February 20th, 2009

Born on February 20th, 2009

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What happened on February 20th, 2009?

February 20th, 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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_suicide_air_raid_on_Colombo

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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eelam

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, 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.

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

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

36

Rihanna

Barbadian singer and actress (born 1988)

*February 20th, 1988, Saint Michael

26

Zhou Haodong

Chinese badminton player

*February 20th, 1998, Ningbo

57

Chung So-young

South Korean badminton player

*February 20th, 1967, Gimje

59

Thomas Kemmerich

German politician

*February 20th, 1965, Aachen

34

Keigo Sonoda

Badminton player

*February 20th, 1990, Yatsushiro

21

Joao Grimaldo

Peruvian association football player

*February 20th, 2003, Lima

27

Sammy Skytte

Danish association football player

*February 20th, 1997, Denmark

58

Urs Fischer

Swiss association football player and manager (born 1966)

*February 20th, 1966, Triengen

42

Felo Feoto

Badminton and football player

*February 20th, 1982, Nukufetau

55

Bambang Suprianto

Badminton player

*February 20th, 1969, Surakarta City

35

Jasna Fritzi Bauer

Swiss actress

*February 20th, 1989, Wiesbaden

27

Kurt Cobain

American rock musician (1967–1994)

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

30

Brigid Kosgei

Kenyan long-distance runner

*February 20th, 1994, Kapsowar

73

Gordon Brown

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010

*February 20th, 1951, Giffnock

45

Armelle Deutsch

French actress

*February 20th, 1979, Martigues

70

Patty Hearst

American kidnapping victim

*February 20th, 1954, San Francisco

26

Pernille Sørensen

Danish figure skater

*February 20th, 1998, Esbjerg

89

Jim Poole

Badminton player

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

Same year
Born in 2009

15

Julia Butters

American actress

*April 15th, 2009, Los Angeles

14

Kim Kang-hoon

South Korean actor

*June 7th, 2009, Cheongju

14

Samaya Clark Gabriel

American basketball player

*October 1st, 2009, Brooklyn

14

Heo Yool

South Korean actress

*August 26th, 2009, South Korea

14

Leanne Bautista

Filipino child actress

*October 14th, 2009, Philippines

14

Kler Çaku

Albanian chess player

*November 30th, 2009, Shkodër

14

Fairooj Labiba

Bangladeshi singer

*June 13th, 2009, Khulna

14

Alihan Türkdemir

Turkish actor

*June 29th, 2009, Istanbul

14

Count Henrik of Monpezat

Danish former prince; son of Prince Joachim and Princess Marie of Denmark

*May 4th, 2009, Rigshospitalet

15

Suleman octuplets

Six male and two female children conceived via in vitro fertilization

*January 26th, 2009, Bellflower

15

Moon Woo-jin

South Korean television and film actor

*February 19th, 2009, Incheon

15

Hend Zaza

Syrian table tennis player

*January 1st, 2009, Hama

15

Isabella Damla Güvenilir

American-Turkish actress

*January 18th, 2009, New York City

15

Valentina Tronel

French singer

*April 6th, 2009, Rennes

14

Lee Go-eun

South Korean actress

*November 6th, 2009, Incheon

12

Tomiii 11

Chilean YouTuber

*June 13th, 2009, Quinta de Tilcoco †August 30th, 2021, Quinta de Tilcoco

14

Temilayo Abodunrin

Nigerian saxophonist and song writer

*November 19th, 2009, Lagos

15

Lina Renna

Canadian actress

*April 25th, 2009, Canada

15

Seraphina Affleck

American actress and producer

*January 6th, 2009, Los Angeles

15

Ava Grace Cooper

Canadian actress

*March 2nd, 2009, Canada

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No: With 365 days 2009 is a normal year and no leap year.

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