February 20th

The February 20th is the 51e Jour of the Année of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 314 days before the end of the year (315 so bissextile).

Events

1 with 1900

20th century

  • 1909 : Paris: In its “ Proclamation of futurism ”, the Italian Filippo Tommaso Marinetti share in war. Its proclamation, appears in Le Figaro of this day, explodes as a bomb. Judgment without call of all the nostalgic ones of the past, this text announces the dawn of modern times.

  • 1910 : Assassination of Egyptian the Prime Minister Copte Boutros Ghali.
  • 1912 : Zurich: The teachers who marry must resign.
  • 1919 : Poland: The Polish Diète confirms Pilsudski in its capacities.
  • 1928 :
    • Havana: Enclose Life Pan-American Conference: the Latin-American nations accentuated their pressure on the the United States in favor of a Pacific regulation of the conflicts.
    • the Middle East: Supported by the English, who recognize the independence of the new State, the emir Abd Al-Allâh ibn Husayn, king of the Hedjaz founds the Transjordanie with Amman for capital.
    • with Tokyo, first elections by the vote for all.
  • 1930 : Paris: Cabinet crises: reversed the February 17th, Tardieu is replaced this day by Camille Chautemps which resigns it… 21.
  • 1932: Andre Tardieu president of the French Council.
  • 1933 : 21e amendment of the constitution of the the United States, removing the Prohibition alcohol.
  • 1938 : Anthony Eden, secretary with the British Foreign Office, resigns in order to protest against the policy of appeasing with regard to Hitler carried out by the Prime Minister, Sir Neville Chamberlain.
  • 1942 :
    • clandestine Publication of the book “ the silence of the sea of vercors ” of Jean To burn, known as Vercors.
    • the Japan board unload with Bali, with the the Indies Dutchwomen.
  • 1944 : Batman and Robin appears for the first time in the American press.
  • 1945 : Emission of the first accounts - checks of family benefits by the Canadian government .
  • 1947 : Lord Mountbatten becomes viceroy of the the Indies.
  • 1959 : John Diefenbaker, Prime Minister of Canada, announces the abandonment of the program of the supersonic hunter Arrow , of Canadian design, under the pressure of the the United States.
  • 1962 : John Glenn achieves the first American space flight inhabited around the Globe. After three revolutions around the Ground, in its capsule put into orbit by a rocket Mercury-Atlases 6, it lands on sea in the Atlantique, in the East of the the Bahamas. The flight lasted exactly 4 hours, 56 minutes and 26 seconds.
  • 1964 : The Morocco and the Algérie sign a fine agreement putting at a frontier conflict.
  • 1965 : The American probe " To arrange 8" launched Cap Canaveral (Florida) the February 17th, is crushed on the the Moon after having transmitted more than 7.000 photographs.
  • 1966 : The Anne Mildred Brovig releases 16.800 tons of crude in Oil slick in the North Sea.
  • 1967 : The president indonésien Sukarno gives all his executive powers to the general Suharto, keeping only the presidential title.
  • 1971 : in Uganda, the major Idi Amin Dada appoints president and general.
  • 1972 : The colonel Kadhafi threat the Spain of a war to obtain the the Spanish Sahara.
  • 1980 : The the United States announce officially that they will boycott the Olympic Games of Moscow, following the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
  • 1983 : Vladimir Salnikov carries the world records of the 400 m freestyle to 3 mn 48 S 32.
  • 1985: The Parliament of Ireland authorizes the sale of the contraceptives.
  • 1986 :
    • the 5th French Television channel, already familiarly called “the Five”, opens the antenna.
    • the hunting Iraq ienne cuts down a civil aircraft which transported deputies Iran iens and an staff representative of the Ayatollah Khomeini: no survivors.
    • the Canadian government creates the literary prize of the Francophonie.
  • 1987 : the Arunachal Pradesh obtains the statute of State of the India.
  • 1988 :
    • the tumultuous Carnaval of Rio turns to the tragedy, whereas gigantic floods and landslides make some 275 dead and more than 12.000 homeless people in the State of Rio de Janeiro.
    • Franck Piccard gains a gold medal with the giant super slalom of Calgary at the time of the Olympic Games.
    • SC Eintracht Hamm carries the female world records indoor of 4 X 200 meters to 1:32.55
    • Cornelia Oschkenat carries the female world records indoor of the 50 meters hedges to 6 S 58
  • 1989: the Commission of the rights of the person rules that the women are acceptable at the stations of combat in the Canadian armed .
  • 1990 : The month of February 1990 is hottest since 1873. One recorded 18,5° in the shade with Paris.
  • 1993 : Julio César Chávez preserves its championship of the world of the light supers vis-a-vis Greg Haugen.
  • 1994 : a British research team discovered on the Île Delma , with the United Arab Emirates, of the vestiges of old dwelling of at least 7000 years.
  • 1995 : with Bombay, a doctor is stopped for traffic of human organ after an operation (transplantation of a kidney) invoiced ten thousand dollars.
  • 1996 : The British government informs that 10 people were reached by a new form of the disease of Creutzfeldt-Jakob, called atypical MCJ, whose 8 already found death.
  • 1998 : A Séisme of 5,7 on the open scales of Richter shakes the Afghanistan.
  • 1999 :
  • 2000:
    • in Colombia-British, Ujjal Dosanjh becomes Prime Minister, the first with the Canada which is originating in the India.
    • in India, twenty-two police officers are killed by the explosion of a landmine in the State of Madhya Pradesh. The attack, not asserted is allotted to PWG , movement of extreme right-hand side. The February 18th, seven police officers had been killed in the State of Andhra Pradesh.
    • an immense operation of raking is undertaken by KFOR to bring back the calm one to Mitrovica, city under French control of the north of the Kosovo.
    • Wilson Kipketer carries the world records indoor of the 1.000 meters with 2 mn 14 S 96

21e century

  • 2001 :

    • the Filipino authorities seize more than 2 billion dollars in false American treasury bills, as well as a quantity of the Argentinian treasures and German, in the area of Mindanao.
    • the Spanish customs officers seize 5 tons of Cocaïne on board a trawler in the islands the Canaries. The Drogue is estimated at 424 million dollars.
    • Required in Europe for murder, Gaetano Amodeo is stopped with Montreal; the office of county of the federal minister Alfonso Gagliano had followed the file of immigration of his wife.
    • with the Brazil, the catch of eight thousand hostages to the prison Carandiru, largest of Latin America, shows the death of fifteen prisoners.
    • the expertises on male DNA interfered with the trace hand ensanglantée beside the inscription “Omar has to kill me” where the lifeless body of Mrs. Marchal was found cannot be identified.
    • the Great Britain announces the discovery of new hearths of Foot-and-mouth disease with the the United Kingdom.
    • the steamer Mistral fails on a coral reef between the Dominique and St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre with 1.700 passengers and team members.
  • 2002 :
    • In a Letter with the French faxed since his residence, the Prime Minister Lionel Jospin announces its candidature for the presidential election publicly.
    • a train connecting Cairo with Assouan to the south of the Egypt is devastated by a fire: 373 people perished in the greatest railway catastrophe of the history.
    • After six days of great violences which culminated with death, 19, of six Israelis in the West Bank, the Israeli armed lance in reprisals a series with raids to Nablus and for the first time against the offices of Yasser Arafat to Gaza; fifteen Palestinians will find death.
    • Anni Friesinger carries the world records and Olympic of the 1.500 m female of speed skating to 1 mn 54 S 2/100.
    • a Palindrome is a word or a sentence which can be read in the two directions, the same mechanism which can apply to the numbers: a number palindrome guard the same value when one takes his figures with back. February 20th, 2002 (2/20/2002) is thus a date palindrome.
    • Valery Giscard d'Estaing inaugurates with 1.200 pupils of CM1 and CM2 the park with topic on the Volcan S, in the middle of the regional natural park of the volcanos, close to Clermont-Ferrand: “Vulcania”.
    • Lee Tak-sun , a pisciculturist of HongKong, presents “Pine Day Kam” (" Full with or"), a red fish a 37,2 cm length and a weight of 1,54 kg.
  • 2003 :
    • Paroxysm in the countryside anti-Frenchwoman on the Iraqi file, the Tabloïd English The Sun distributes free to Paris a titrated special edition “Chirac is a worm”.
    • For the second time in a few days, fire devastates a nightclub of West Warwick, in the Rhode Island, making ninety eight dead.
    • the twenty-second Franco-African top brings together with Paris the representatives of fifty-two country of Africa.
  • 2005 :
    • the Spanish say " oui" with a very vast majority with the project of European Constitution.
    • Victoire of the Socialist party of Jose Socrates with the legislative elections Portuguese.
    • the Israeli government approves the withdrawal of the Gaza Strip and four colonies of the West Bank as well as the new layout of the southern part of the " barrier of sécurité".

Births

  • 1745 : Johann Peter Solomon, Type-setter, Violonist and German Leader . († November 25th 1815)

  • 1775: Guy-Victor Duperré, baron and admiral French.
  • 1791 : Carl Czerny, Austrian Type-setter. († July 15th 1857)
  • 1810: Henri Martin, politician and historian French.
  • 1844 : Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist. († September 5th 1906)
  • 1875: Marie Marvingt, aviatrice († 1963)
  • 1879: Bombita (Ricardo Torres Reina), Spanish Matador († November 29th 1936).
  • 1887 : Vincent Massey, 18ème General governor of Canada. († December 30th 1967)
  • 1888: Georges Bernanos, writer French († July 5th 1948).
  • 1894 : Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, writer and playwright Polish († March 2nd 1980).
  • 1898 : Enzo Ferrari, car manufacturer. Italy N, († August 14th 1988).
  • 1902 : Ansel Adams, American photographer .
  • 1912 : Pierre Swell, writer French.
  • 1921 : Joseph A. Walker, test pilot and American astronaut († June 8th 1966)
  • 1924: Sidney Poitier, American actor .
  • 1925 : Robert Altman, realizer, producer and American scenario writer († November 20th 2006).
  • 1926 : Roland Peugeot, businessman French.
  • 1927 : Hubert de Givenchy, high dressmaker French.
  • 1932 : Jean Garretto, journalist radio operator French.
  • 1941 : Alan Furst, writer states-unien.
  • 1942 :
    • Claude Miller, scenario writer and scenario writer French.
    • Mitch McConnell, senator of the United States
  • 1943
    • Carlos, singer French.
    • Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov, Russian cosmonaut
  • 1945: Gerard Hamel, Political man French, born with Sourdun (Seine-et-Marne).
  • 1946 :
    • Gabrielle Louis-Medical student, Political woman French, born with the Mould (Guadeloupe).
    • Richard Cocciante, singer French.
  • 1947 : Jean-Marc Lefranc, Political man French, born with Grandcamp-the-Baths (Apple-brandy).
  • 1950 : Walter Becker, American guitarist .
  • 1951 : Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
  • 1954: Vasili Tsibliyev, Russian cosmonaut
  • 1960: Mark Reilly (Matt bianco), British singer
  • 1966: Cindy Crawford, American model and actress .
  • 1967 : Kurt Cobain, singer and leader of the group Nirvana († April 5th 1994).
  • 1972 : Cristina Sánchez, Spanish Matador .
  • 1974 : Ophélie Winter, singer and French actress.
  • 1976 : Marek Nikl, Czech Football or.
  • 1978 : Julia Jentsch, German actress .
  • 1985 : Yulia Olegovna Volkova, Russian singer.
  • 1988 : Rihanna, Barbadian singer

Death

  • 1171 : Conan IV of Brittany, duke of Brittany (° 1138)
  • 1194: Tancrède de Lecce, king de Sicile (°C. 1140)
  • 1431: Martin V ( Oddone Colonna ), pope (° 1368)
  • 1473: Hardouin IX of With a grid, baron of With a grid, Rochecorbon and $the Hague, lord of Beaucay, Rillé and Montils-the-Turns, adviser and Chamberlain of the king Louis XI and Seneshal of Saintonge.
  • 1513 : Christian II of Denmark, king de Damemark (° July 2nd 1455)
  • 1524: Tecún Umán, sovereign Quiche
  • 1618: Philippe of Orange-Nassau, prince d' Orange (° December 19th 1554)
  • 1626: John Dowland, type-setter English (° 1563)
  • 1695: Johann Ambrosius Bach, father of Jean-Sebastien Bach
  • 1762: Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (° February 17th 1723)
  • 1771: Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan, mathematician and astronomer French (° November 26th 1678)
  • 1773: Charles-Emmanuel III of Sardinia, king de Sardaigne (° April 27th 1701)
  • 1778: Laura Bassi, Italian physician (° October 31st 1711)
  • 1790: Joseph II of the Holy roman Empire, Germanic Roman Emperor (° March 13rd 1741)
  • 1803: Miss Dumesnil, French actress (° January 2nd 1713)
  • 1810: Andreas Hofer, personality the Tyrol ienne (° November 22nd 1767)
  • 1871: Paul Kane, Irish painter (° September 3rd 1810)
  • 1893: Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard, military states-unien (° May 28th 1818)
  • 1895: Douglas, free trade Frederick states-unien (° 1818)
  • 1907: Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize of chemistry 1906 (° September 28th 1852)
  • 1914: Paul Goat, sculptor, survivor of disaster RMS Titanic.
  • 1916 : Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish pacifist writer and, Nobel Prize of peace 1908 (° October 27th 1844)
  • 1920: Robert Peary, exploring states-unien (° May 6th 1856)
  • 1941: Bolduc ( Mary Pink Anna Through Bolduc ), author-compositrice-interprets, harmonicist, Violon Québécois ist (° 1894).
  • 1961 : Percy Grainger, Australian type-setter (° July 8th 1882)
  • 1966: Chester Nimitz, admiral states-unien (° February 24th 1885)
  • 1968: Anthony Asquith, British realizer (° November 9th 1902)
  • 1969: Ernest Ansermet, Swiss leader (° November 11th 1883)
  • 1972: Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physician, Nobel Prize of physics 1963 (° June 28th 1906)
  • 1976: Rene Cassin, lawyer French, Nobel Prize of peace 1968 (° October 5th 1887)
  • 1980: J.B. Rhine, scientific states-unien which studied the Parapsychologie (° September 29th 1895)
  • 1987: Edgar P. Jacobs ( Edgard Felix Pierre Jacobs ) Belgian author of Cartoon, (° March 30th 1904).
  • 1989 : Harold Christensen, dancer, choreographer and American ballet master . (° December 25th 1904).
  • 1992 :
    • Roberto D' Aubuisson, Salvadorian political personality (° August 23rd 1944)
    • Dick York, actor states-unien (° September 4th 1928)
  • 1993: Ferruccio Lamborghini, Automobile manufacturer (° April 28th 1916)
  • 1996:
    • Solomon Asch, psychological states-unien of Polish origin (° September 14th 1907)
    • Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese type-setter (° October 8th 1930)
  • 1999: Sarah Kane, British playwright (° February 3rd 1971)
  • 2000: Anatoli Sobtchak, Russian political personality (° August 10th 1937)
  • 2001: Jacques Brenner, French writer (° September 16th 1922)
  • 2003: Maurice Blanchot, writer, philosopher, French (° September 22nd 1907)
  • 2005: Hunter S. Thompson ( Hunter Stockton Thompson ), American writer
  • 2006: Lucjan Wolanowski, journalist, writer and traveller Polish (° February 26th 1920)
  • 2007:
    • Zilla Huma Usman, political personality Pakistan ease (° September 16th 1971)
    • Edouard Zarifian, French psychiatrist

Celebrations

Festivals (First names)

  • Aimee (Acme, Aimie, Amata, Amaya, Amicie, Ammie).
  • Agathon.
  • Valère.

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Agathon († 681), pope (79e) of 678 with 681
  • Bessarion de Scété (4th century), ascetic, disciple of S. Antoine and Macaire the Large one.
  • Eleuthère de Tournai († 531), bishop of Turned, friend of Medard de Noyon
  • Eucher of Orleans († 738), bishop of Orleans
  • Leon de Catane († 787), bishop of Catane, miracle-worker.
  • Mildrède de Thanet (7th century), abbess in the island of Thanet in England.
  • Sadoth de Séleucie-Ctésiphon († 342), bishop of Séleucie-Ctésiphon, martyr.
  • Valère († 504), or Vallier. Confessor and bishop in the county of Foix. Gregoire Large the evokes it.

Catholic saints of the day

  • Aimee of Sitted († 1252), niece of Claire of Sitted, virgin.
  • Conrad († 1351), hermit
  • Happy No5el Pinot (1747 - 1794), priest, priest of the Louroux-Béconnais, martyr with Angers.
  • Happy Thècle (10th century)
  • Ulrich († 1154), hermit close to Heselborough

Orthodoxe saint of the day

  • Crow and Bassien de Pskov († 1570), monks orthodoxe, apostles of the Latvia and martyrs.

See too

  • February 20th in sport
  • February 20th in the railroads

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