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==Events== *1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clashed in the Battle of Parabiago. *1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark. *1547 – Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey. *1685 – René-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas. *1792 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington. *1798 – Louis-Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power. *1810 – Andreas Hofer, Tirolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon's forces, is executed. *1813 – Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán during the Battle of Salta. *1816 – Rossini's opera ''The Barber of Seville'' premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome. *1835 – Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake. *1846 – Polish insurgents lead an uprising in Kraków to incite a fight for national independence. *1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Olustee: The largest battle fought in Florida during the war. *1865 – End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance. *1872 – In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens. *1873 – The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco. *1877 – Tchaikovsky's ballet ''Swan Lake'' receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. *1901 – The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time. *1909 – Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal ''Le Figaro''. *1913 – King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra. *1921 – The Young Communist League of Czechoslovakia is founded. *1931 – The Congress of the United States approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California. *1933 – The Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution that will end Prohibition in the United States. * 1933 – Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign. *1935 – Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica. *1942 – Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace. *1943 – American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies. * 1943 – The Parícutin volcano begins to form in Parícutin, Mexico. * 1943 – ''The Saturday Evening Post'' publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's ''Four Freedoms'' in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms. *1944 – World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers. * 1944 – World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island. *1952 – Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League. *1956 – The United States Merchant Marine Academy becomes a permanent Service Academy. *1959 – The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate. *1962 – Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes. *1965 – Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts. *1971 – The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert. *1978 – The last Order of Victory is bestowed upon Leonid Brezhnev. *1986 – The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years. *1987 – Unabomber: In Salt Lake City, a bomb explodes in a computer store. *1988 – The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War. *1989 – An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England. *1991 – A gigantic statue of Albania's long-time leader, Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the Albanian capital Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters. *1998 – American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. *2003 – During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the Station nightclub ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others. *2005 – Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout. *2006 – In South Korea the United Liberal Democrats, the three top political parties was merged into Grand National Party. *2009 – Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack. *2010 – In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago. *2013 – The smallest extrasolar planet, Kepler-37b is discovered. *2014 – Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters died in Ukraine's capital Kiev, many reportedly killed by snipers. *2015 – Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「February 20」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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