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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). Events. Pre-1600. 1339 ...
Stock market instability. COVID-19 recession. On 20 February 2020, stock markets across the world suddenly crashed after growing instability due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It ended on 7 April 2020. Beginning on 13 May 2019, the yield curve on U.S. Treasury securities inverted, [ 1] and remained so until 11 October 2019, when it reverted to ...
Presidents' Day, officially Washington's Birthday at the federal governmental level, is a holiday in the United States celebrated on the third Monday of February. It is often celebrated to honor all those who served as presidents of the United States and, since 1879, has been the federal holiday honoring Founding Father George Washington, who led the Continental Army to victory in the American ...
The Station nightclub fire occurred on the evening of February 20, 2003, at The Station, a nightclub and hard rock music venue located at 211 Cowesett Avenue in West Warwick, Rhode Island, United States, killing 100 people and injuring 230. During a concert by the rock band billed as "Jack Russell's Great White", an offshoot of the original ...
Armed conflicts and attacks. Syrian civil war, Northwestern Syria offensive (December 2019–March 2020), Turkish involvement in the Syrian Civil War. Turkish -backed rebels launch an offensive in the Idlib Governorate against government forces. A Russian air strike kills two Turkish soldiers and injures five others, while Turkey says a ...
February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 316 days remain until the end of the year (317 in leap years ).
Current events/2004 February 20. Stanislaw Ryniak (88), the first person imprisoned at the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, is buried in Wroclaw, Poland. (AP) Latvia 's president Vaira Vike-Freiberga has appointed Indulis Emsis, a Green party legislator, as the new Prime Minister, after the resignation of Einars Repše 's cabinet on 5 February.
February 8, 1981 (Sunday) Twenty-one people were killed and 54 seriously injured at a soccer football match at Piraeus in Greece. Olympiakos F.C. had defeated visiting AEK Athens F.C., 6–0, and fans rushing to a blocked stadium exit were trampled. This still stands as the worst tragedy in the history of Greek sport.