20 February In History - What Happened On This Day

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.

Event Year	Incident/Event
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'.
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.
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.
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.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1947	British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced that Britain would leave India by June 1948.
1987	Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh became the 23rd and 24th states of India.

Day/Observance	Level
World Day of Social Justice	International Day
World Day of Social Justice	International Day

Birth Year	Name/Category/Country
1901	Ramakrishna Ranga Rao of Bobbili / Politician / India
1921	Rao Virendra Singh / Politician / India
1935	N. Janardhana Reddy / Politician / India
1953	Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar / Emperor / India
1956	Annu Kapoor / Actor / India
1973	Priyanshu Chatterjee / Actor / India
1988	Jiah Khan / Actress / India
1988	Zia Khan / Actress / India

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