February 20

February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 314 days remaining, 315 in leap years.

Events:

• 1962 - Mercury program mission Friendship 7, with astronaut John Glenn aboard, successfully orbits the earth.

Births:

• 1751 - Johann Heinrich Voß, poet (+ 1826)
• 1834 - Ramakrishna, Hindu reformer and philosopher (+ 1886)
• 1844 - Ludwig Boltzmann, physicist (+ 1906)
• 1887 - Carl Ebert, opera manager and director (+ 1980)
• 1898 - Enzo Ferrari, designer of cars (+ 1988)
• 1925 - Robert Altmann, film director
• 1925 - Heinz Kluncker, unionist
• 1925 - Richard Matheson, author
• 1927 - Sidney Poitier, actor
• 1946 - Jerome Geils of the J Geils band
• 1954 - Patty Hearst

Deaths:

• 1431 - Pope Martin V

Holidays and observances:

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See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

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