February 20th, 1961

Born on February 20th, 1961

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, 1961

63

Andrei Shleifer

American economist

*February 20th, 1961, Moscow

63

Imogen Stubbs

British actress

*February 20th, 1961, Rothbury

63

Hubert Le Gall

French designer

*February 20th, 1961, Lyon

63

Emanuela von Frankenberg

Swiss actress

*February 20th, 1961, Basel

63

Steffen Bukold

German economist

*February 20th, 1961, Göppingen

63

Steve Lundquist

American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, former world record-holder

*February 20th, 1961, Atlanta

63

Catherine Troendlé

French politician

*February 20th, 1961, Mulhouse

63

Éric Dumont

French yacht racer

*February 20th, 1961, Saint-Nazaire

63

Hennadii Balashov

Ukrainian businessman and politician

*February 20th, 1961, Dnipro

63

Rodney Van Johnson

American actor

*February 20th, 1961, Cincinnati

63

Michael Fancutt

Australian tennis player and tennis coach

*February 20th, 1961, Brisbane

63

Andrew Swim

Canadian bobsledder

*February 20th, 1961, Saint John

63

Bob Babich

American football coach

*February 20th, 1961, Aliquippa

63

Ion Geolgău

Romanian footballer

*February 20th, 1961, Pielești

63

Nicolas Mérindol

French businessman

*February 20th, 1961, Cambrai

63

Vyktor Berežnoj

Ukrainian basketball player and basketball coach

*February 20th, 1961, Kyiv

63

Peter Sandrini

Translation theorist and terminologist

*February 20th, 1961, Bolzano

63

Gill Byrd

American football player

*February 20th, 1961, San Francisco

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Who's birthday is on February 20th?

59

Thomas Kemmerich

German politician

*February 20th, 1965, Aachen

57

Chung So-young

South Korean badminton player

*February 20th, 1967, Gimje

30

Mathias Christiansen

Badminton player

*February 20th, 1994, Bornholm

58

Urs Fischer

Swiss association football player and manager (born 1966)

*February 20th, 1966, Triengen

62

Stephan van den Berg

Olympic sailor form The Netherlands

*February 20th, 1962, Hoorn

55

Bambang Suprianto

Badminton player

*February 20th, 1969, Surakarta City

65

Sabine Kaack

German actress (1959-)

*February 20th, 1959, Nortorf

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

27

Kurt Cobain

American rock musician (1967–1994)

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

70

Patty Hearst

American kidnapping victim

*February 20th, 1954, San Francisco

73

Gordon Brown

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010

*February 20th, 1951, Giffnock

61

Charles Barkley

American basketball player

*February 20th, 1963, Leeds

72

Hans-Jürgen Irmer

German politician

*February 20th, 1952, Limburg an der Lahn

42

Felo Feoto

Badminton and football player

*February 20th, 1982, Nukufetau

34

Keigo Sonoda

Badminton player

*February 20th, 1990, Yatsushiro

26

Zhou Haodong

Chinese badminton player

*February 20th, 1998, Ningbo

78

Brenda Blethyn

British actress

*February 20th, 1946, Ramsgate

58

Cindy Crawford

American model, actress, and television personality

*February 20th, 1966, DeKalb

66

James Wilby

British actor

*February 20th, 1958, Yangon

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Born in 1961

62

Barack Obama

President of the United States from 2009 to 2017

*August 4th, 1961, Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children

63

Erna Solberg

Norwegian politician and the 35th Prime Minister of Norway

*February 24th, 1961, Bergen

62

Joe Lando

American actor

*December 9th, 1961, Prairie View

63

Lothar Matthäus

German footballer, manager and pundit

*March 21st, 1961, Erlangen

63

Steven Weber

American actor

*March 4th, 1961, Briarwood

62

Kristin Krohn Devold

Norwegian politician

*August 12th, 1961, Ålesund Municipality

63

Knut Nærum

Norwegian comedian and author

*March 3rd, 1961, Arendal

62

Jan-Eric Antonsson

Badminton player

*September 9th, 1961, Karlskrona

62

Michael Meister

German politician

*June 9th, 1961, Lorsch

63

Hans-Georg von der Marwitz

German politician

*April 8th, 1961, Heidelberg

62

Olaug Bollestad

Norwegian politician

*November 4th, 1961, Strand Municipality

62

Julia Gillard

Prime Minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013

*September 29th, 1961, Barry

63

Eddie Murphy

American stand-up comedian and actor

*April 3rd, 1961, Brooklyn

36

Diana, Princess of Wales

Member of the British royal family and Princess of Wales (1961–1997)

*July 1st, 1961, Sandringham †August 31st, 1997, Paris

62

Dirk Heidenblut

German politician

*April 21st, 1961, Essen

62

Arundhati Roy

Indian novelist, essayist, and activist

*November 24th, 1961, Shillong

62

George Clooney

American actor and filmmaker (born 1961)

*May 6th, 1961, Lexington

62

Nadia Comăneci

Romanian gymnast and five-time Olympic gold medalist

*November 12th, 1961, Onești

57

Stephen Hillenburg

American marine science educator and artist (1961-2018)

*August 21st, 1961, Fort Sill †November 26th, 2018, San Marino

62

Florent Pagny

French recording artist; singer

*November 6th, 1961, Chalon-sur-Saône

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1961 is a normal year and no leap year.

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