What happend on 20th February

19.02
21.02
1942

Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.

1931

California gets the go-ahead by the U.S. Congress to build the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

1921

The film The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres.

1913

King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.

1901

The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.

1873

The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California.

1872

In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.

1864

Battle of Olustee

1835

Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake

1816

Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville debuts at Teatro Argentina, with a fiasco.