 | Zia Khan / Actress / India |
| 1934 | Bobby Unser / Racing Car Driver / United States of America |
| 1967 | Paul Accola / Alpine Skier / Switzerland |
| 1937 | Robert Huber / Academic / Germany |
| 1943 | Mike Leigh / Writer / United Kingdom |
| 1978 | Lauren Ambrose / Actress / United States of America |
| 1951 | Gordon Brown / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 1967 | Andrew Shue / Actor / United States of America |
| 1964 | French Stewart / Actor / United States of America |
| 1985 | Julia Volkova / Actress / Russia |
| 1857 | A. P. Lucas / Cricketer / United Kingdom |
| 1975 | Niclas Wallin / Ice Hockey Player / Sweden |
| 1946 | J. Geils / Writer / United States of America |
| 1991 | Giovanni Kyeremateng / Footballer / Italy |
| 1745 | Henry James Pye / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 1956 | Annu Kapoor / Actor / India |
| 1946 | Sandy Duncan / Actress / United States of America |
| 1985 | Ryan Sweeney / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1844 | Joshua Slocum / Sailor / Canada |
| 1963 | Ian Brown / Writer / United Kingdom |
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