20. February
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The 20. February is the 51. Day of the Gregorian calendar.
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Events
- 1437: James I., King of Scotland is murdered by Meuchelmördern under the guidance of walter, Earl OF Atholl.
- 1472: Orkney and the Shetlandinseln are annektiert by the Scottish crown.
- 1547: Eduard VI. from England becomesin the Westminster Abbey to the king crowned.
- 1929: American Samoa becomes a territory of the USA.
- 1935: Abolition of the customs border between the Saarland and the German Reich
- 1943: In Mexico the volcano Paricutin develops.
- 1952: That Member of the Bundestag „Dr. Franz judge “(SRP) becomes under the reproach, in truth the former NSDAP - gau principal establishment leader of Saxonia Fritz Rössler to be, in the German Parliament Buildings arrests.
- 1967: Introduction of an own nationality in the GDR by the people chamber
- 1974: The German Bundestag ratifies the nuclear weapon check contract.
- 1979: The Cassis de Dijon decision is announced by the European Court of Justice.
- 1980: First choice in Simbabwe after the new condition.
- 1994: In Switzerland the people initiative becomes “alpine initiative “the protectionthe alps assumed
- 2000: Parliamentary elections in Kirgisistan.
- 2001: First local elections in Yemen.
- 2004: After the exclusion of thousands liberal candidate the election turnout sinks with the Iranian parliamentary elections according to official data on 50,57%.
- 2005: UN-Flüchtlingshochkommissar Ruud Lubbers withdraws from its office, after internal investigation report was published because of sexual annoyance. (Wikinews articles)
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economics
- 1857: The shipping company of north German Lloyd is created in Bremen.
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science and technology
- 1962: John Glenn circles as first Americans the earth in the universe.
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culture
- 1724: „Giulio Cesare “, an Italian opera of George Friedrich trade is uraufgeführt in London.
- 1816: In the Teatro Argentina in Rome „that is uraufgeführt bar beer by Sevilla “ by Gioacchino Rossini and falls through due to jealous disturbances of Giovanni Paisiello , only the second conception as shining success is celebrated.
- 1837: Premiere of the amusing opera „the twoContactors “ by Albert Lortzing at the city theatre in Leipzig.
- 1852: Premiere of the amusing opera „forest flower “ of Johann Friedrich Kittl.
- 1872: Metropolitan the museum OF kind is opened in New York town center.
- 1886: Premierethe opera „Urvasi “ of William Kienzl in Dresden.
- 1907: Premiere of the opera „the legend of the invisible city Kitesh and the virgin Fewronija “ (Orig.: „Skasani for each o newidimom degrees of kit ash i dewe Febronii “) of Nikolai Andrejewitsch Rimski Korsakow at the yard opera in sank Petersburg.
- 1909: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published in that Paris newspaper Le Figaro its futuristic communist manifesto and creates thereby the Futurismus.
- 1926: In Berlin first becomes Green week opens
- 1943: Premiere of the opera the intelligent one by Carl Orff in Frankfurt/Main.
- 1963: In the citizens of Berlin free people stage finds under the direction of Erwin Piscator the premiere of the play „the deputy “ by Rolf Hochhuth instead of.
- 1995: The French film director Bertrand Tavernier wins the golden bear with the international film festivals in Berlin.
- 2000: US - American film director Paul Thomas Anderson one wins that with the international film festivals in Berlin Golden bears.
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religion
- 1900: The Paderborner bishop Hubert Sigmar is inthronisiert as a new archbishop of Cologne.
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disasters
- 1799: the Blackbrook dam with Blackbrook and Shepshed in Leicestershire, Great Britain breaks.
- 1946: Mountain-came, Germany. Pit misfortune in the bill Grimberg 3/4. 405 dead ones.
- 2002: Train accident proximity Cairo, Egypt. Over 370 dead ones.
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sport
- 1976: Muhammad Ali won its Boxkampf and world champion title in the heavyweight approximately Jean Pierre Coopman in the Roberto Clemente Coliseum, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, by K.O.
- 1999: Vitali Klitschko wins its Boxkampf against Ismael Youla in Hamburg, Germany, by technical K.O.
Entries from athlete IC world records are under thatrespective discipline under Leichtathletik; for events within the range formula 1 see there.
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born
- 1469: Thomas Cajetan, cardinal
- 1523: January Blahoslav, Czech human, Grammatiker and composer
- 1678: Johann Friedrich Riederer, GermanMore closely
- 1726: William Prescott, US-American Colonel
- 1749: George Karl von Fechenbach, German bishop
- 1751: Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet and translator
- 1759: Johann Christian Reil, German physician (Stadtphysikus) and professor in resoundsand Berlin
- 1761: Ludwig Abeille, German pianist and composer
- 1768: Vinzenz Ferrerius of Bianchi, duke of Casalanza, Austrian general
- 1770: Ferdinando Carulli, Italian composer and guitarist
- 1772: Isaac Chauncey, US-American naval officer
- 1775: Victor Guy Duperré, baron and French admiral
- 1785: Karl von Hohenzollern Sigmaringen, German aristocrats
- 1794: William Carl clay/tone, Irish writer
- 1802: Charles Augusts de Bériot, Belgian violonist, music paedagogue and composer
- 1803: Friedrich TheodorMerrily, Swiss composer
- 1804: Johann Anton Friedrich Baudri, bishop and Generalvikar in Cologne
- 1810: Henry Martin, French historian and politician
- 1811: Henry Hastings Sibley, US-American politician (democrat)
- 1812: Ludwig Steub, GermanWriter
- 1819: Alfreds E, Swiss politician and railway pioneer
- 1819: Ludwig Gerhard Gustav Simon, German politician
- 1820: Henri Vieuxtemps, French violonist and composer
- 1821: Nile Johan Andersson one, Swedish Botaniker
- 1825: Geoffrey ThomasPhipps Hornby, British admiral
- 1828: Charles Wimar, painter
- 1834: Ramakrishna, hinduistischer Reformer and philosopher
- 1835: Eleonore princess of Reuss, Swiss Reformatorin
- 1842: Joseph Victor Widmann, Swiss writer and journalist
- 1844: Joshua Slocum, sailor and travel writer
- 1844: Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist
- 1844: Michael Munkácsy, Hungarian painter of realism
- 1851: Ernst von Heydebrand and the Lasa, German politician
- 1866: Carl Westman, Swedish architect
- 1868: Smelling pool of broadcasting corporations Hessian, German zoologist
- 1874: Otto Lauffer, German Volkskundler and culture historian
- 1875: Marie Marvingt, French female pilot with put down flight examination
- 1877: Georgi Jakowlewitsch Sedow, Russian naval officer and polar researcher
- 1882: Margarethe Faas Hardegger, Swiss Frauenrechtlerin and Gewerkschafterin
- 1882: Nicolai Hartmann, German philosopher
- 1883: Lucie polite, German actress
- 1886: Béla Kun, Hungarian politician
- 1888: Georges Bernanos, French writer
- 1890: Ferdinand autumn, German EvangelistTheologian
- 1890: George Thomas, German general
- 1894: Curt Corrinth, German poet, Romancier, dramatist and film script author
- 1894: Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Polish writer
- 1895: Karl Pinnow, German resistance fighter against Adolf Hitler
- 1896: Henri deLubac, German theologian and Jesuit
- 1897: Gerhart Eisler, German journalist and politician
- 1898: Jimmy Yancey, US-American musician
- 1899: Emmy Meyer Laule, German politician
- 1901: Of Louis I. Punt, US-American architect and town planner
- 1902: Ansel Adam, US-amerikanischer photographer
- 1902: Bertus Freese, Netherlands football national player
- 1902: William Guddorf, German journalist and resistance fighter in the third realm
- 1903: Ella Maillart, Swiss Sportlerin and travel authoress
- 1903: Joseph Schröffer, bishopof calibrate-corrode, Kurienkardinal
- 1907: Erich Klabunde, German politician and MdB
- 1907: Ernst Schellenberg, German politician
- 1908: Alexander Elbrächter, German politician
- 1908: Heino gauze, German composer and Texter
- 1909: Franz Hildebrandt,German minister and theologian
- 1909: Grigori Jakowlewitsch Bachtschiwandschi, Soviet test pilot
- 1909: Heinz Erhardt, German Komiker, musician, entertainer, actor and poet
- 1909: Lorenzo Alvary, US-American opera singer (bass)
- 1911: Hans Scholz, German writer, journalistand painters
- 1912: Pierre Boulle, French writer
- 1913: Rolf Italiaander, German-Dutch author
- 1914: Arnold philosopher, US chess large master
- 1914: Hans Pischner, German Cembalist and music scientist
- 1915: Hans's Christian sheet metal, German actor
- 1919: Jesco of Puttkamer, German journalist and diplomat
- 1920: Jewgeni Fjodorowitsch Dragunow, Soviet weapon technical designer
- 1920: Karl Albrecht, German entrepreneur
- 1920: Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish, sister by John F. Kennedy
- 1920: Robert Richards, US AmericanAthlete and minister
- 1922: Bruno Moravetz, German sport reporter
- 1923: Forbes Burnham, Guyanese politician and president of Guyana
- 1924: Sidney Poitier, US-American actor
- 1925: Heinz Kluncker, German trade unionist
- 1925: Robert Altman,US-American director, Autorenfilmer and TV-producer
- 1926: Hans Timmermann, German director, actor and translator
- 1926: Ken Olsen, US-American engineer and founder of DEK
- 1926: Smelling pool of broadcasting corporations Matheson, US-American SF and film script author
- 1927: Carl dam,German politician and MdB
- 1927: Stroke ore de Givenchy, French mode creator
- 1927: Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician
- 1928: To Friedrich weather, cardinal and archbishop of the Diözese Munich-freesing
- 1928: Jean Ann Kennedy Smith, US-American woman from thatKennedy family
- 1929: Amanda Blake, US-American actress
- 1929: Toshiro Mayuzumi, Japanese composer and professor
- 1929: Uriella, disputed mental guide of the medal Fiat lux
- 1931: John wanting pool of broadcasting corporations Milnor, US-American professor for mathematics
- 1934: Briefly Wölfflin, Austrian writer
- 1935: Inches Gilchrist, US-American authoress
- 1935: Gottfried Tröger, German politician and MdB
- 1936: Larry Hovis, US-American actor and singer
- 1937: Nancy Wilson, US-American singer
- 1937: Robert Huber, German chemist (Chemienobelpreis 1988)
- 1938: Inge Lønning, Norwegian theologian and conservative politician
- 1938: Inocêncio Cani, officer of the navy of the PAIGC and is considered as a murderer Amílcar Cabrals
- 1938: Smelling pool of broadcasting corporations Beymer, US-American actor
- 1940: Christoph ash brook, German pianist and conductor
- 1940: Nancy Wilson, US-American musician
- 1940: Rudolf Edlinger, Austrian politician
- 1941: Buffy Sainte Marie, Canadian singer and Songschreiberin
- 1941: Giuseppe Arzilli, head of state of SanMarino
- 1942: Claude Miller, French film director and film script author
- 1942: Mitch McConnell, US-American senator
- 1942: Phil Esposito, ice hockey player (NHL)
- 1943: Diana L. Paxson, US-American authoress
- 1943: Mike Leigh, British theatre andFilm author and director
- 1944: Christian Pfeiffer, German Kriminologie, Minister of Justice Niedersachsens
- 1944: Willem van Hanegem, Netherlands football coach and former football player
- 1945: Gianni Amelio, italienischer Filmregisseur
- 1945: Johannes Biebl, German rock musician and singer
- 1946: Brenda Blethyn, British actress
- 1947: Henry Hübchen, German film and theatre actor
- 1947: Peter Strauss, US-amerikanischer actor
- 1949: Bernhard Suttner, German politician
- 1949: Ivana Trump, Czech Model
- 1949: Stefan Waggershausen, German singer, composer and author
- 1950: Tony Wilson, British music manager, night club operator and TV-journalist
- 1950: Walter Becker, US-American musician (Steely Dan)
- 1951: Gordon Brown, British politician
- 1951: Günter Jankowiak, GermanActor and dramatist
- 1951: Heidemarie WRIGHT, German politician
- 1951: Randy California, US-amerikanischer skirt guitarist
- 1952: Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz, attorney, politician and president of Ecuador
- 1952: Hans Jürgen Irmer, German politician
- 1953: Riccardo Chailly, italienenischer conductor
- 1954: Patty Hearst, grandchild daughter of the US-American Medienmoguls William Randolph Hearst
- 1955: Bärbel Grygier, German politician and MdB
- 1959: Sabine Kaack, German actress
- 1960: Hardy Mertens, Netherlands composer and conductor
- 1961: Imogen Stubbs, British actress
- 1961: Gabriele Igler Wagner, wife of Johann Wagner
- 1963: Alan McInally, Scottish football player
- 1963: Charles Barkley, US-American basketball player
- 1963: Joakim Nyström, Swedish tennis player
- 1965: Dirk Schulz, Draughtsmen
- 1965: Silvius of boiler, German cathedral organist
- 1966: Cindy Crawford, US-American supermodel and actress
- 1966: Dennis Mitchell, US-American athlete and olympia winner
- 1966: Rudolf Nierlich, Austrian ski running runner
- 1967: Briefly Cobain,US-American musician (Nirvana)
- 1967: Lily Taylor, US-American actress
- 1967: Paul Accola, Swiss ski running runner
- 1968: Dirk Dufner, German football functionary
- 1969: Siniša Mihajlović, Serbian football player
- 1970: Julia Franck, German authoress
- 1971: Jari Litmanen, Finnish football player
- 1971: Theresa Hübchen, German actress
- 1972: Laith aluminium-Deen, German musician
- 1975: Brian Littrell, US-American musician (Backstreet Boys)
- 1976: Marek Nikl, Czech football player
- 1977: Bartosz Kizierowski,Polish float
- 1977: Step-hone Marbury, US-American basketball player
- 1978: Julia Jentsch, German actress
- 1978: Lauren Ambrose, US-American actress
- 1980: Anne Poleska, German swimmer
- 1980: Artur Boruc, Polish football player
- 1981: Elizabeth Görgl, Austrian Skirennläuferin
- 1983: Jeremy Foley, US-American Filmschauspieler
- 1985: Yulia Olegovna Volkova, member of the group t.A.T.u
- 1986: Salome Clausen, Swiss singer
- 1988: Rihanna, R&B singer from Barbados
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died
Andreas Hofers execution in the year 1810
- 738: Eucherius of Orléans, bishop von Orléans
- 1054: Jaroslaw I. of Kiew, „the way “
- 1194: Tankred von Lecce, König of Sicilies and Neapel
- 1431: Martin V.,Pope from 1417 to 1431
- 1437: Jakob I., King of Scotland (1406-1437)
- 1513: Johann I., King of Denmark (1481-1513)
- 1575: Maria (Jever), the last Regentin of the rule Jever
- 1595: Ernst of Austria,Ore duke of Austria
- 1600: Markus Tegginger, German clergyman, university teacher and founder
- 1612: Johannes God lives, German Magister, professor and Evangelist theologian
- 1626: John Dowland, English composer of the Renaissance
- 1694: George Franz Kolschitzky, PolishSoldier and interpreter
- 1695: Johann Ambrosius brook, German musician
- 1732: Balthasar Permoser, German sculptor
- 1762: Tobias Mayer, German Kartograf, geo count, mathematician, physicist and astronomer
- 1773: Karl Emanuel III., King of Piemont Sardinien andDuke of Savoyen
- 1790: Joseph II. (HRR), emperors of the holy one of Roman realm from 1765 to 1790
- 1799: George Christian Unger, German architect and building master Friedrichs of the large one
- 1799: Jean Charles Borda, French mathematician andSailor
- 1803: Marie Dumesnil, French actress
- 1810: Andreas Hofer, leader of the German liberty fight in Tirol on go-eat Napoleons in Mantua shot
- 1816: Johann Erich beasts, German popular philosopher
- 1816: Maria I., Queen ofPortugal and queen of Brazil
- 1824: Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel of Tauentzien, Prussian general of the infantry
- 1840: William Gotthelf Lohrmann, German Geodät, Topograph, astronomer and Meteoroligist
- 1841: Friedrich William Adam Sertürner, German pharmacist and discovererthe Morphiums
- 1850: Hermann Biow, German photographer
- 1855: Joseph Hume, British politician
- 1860: Henry Drummond, British joint founder of the catholic Apostoli municipalities
- 1861: Eugène Scribe, French dramatist
- 1871: Paul Kane, German painter
- 1883: Bertrando Spavénta, Italian philosopher
- 1891: Jöns Carlson, Botaniker
- 1892: Hermann Kopp, German chemist and chemistry historian
- 1893: Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, general of the Konföderierten states of America
- 1895: Frederick Douglas,US-American Abolitionist and writer
- 1907: Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobelpreisträger
- 1913: Robert von Lieben, Austrian physicist
- 1916: Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish journalist, politician and Nobel peace prize carrier
- 1919: Habibullah Khan, from 1901 to 1919Emir of Afghanistan
- 1920: Jacinta Marto, blessed one, witness of a Marienerscheinung
- 1920: Robert Edwin Peary, US-American engineer and polar researcher
- 1922: Jordan May, Franziskaner
- 1922: Pure hard man man, German inventor and entrepreneur
- 1925: MarcoEnrico Bossi, Italian organist and composer
- 1928: Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer
- 1929: Carl sunshine, German theologian
- 1934: Fedor of Zobeltitz, German writer and journalist
- 1939: August Leonhard Bernoulli, Swiss physicist
- 1941: Arthur Erich Haas, Austrian physicist
- 1942: Juliusz Bur, national bishop of Poland
- 1945: Hermann Jansen (architect), German architect and town planner
- 1946: André Jolles, Netherlands literature scientist
- 1948: Bertha servant, Austrian authoress andTravel lady journalist
- 1951: Howard Brockway, US-American composer
- 1951: Karl Ruediger, German politician
- 1952: William Knothe, German politician, MdB
- 1955: Eugen narrow brook, German professor of the marketing and management
- 1956: Heinrich bark living, German physicist
- 1958: Isidore Philipp, Hungarian-French pianist and music paedagogue
- 1959: Otto Bartning, German architect and architectural theorist
- 1960: Philipp resistance, German politician
- 1961: Percy Grainger, Australian composer and professor
- 1963: Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor
- 1963: Jakow Andrejewitsch Eschpai, Russian composer and paedagogue
- 1966: Arnold hearing citizen, Netherlands football player
- 1966: Chester W. Nimitz, fleet admiral of the US Navy
- 1966: Paul Zielinski, German football player
- 1969: Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor
- 1970: Friedhelm Dohmann, German politician and MdB
- 1970: Gas clay/tone Modot, French Filmschauspieler
- 1970: João Café Filho, president of Brazil
- 1971: Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované, 15. President of Panama
- 1972: Maria Goeppert Mayer,GermanUS-American Physikerin, Nobelpreisträgerin
- 1973: Brigitte Reimann, authoress of the GDR
- 1975: Briefly batteries, German literature scientist, critic and lector
- 1976: Hans Luckey, baptistischer theologian and minister as well as free-church historian
- 1976: René Cassin, lawyer andNobel peace prize carrier
- 1980: Joseph Bankes Rhine, US-American psychologist
- 1982: Gershom Scholem, Israeli religion historian of German descent
- 1984: Fikrät Ämirov, Azerbaijani composer
- 1985: Isaac Kashdan, US-American large master and author in chess
- 1986: Hans's violonist(SPD), German politician
- 1987: Adrian Cruft, British composer and professor
- 1987: E. P. Yak-generic terms, Belgian draughtsman von Comics
- 1987: Joseph Parecattil, archbishop of Ernakulam and cardinal
- 1989: Erika Köth, German chamber singerand Sopranistin
- 1992: Muhammad Asad, Islamic scholar
- 1993: Ferruccio Lamborghini, autofarmer and father of the automark Lamborghini
- 1994: Franz Zauner, catholic bishop of the Diözese Linz
- 1996: Gheorghe Dumitrescu, Romanian composer
- 1996: Solomon Asch, Polish-American shape psychologist and pioneer of the social psychology
- 1996: Toru Takemitsu, Japanese composer
- 1997: Deng Xiaoping, Chinese politician
- 1999: Sarah Kane, British rain eating urine
- 2003: Maurice Blanchot, French writer
- 2003: Ulrich Roski, German singer-songwriter and Kabarettist
- 2003: Willi Hoss, German politician
- 2005: Dalene Matthee, South African authoress
- 2005: Hunter S. Thompson, US-American writer and reporter
- 2005: Jimmy Young, US-American Boxer
- 2005: Karl Weschke, GermanBritish painter
- 2005: Raymond Mhlaba, South African politician and civil rights activist
- 2005: Sandra DTE, US-American actress
- 2005: Vitalij Grossmann, German kasachischer ice hockey player
- 2006: Paul Casimir Marcinkus, catholic archbishop and director of the Vatikanbankfrom 1971 to 1989
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celebration and anniversaries
- of name days: Amata, Falko, Leo
- catholic anniversary for Amata, Chlodoald, Corona, Eleutherius, Eucherius of Orléans, Falko, bishop von Tongern, Jacinta Marto, Jordan May, Leo von Catania,
- Evangelist anniversary for Friedrich Weissler
- orthodox anniversary for Agatho, Leo of Catania
see also: Historical anniversaries, time scale
