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February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; ... resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago.
Erica Garner, civil rights and Black Lives Matter activist [ 21] Alicia Garza, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. Ernest Green, civil rights activist, part of the Little Rock Nine. Fred Gray, civil rights lawyer. Shields Green, abolitionist. Dick Gregory, civil rights activist.
February 20: Day of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes in Ukraine ( 2014 ); Family Day in Canada (2023); Washington's Birthday / Presidents' Day in the United States (2023); Shrove Monday (Western Christianity, 2023) 1816 – Italian composer Gioachino Rossini 's opera buffa The Barber of Seville premiered at the Teatro Argentina in Rome to jeers from ...
The original Famous Birthdays website was created by Edward Morykwas, a Michigan schoolteacher, in 1996. [4] [5] [6]The site was updated to its current format in November 7, 2012, by Evan Britton, [7] who has since described the website as "Wikipedia for Generation Z".
Alonso de Ojeda(c.1466–c.1515) is noted as the discoverer of South America, as commander of the fleet with Juan de la Cosaand Amerigo Vespucci. John Cabot(c.1450–c.1500) was an Italian navigator who was the first European that sailed along to North American coast in 1497 since the Norse 500 years prior. Vasco da Gama(c.1460–1524).
20 10 February 236 – 20 January 250 (13 years, 344 days) St Fabian FABIANVS: Rome, Italia, Roman Empire [birth 5] Roman citizen. Divided the communities of Rome into seven districts, each supervised by a deacon. Feast day 20 January. Also revered as a saint in Eastern Christianity, with a feast day of 5 August. 21 March 251 – June 253 (2 ...
1753 - February 17 is followed by March 1 as Sweden moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar; 1792 - Birth of Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (d. 1876) 1874 - Death of Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (b. 1796) 1888 - Birth of Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969) February 18:
Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 46 presidencies. The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [ 4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the ...