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2015 (Friday) February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 314 days remain until the end of the year (315 in leap years ).
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".
1734 – John Floyer, English physician and author (b. 1649) 1743 – Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian organist and composer (b. 1657) 1750 – Bakar of Georgia (b. 1699) 1761 – Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French priest and historian (b. 1682) 1768 – Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, English field marshal and politician (b. 1685)
The Battle of Winwick was fought on 19 August 1648 between a Scottish Royalist army and a Parliamentarian army during the Second English Civil War. The Scottish army invaded north-west England and was attacked and defeated at Preston on 17 August. The surviving Royalists fled south, closely pursued. Two days later, hungry, cold, soaking wet ...
February. February is the second month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The month has 28 days in common years or 29 in leap years, with the 29th day being called the leap day. It is the first of five months not to have 31 days (the other four being April, June, September, and November) and the only one to have fewer than 30 days.
The history of Indonesia has been shaped by its geographic position, natural resources, a series of human migrations and contacts, wars and conquests, as well as by trade, economics and politics. Indonesia is an archipelagic country of 17,000 to 18,000 islands stretching along the equator in Southeast Asia .
1835 – Henry Hunt, English farmer and politician (b. 1773) 1839 – François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier, Canadian rebel (b. 1803) 1842 – Archibald Menzies, Scottish surgeon and botanist (b. 1754) [69] 1844 – Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1757)
1707 – Humphrey Hody, English scholar and theologian (b. 1659) 1709 – François de la Chaise, French priest (b. 1624) 1751 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (b. 1665) 1770 – Charles Yorke, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1722)