February 20th, 1966

Born on February 20th, 1966

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, 1966

58

Urs Fischer

Swiss association football player and manager (born 1966)

*February 20th, 1966, Triengen

58

Cindy Crawford

American model

*February 20th, 1966, DeKalb

58

Constantin Seibt

Swiss journalist

*February 20th, 1966, Frankfurt

58

Priyanandanan

Indian film director

*February 20th, 1966, Thrissur

58

Louis Ferreira

Portuguese-Canadian actor

*February 20th, 1966, Terceira Island

58

Christoph Steinbeck

German chemist

*February 20th, 1966, Neuwied

58

Paul van Waarden

Dutch chef

*February 20th, 1966, Haarlem

58

Yassine Brahim

Tunisian politician

*February 20th, 1966, Mahdia

58

Derek Lilliquist

American baseball player

*February 20th, 1966, Winter Park

55

George Ciamba

Romanian diplomat (1966-2021)

*February 20th, 1966, Bucharest †July 11th, 2021

58

Dennis Mitchell

American track and field athlete, Olympic gold medalist

*February 20th, 1966, Havelock

25

Rudolf Nierlich

Austrian alpine skier (1966-1991)

*February 20th, 1966, St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut †May 18th, 1991, St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut

58

DJ Taucher

German DJ

*February 20th, 1966, Bischofsheim

58

Esther Haase

German photographer

*February 20th, 1966, Bremen

58

Gergely Fonyó

Film Director

*February 20th, 1966, Budapest

58

Christina Meier-Höck

German alpine skier

*February 20th, 1966, Rottach-Egern

58

Lawrence Ross

African American author, Black fraternalism, NPHC, Divine Nine

*February 20th, 1966, Los Angeles

58

Kimiko Gelman

American actress

*February 20th, 1966, Brooklyn

58

Irene Martínez Mecha

Spanish gymnast

*February 20th, 1966, Torrelodones

58

Daryl Green

American soccer player-coach

*February 20th, 1966, Seattle

58

Andrés Durán

Colombian historian

*February 20th, 1966, Bogotá

58

Sergei Aslanyan

Journalist

*February 20th, 1966, Moscow

58

Perica Bukić

Croatian water polo player

*February 20th, 1966, Šibenik

58

Khamu Ram Bishnoi

Indian environmentalist

*February 20th, 1966, Osian

58

Igor Zuborenko

Soviet rower

*February 20th, 1966, Mogilev

58

Erhard Mahlknecht

Luger

*February 20th, 1966, Völs am Schlern

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

57

Chung So-young

South Korean badminton player

*February 20th, 1967, Gimje

27

Kurt Cobain

American rock musician (1967–1994)

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

55

Bambang Suprianto

Badminton player

*February 20th, 1969, Surakarta

30

Mathias Christiansen

Badminton player

*February 20th, 1994, Bornholm

72

Hans-Jürgen Irmer

German politician

*February 20th, 1952, Limburg an der Lahn

57

Lili Taylor

American actress

*February 20th, 1967, Glencoe

21

Olivia Rodrigo

American singer and actress (born 2003)

*February 20th, 2003, Murrieta

36

Rihanna

Barbadian singer and actress (born 1988)

*February 20th, 1988, Saint Michael

42

Felo Feoto

Badminton and football player

*February 20th, 1982, Nukufetau

34

Keigo Sonoda

Badminton player

*February 20th, 1990, Yatsushiro

73

Gordon Brown

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010

*February 20th, 1951, Giffnock

62

Stephan van den Berg

Olympic sailor form The Netherlands

*February 20th, 1962, Hoorn

52

Corinna Harney

American actress and model

*February 20th, 1972, Bremerhaven

61

Charles Barkley

American basketball player

*February 20th, 1963, Leeds

26

Zhou Haodong

Chinese badminton player

*February 20th, 1998, Ningbo

65

Sabine Kaack

German actress

*February 20th, 1959, Nortorf

70

Patty Hearst

American kidnapping victim

*February 20th, 1954, San Francisco

55

Mark Surman

Canadian internet activist

*February 20th, 1969, Toronto

63

Andrei Shleifer

American economist

*February 20th, 1961, Moscow

27

Sammy Skytte

Danish association football player

*February 20th, 1997, Denmark

Same year
Born in 1966

57

Diedrich Bader

American actor

*December 24th, 1966, Alexandria

57

Marcus Marin

German football player and manager

*December 13th, 1966, Hamburg

58

Jimmy Wales

Co-founder of Wikipedia (born 1966)

*August 7th, 1966, Huntsville

56

Sinéad O'Connor

Irish singer-songwriter and activist (1966–2023)

*December 8th, 1966, Glenageary †July 26th, 2023, London

58

Lucie Bílá

Czech singer and actress

*April 7th, 1966, Otvovice

57

David Cameron

British politician (born 1966)

*October 9th, 1966, Marylebone

57

Kiefer Sutherland

Canadian actor

*December 21st, 1966, St. Mary's Hospital

58

Hwang Hye-young

South Korean badminton player

*July 16th, 1966, Jeungpyeong County

58

Olaf Thon

German association football player and manager

*May 1st, 1966, Gelsenkirchen

58

Lutz Heilmann

German politician

*September 7th, 1966, Zittau

58

Irina Serova

Badminton player

*May 14th, 1966, Soviet Union

58

Thomas Häßler

German footballer

*May 30th, 1966, West Berlin

58

Markus Schupp

German association football player and manager

*January 7th, 1966, Idar-Oberstein

58

Thomas Doll

German association football player and manager

*April 9th, 1966, Malchin

58

Franco Foda

German association football player and manager

*April 23rd, 1966, Mainz

58

Ludwig Kögl

German footballer

*March 7th, 1966, Penzberg

58

Olaf Marschall

German association football player and manager (1966–)

*March 19th, 1966, Torgau

58

Catrin Striebeck

German actress

*April 18th, 1966, Vienna

58

Kristian Eidnes Andersen

Danish composer

*July 2nd, 1966, Faxe

58

Stefan Mappus

German politician, former PM of Baden-Württemberg

*April 4th, 1966, Pforzheim

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on February 20th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on February 20th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Born on February 20th, 1966
Future birthdays

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1966 is a normal year and no leap year.

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