What are the important events that happened on February 20? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
February 20: Facts & Myths About This Day
February 20 is the 51st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 314 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 7, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,740,009,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘pentacontahenagon’ day.
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Pisces is the zodiac 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 362 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,444 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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February 20 Historical Events
- 1835 –Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake.
- 1877 –Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
- 1913 –King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
- 1920 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- 1933 –Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party’s upcoming election campaign.
- 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.
- 1959 –The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
- 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.
- 1978 –The last Order of Victory is bestowed upon Leonid Brezhnev.
- 1989 –An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England
Who were born on February 20?
- 1745 –Henry James Pye, English poet (d. 1813)
- 1899 –Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman (d. 1992)
- 1918 –Leonore Annenberg, American billionaire (d. 2009)
- 1936 –Marj Dusay, American actress
- 1944 –Robert de Cotret, Canadian politician (d. 1999)
- 1960 –Kee Marcello, Swedish guitarist
- 1973 –Rohan Alexander, Jamaican-born cricketer
- 1975 –Brian Littrell, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
- 1984 –Ramzee Robinson, American football player
- 1989 –Iga Wyrwal, Polish glamour model
Who died on February 20?
- 702 –K'inich Kan B'alam II, king of the Maya state of Palenque (b. 635)
- 1194 –King Tancred of Sicily (b. 1138)
- 1258 –Al-Musta’sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad (b. 1213)
- 1905 –Jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain
- 1970 –Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (b. 1885)
- 1993 –Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1916)
- 1997 –Zachary Breaux, American jazz guitarist (b. 1960)
- 1999 –Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971)
- 2003 –Ty Longley, American guitarist (Great White) (b. 1971)
- 2005 –Tom Willmore, English geometer (b. 1919)
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