February 20th, 1998

Born on February 20th, 1998

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on February 20th, 1998?

February 20th, 1998

American figure skater Tara Lipinski, at the age of 15, becomes the youngest Olympic figure skating gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

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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.

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What else 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, 2010

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

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

Born on February 20th, 1998

26

Zhou Haodong

Chinese badminton player

*February 20th, 1998, Ningbo

26

Pernille Sørensen

Danish figure skater

*February 20th, 1998, Esbjerg

26

Jurre Vreman

Dutch association football player

*February 20th, 1998, Gendringen

26

Keaton Winn

American baseball player

*February 20th, 1998, Ollie

26

Andreas Hoven

Association football player

*February 20th, 1998, Norway

26

Matt Hunter Correa

American teen pop singer and voice actor

*February 20th, 1998, Manhattan

26

Shun Nishime

Japanese actor & model

*February 20th, 1998, Uruma

26

Mariano Peralta Bauer

Argentine footballer

*February 20th, 1998, Adrogué

26

Emam Ashour

Egyptian association football player

*February 20th, 1998, El Senbellawein

26

Dauda Mohammed

Association football player

*February 20th, 1998, Larabanga

26

Ben Bredeson

American football player (born 1998)

*February 20th, 1998, Hartland

26

Matthias Verreth

Belgian association football player

*February 20th, 1998, Belgium

26

Nicole Fujita

Japanese fashion model and talent

*February 20th, 1998, Milford

26

Spooky Black

American singer

*February 20th, 1998, Baltimore

26

Keba Coly

Senegalese footballer

*February 20th, 1998, Dakar

26

Luiz Gustavo Novaes Palhares

Brazilian association football player

*February 20th, 1998, São Paulo

26

Kevin Cardozo

Association football player

*February 20th, 1998, Longchamps

26

Riazat Ali Shah

Ugandan cricketer

*February 20th, 1998, Gilgit

26

Nelmerson Xavier Angela

Baseball player (1998-)

*February 20th, 1998, Willemstad

26

Rory Currie

Scottish footballer (born 1998)

*February 20th, 1998, Lanark

26

Denis Adamov

Russian association football player (b. 1998)

*February 20th, 1998, Ulyanovsk

26

Clarence Munyai

South African sprinter

*February 20th, 1998, Johannesburg

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

30

Mathias Christiansen

Badminton player

*February 20th, 1994, Bornholm

21

Olivia Rodrigo

American singer and actress (born 2003)

*February 20th, 2003, Murrieta

27

Sammy Skytte

Danish association football player

*February 20th, 1997, Denmark

36

Rihanna

Barbadian singer and actress (born 1988)

*February 20th, 1988, Saint Michael

34

Keigo Sonoda

Badminton player

*February 20th, 1990, Yatsushiro

57

Chung So-young

South Korean badminton player

*February 20th, 1967, Gimje

59

Thomas Kemmerich

German politician

*February 20th, 1965, Aachen

21

Joao Grimaldo

Peruvian association football player

*February 20th, 2003, Lima

42

Felo Feoto

Badminton and football player

*February 20th, 1982, Nukufetau

30

Brigid Kosgei

Kenyan long-distance runner

*February 20th, 1994, Kapsowar

58

Urs Fischer

Swiss association football player and manager (born 1966)

*February 20th, 1966, Triengen

55

Bambang Suprianto

Badminton player

*February 20th, 1969, Surakarta City

35

Jasna Fritzi Bauer

Swiss actress

*February 20th, 1989, Wiesbaden

45

Armelle Deutsch

French actress

*February 20th, 1979, Martigues

27

Kurt Cobain

American rock musician (1967–1994)

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

32

Alexis Miart

French figure skater

*February 20th, 1992, Paris

32

Lawson Craddock

American road cyclist

*February 20th, 1992, Houston

73

Gordon Brown

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010

*February 20th, 1951, Giffnock

32

Katharina Gierok

German figure skater

*February 20th, 1992, Krefeld

25

Jarrett Culver

American basketball player

*February 20th, 1999, Lubbock

Same year
Born in 1998

25

Conan Gray

American singer-songwriter

*December 5th, 1998, Lemon Grove

26

Jack Harlow

American rapper from Kentucky (born 1998)

*March 13th, 1998, Louisville

25

Roddy Ricch

American rapper and singer-songwriter

*October 22nd, 1998, Compton

25

Latto

American rapper and singer

*December 22nd, 1998, Columbus

25

Bizarrap

Argentine record producer

*August 29th, 1998, Ramos Mejía

25

Einar Lurås Oftebro

Norwegian nordic combined skier

*August 6th, 1998, Norway

25

Kati-Kreet Marran

Estonian badminton player

*July 13th, 1998, Tartu

26

Yulfira Barkah

Badminton player

*February 4th, 1998, Medan

26

Pornpawee Chochuwong

Badminton player

*January 22nd, 1998, Rayong

25

Nina Chuba

German singer and television actor

*October 14th, 1998, Wedel

26

Zé Felipe

Brazilian sertanejo singer

*April 21st, 1998, Goiânia

25

Luísa Sonza

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*July 18th, 1998, Tuparendi

25

Kevinho

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*September 15th, 1998, Campinas

26

Paulo Londra

Argentinian rapper and singer

*April 12th, 1998, Córdoba

26

Wos

Argentine rapper, freestyler and actor

*January 23rd, 1998, Buenos Aires

25

Clara Azurmendi

Badminton player

*May 4th, 1998, San Sebastián

25

Chloe Bailey

American singer and actress

*July 1st, 1998, Atlanta

26

Rodion Alimov

Russian badminton player

*April 21st, 1998, Ufa

25

Chloe Bailey

American singer and actress

*July 1st, 1998, Atlanta

24

Hugo Helmig

Danish singer-songwriter

*July 24th, 1998, Aarhus †November 23rd, 2022

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1998 is a normal year and no leap year.

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