Here’s a chronological timetable of events that occurred on this day in history. Let’s find out what happened today in history.
February 20
1792 The U.S. Postal Service is created.
1906 Russian troops seize large portions of Mongolia.
1918 The Soviet Red Army seizes Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.
1938 Hitler demands self-determination for Germans in Austria and Czechoslovakia.
1941 The United States sends war planes to the Pacific.
1943 German troops of the Afrika Korps break through the Kasserine Pass, defeating the U.S. forces.
1954 The Ford Foundation gives a $25 million grant to the Fund for Advancement of Education.
1959 The FCC applies the equal time rule to TV newscasts of political candidates.
1962 Mercury astronaut John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth.
1963 Moscow offers to allow on-site inspections of nuclear testing.
1965 Ranger 8 hits the moon and sends back 7,000 photos to the United States.
1968 The North Vietnamese army chief in Hue orders all looters to be shot on sight.
1982 Carnegie Hall in New York begins $20 million in renovations.
Born on February 20
1844 Ludwig Boltzmann, atomic physics engineer
1888 Marie Rambert, ballet dancer and director.
1894 Curt Richter, biologist.
1898 Jimmy Yancey, American blues pianist.
1901 Rene Dubos, microbiologist; he developed the first commercial antibiotic.
1901 Louis I. Kahn, architect.
1904 Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (1964-1980).
1924 Gloria Vanderbilt, fashion designer
1925 Robert Altman, film director (Nashville, The Player).
Source: History Net
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