20 Februar

The 20t o Februar is the 51t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 314 days ti come (315 in lowp years).

 Events 
 1472 - Orkney an the Shetland Islands are annexed tae the croun o Scotland.
 1547 - King Edward VI o Ingland is crouned.
 1872 - New York Ceety's Metropolitan Museum o Airt opens.
 1877 - Swan Lake, bi Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, premieres at the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow.
 1878 - Pape Leo XIII is electit.
 1913 - Biggin work on Canberra, the new caipital o Australie, begins.
 1929 - American Samoa becomes a Unitit States Territory.
 1965 - The Ranger 5 spacecraft crashes intae the Muin.
 1986 - The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft.
 1987 - Mizoram becomes a state o Indie.
 1992 - Fitbaa: The Inglis Premier League is foondit.
 2010 - Floods an mudslides kill 43 fowk on the Portuguese island o Madeira.
 2016 - David Cameron announces a 23 Juin referendum tae decide the Unitit Kinrick's membership o the European Union.

 Births 
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 1844 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrick pheesicist an philosopher (d. 1906)
 1901 - Muhammad Naguib, Preses o Egyp (d. 1984)
 1902 - Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984)
 1904 - Alexei Kosygin, Soviet politeecian (d. 1980)
 1926 - Richard Matheson, American film writer (d. 2013)
 1927 - Sidney Poitier, American actor an activist
 1940 - Jimmy Greaves, Inglis fitbawer
 1942 - Mitch McConnell, American politeecian
 1946 - Brenda Blethyn, Inglis actress
 1949 - Ivana Trump, Czech-American businesswoman an socialite
 1951 - Gordon Brown, Scots politeecian, umwhile Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick
 1966 - Cindy Crawford, American model
 1967 - Kurt Cobain, American muisicker (Nirvana) (d. 1994)
 1971 - Jari Litmanen, Finnish fitbawer
 1978 - Lauren Ambrose, American actress
 1980 - Artur Boruc, Pols fitbawer
 1988 - Rihanna, Barbadian sangster

 Daiths 
 1431 - Pape Martin V (b. 1368)
 1790 - Joseph II, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 1741)
 1895 - Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist (b. 1818)
 1916 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swadish jurnalist an politeecian (b. 1844)
 1920 - Robert Peary, American splorer (b. 1856)
 2010 - Alexander Haig, Unitit States Secretar o State (b. 1924)
 2017 - Vitaly Churkin, Roushie diplomat (b. 1952)

 Halidays 
 Warld Day o Social Juistice
 Rihanna Day (Barbados)

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