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Notable anniversaries in history for today: February 20
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Bobby Unser; auto racer (1968, 1975, 1981 Indianapolis 500).
- 80th: 1944 - Batman and Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Lew Soloff in Brooklyn, New York, USA; rocker (Blood Sweat and Tears).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Roger Knapman; British Member of Parliament.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Willem van Hanegem; Dutch soccer champion/coach (Feyenoord).
- 80th: 1944 - US takes Eniwetok Island.
- 70th: 1954 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Anthony Stewart Head; actor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Jon Brant; rock bassist (Cheap Trick - "The Dream Police").
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Patty Hearst Shaw in San Francisco, California, USA; famous kidnap hostage (Tanya).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Vasili Vasilyevich Tsibliyev; Russian colonel/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-17, TM-25).
- 70th: 1954 - General Zahedi wins election in Persia.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Christian Ruuttu in Lappeenranta, Finland; hockey forward (Team Finland).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of French Stewart in New Mexico, USA; actor (Harry Solomon - Third Rock From the Sun).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Jeffrey Allan Maggert in Columbia, Missouri, USA; PGA golfer (1993 Walt Disney).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Terry Ilous; rock vocalist (XYZ, Cannibal Jacket).
- 60th: 1964 - R T Stanyforth, English cricket wicketkeeper (South Africa 1927-28), dies.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Katerina Kroupova in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia; tennis star (1994 Futures-Sofia-Bulgaria).
- 50th: 1974 - Gordie Howe comes out of retirement for US$1 million from Houston Aeros, WHA.
- 30th: 1994 - Three Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage.
- 30th: 1994 - Derek Jarman, English director (Last of England), dies at age 52.
- 30th: 1994 - Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55).
- 30th: 1994 - Manuel F "Garincha" dos Santos, soccer player (Brazil), dies at age 49.
- 30th: 1994 - Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals.
- 20th: 2004 - Conservatives win a majority in the Iranian parliament election.
- 15th: 2009 - Spot gold hits a peak of US$1005.40, its highest since March 18, 2008.
- 15th: 2009 - Swedish carmaker Saab (a unit of American carmaker General Motors) files for protection from creditors while it tries to find a new partner and raise funds.
- 15th: 2009 - Israeli President Shimon Peres asks Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu to form Israel's next government.
- 15th: 2009 - Death of William J. Jorden, former New York Times correspondent, American ambassador to Panama (1974-78), author (Panama Odyssey), at age 85, or lung cancer, in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
- 10th: 2014 - Birth of Princess Leonore, Duchess of Gotland.
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