February 20th, 1954

Born on February 20th, 1954

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on February 20th?

February 20th, 1988

The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast voted to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.

February 20th, 1970

The Wat Phra Dhammakaya in Pathum Thani province, one of the largest Buddhist temples in Thailand, was founded.

February 20th, 1965

The NASA spacecraft Ranger 8 spacecraft transmitted 7,137 photographs of the Moon in the final 23 minutes of its mission before crashing as planned in Mare Tranquillitatis.

February 20th, 1959

Canadian prime minister John Diefenbaker cancelled the Avro CF-105 Arrow (pictured) interceptor-aircraft program amid much political debate.

February 20th, 1943

A fissure opened in a cornfield in the Mexican state of Michoacán and continued to erupt for nine years, forming the cinder cone Parícutin .

February 20th, 1905

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Jacobson v. Massachusetts that states had the authority to order compulsory vaccination.

February 20th, 1872

The Metropolitan Museum of Art , today the largest art museum in the United States with a collection of more than two million works, opened in New York.

February 20th, 1864

American Civil War: The Union Army suffered a one-in-three casualty rate at the Battle of Olustee near Lake City, Florida.

February 20th, 1846

Polish insurgents in the Free City of Kraków led an uprising attempting to incite a fight for national independence that was put down by the Austrian Empire nine days later.

February 20th, 1835

An earthquake registering approximately 8.5 Mw devastated Concepción, Chile, and triggered a tsunami that destroyed neighbouring Talcahuano.

February 20th, 1816

Italian composer Gioachino Rossini's opera buffa The Barber of Seville premiered at the Teatro Argentina in Rome to jeers from the audience.

February 20th, 1685

The French colonization of Texas began with the landing of colonists led by Robert de La Salle near Matagorda Bay.

February 20th, 1998

At the age of 15, American figure skater Tara Lipinski became the youngest gold-medal winner in the history of the Winter Olympic Games at the time.

February 20th, 2010

Severe flooding and mudslides on the island of Madeira, Portugal, killed 51 people.

February 20th, 2009

The Tamil Tigers attempted to crash two aircraft laden with C-4 in suicide attacks on Colombo, Sri Lanka, but the planes were shot down before they reached their targets.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on February 20th

Born on February 20th, 1954

70

Patty Hearst

American kidnapping victim

*February 20th, 1954, San Francisco

70

Anthony Head

English actor

*February 20th, 1954, Camden Town

70

Abida Parveen

Pakistani Sufi Muslim singer, composer and musician

*February 20th, 1954, Larkana

70

Steve Oliff

American comic artist

*February 20th, 1954, United States of America

70

Mirosław Jarzembowski

Polish rower

*February 20th, 1954, Bydgoszcz

70

Claire Lynch

Bluegrass singer

*February 20th, 1954, Kingston

70

Tamara Adrián

Venezuelan politician and lawyer

*February 20th, 1954, Caracas

70

Vasily Tsibliyev

Russian cosmonaut

*February 20th, 1954, Orikhivka

70

Li Xuejian

Chinese actor

*February 20th, 1954, Heze

70

Jorge Torres López

Governor of Coahuila

*February 20th, 1954, Saltillo

70

Lawrence Dowler

American swimmer, Olympic athlete, Pan American Games silver medalist

*February 20th, 1954, Camp Pendleton, California: helicopter crash kills two US marines

70

Jolanta Antas

Polish professor of linguistics

*February 20th, 1954, Szczecin

70

Axel Radlach Pries

German physician and university professor

*February 20th, 1954, Cologne

70

Glynis Coles

British tennis player

*February 20th, 1954, London

70

Dennis Drainville

Canadian politician

*February 20th, 1954, Joliette

70

Steve Roller

American athlete

*February 20th, 1954, Rochester

70

Grigore Leșe

Romanian musician

*February 20th, 1954, Stoiceni

70

Mike Nemes

American politician

*February 20th, 1954, Kentucky

70

Ernst Lüthi

Swiss ice hockey player

*February 20th, 1954, Switzerland

68

Tom Whitlock

American songwriter (1954–2023)

*February 20th, 1954, Springfield †February 17th, 2023, Nashville

Same Day
Who's birthday is on February 20th?

30

Mathias Christiansen

Badminton player

*February 20th, 1994, Bornholm

59

Thomas Kemmerich

German politician

*February 20th, 1965, Aachen

57

Chung So-young

South Korean badminton player

*February 20th, 1967, Gimje

73

Gordon Brown

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010

*February 20th, 1951, Giffnock

72

Hans-Jürgen Irmer

German politician

*February 20th, 1952, Limburg an der Lahn

58

Urs Fischer

Swiss association football player and manager (born 1966)

*February 20th, 1966, Triengen

36

Rihanna

Barbadian singer and actress (born 1988)

*February 20th, 1988, Saint Michael

21

Olivia Rodrigo

American singer and actress (born 2003)

*February 20th, 2003, Murrieta

55

Bambang Suprianto

Badminton player

*February 20th, 1969, Surakarta City

78

Brenda Blethyn

British actress

*February 20th, 1946, Ramsgate

65

Sabine Kaack

German actress (1959-)

*February 20th, 1959, Nortorf

27

Kurt Cobain

American rock musician (1967–1994)

*February 20th, 1967, Aberdeen †April 5th, 1994, Seattle

81

Mike Leigh

English writer and director (born 1943)

*February 20th, 1943, Brocket Hall

79

Antonio Inoki

Japanese professional wrestler, businessman, and politician (1943-2022)

*February 20th, 1943, Yokohama †October 1st, 2022, Minato

71

Riccardo Chailly

Italian conductor (born 1953)

*February 20th, 1953, Milan

71

J. Geils

American musician

*February 20th, 1946, New York City †April 11th, 2017, Groton

42

Felo Feoto

Badminton and football player

*February 20th, 1982, Nukufetau

34

Keigo Sonoda

Badminton player

*February 20th, 1990, Yatsushiro

89

Jim Poole

Badminton player

*February 20th, 1932, Nashville †November 7th, 2021, Blacksburg

26

Zhou Haodong

Chinese badminton player

*February 20th, 1998, Ningbo

Same year
Born in 1954

69

François Hollande

President of France from 2012 to 2017

*August 12th, 1954, Rouen

69

Angela Merkel

Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021

*July 17th, 1954, Eimsbüttel

69

Lim Swee Say

Former Singaporean politician

*July 13th, 1954, Singapore

70

Rudolf Simek

Austrian philologist and Germanist

*February 21st, 1954, Eisenstadt

70

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

President of the Republic of Turkey since 2014

*February 26th, 1954, Kasımpaşa

69

Lorraine Bracco

American actress

*October 2nd, 1954, Brooklyn

67

Shinzō Abe

Prime Minister of Japan from 2006–2007 and 2012–2020 (1954-2022)

*September 21st, 1954, Shinjuku †July 8th, 2022, Nara Medical University Hospital

70

Jackie Chan

Hong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1954)

*April 7th, 1954, Victoria Peak

58

Hugo Chávez

President of Venezuela, 1999–2002 and 2002–2013

*July 28th, 1954, Sabaneta †March 5th, 2013, Hospital Militar de Caracas

69

Uli Stielike

German association football player and manager

*November 15th, 1954, Ketsch

69

Karl-Heinz Körbel

German association football player and manager

*December 1st, 1954, Dossenheim

69

Sven-Erik Bucht

Swedish politician

*December 28th, 1954, Karungi

70

Eckhardt Rehberg

German politician

*April 3rd, 1954, Ribnitz-Damgarten

69

Emir Kusturica

Bosnian film director, actor and musician

*November 24th, 1954, Sarajevo

69

Caroline Cossey

English model and actress

*August 31st, 1954, Brooke

69

Kathy Kinney

American actress

*November 3rd, 1954, Stevens Point

69

Petra Uhlig

East German handball player

*July 22nd, 1954, Penig

69

Alexander Lukashenko

President of Belarus since 1994

*August 30th, 1954, Kopyś

70

Isabelle McEwen

Canadian film director

*January 6th, 1954, Montreal

69

Renate Franz

German journalist and sport historian

*November 18th, 1954, Solingen

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1954 is a normal year and no leap year.

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