20TH
FEBRUARY
FEAST DAY OF
"ST ELEUTHERIUS OF TOURNAI; ST
EUCHERIUS OF ORLEANS; ST TYRANNO; ST ZENOBIUS; & ST WULFRIC." |
| 20TH |
1725 |
TEN SLEEPING INDIANS WERE SCALPED BY WHITES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
FOR SCALP BOUNTY. |
| 20TH |
1811 |
AUSTRIA DECLARES ITSELF BANKRUPT. |
| 20TH |
1872 |
HYDRAULIC ELECTRIC ELEVATOR IS PATENTED BY CYRUS BALDWIN. |
| 20TH |
1872 |
TOOTHPICK MANUFACTURING MACHINE IS
PATENTED IN THE U.S. |
| 20TH |
1876 |
AN UNDERWATER CABLE CONNECTS N.S.W. WITH NEW ZEALAND. |
| 20TH |
1903 |
THE AUSTRALIAN FLAG IS OFFICIALLY
PROCLAIMED IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA GAZETTE. |
| 20TH |
1935 |
THE CLOCK ON ADELAIDE TOWN HALL BEGAN OPERATING. |
| 20TH |
1944 |
"BATMAN & ROBIN" COMIC
STRIP PREMIERS IN NEWSPAPERS. |
| 20TH |
1954 |
IT’S WORST EVER CYCLONE HITS NSW, CAUSING FLOODING &
THE DEATHS OF 26 PEOPLE. IN QUEENSLAND AT LEAST 10 LIVES WERE ALSO LOST. |
| 20TH |
1962 |
U.S. SPACECRAFT "FRIENDSHIP
7" TAKES "JOHN GLENN" INTO 3 ORBITS AROUND EARTH. |
| 20TH |
1971 |
"JOHN TONKIN" LEADS THE LABOUR PARTY TO VICTORY IN
THE WESTERN AUSTRALIA, STATE ELECTIONS. |
| 20TH |
1980 |
20 HOMES WERE LOST AS BUSHFIRES RAVAGED
THE ADELAIDE HILLS NEAR ALDGATE. |
| 20TH |
1980 |
ACTRESS, "SUSAN DEY" WEDS PRODUCER, "BERNARD
SOFRONSKI." |
| 20TH |
1981 |
TELEVISION IS ALLOWED INTO THE
COURTROOM FOR THE FIRST TIME IN AUSTRALIA, WHEN ALICE SPRINGS CORONER "DENNIS
BARRITT" HANDS DOWN HIS FINDINGS; "AZARIA CHAMBERLAIN" HAD BEEN TAKEN BY A
DINGO. |
| 20TH |
1985 |
THE SALE OF CONTRACEPTIVES BECAME LEGAL IN THE IRISH
REPUBLIC. |
| 20TH |
1986 |
"MIKE TYSON" SEXUALLY
HARASSES A WOMAN IN ALBANY. |
| 20TH |
1986 |
RUSSIA LAUNCHES THE MIR SPACE STATION. |
| 20TH |
1988 |
"RUPERT MURDOCH" SELLS THE
"NEW YORK POST" TO "PETER KALIKOW" FOR $37.6 MILLION. |
| 20TH |
1989 |
AN IRA BOMB DESTROYS THE ARMY BARRACKS AT TERN HILL,
SHROPSHIRE. |
| 20TH |
1997 |
A SHARK AQUARIUM AT SYDNEY AQUARIUM,
DARLING HARBOUR BURSTS OPEN, INJURING SIX. |
| 20TH |
2001 |
THE FIRST FLEECE SHORN FROM ‘MATHILDA’
AUSTRALIA’S FIRST CLONED SHEEP SOLD AT A WOOL SALE AT WAYVILLE SHOWGROUNDS, ADELAIDE
TO WOOL PROCESSOR, "G.H. MITCHELL" FOR $3,500 DOLLARD.
THE SAME AMOUNT FROM A NORMAL SHEEP WOULD BE VALUED AT $18 |
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