| 1513 |
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Pope Julius II dies. He will lay in rest in a huge tomb sculptured by Michelangelo. |
| 1725 |
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New Hampshire militiamen partake in the first recorded scalping of Indians by whites in North America. |
| 1792 |
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The U.S. Postal Service is created. |
| 1809 |
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The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the power of the federal government is greater than any individual state in the Union. |
| 1831 |
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Polish revolutionaries defeat the Russians in the Battle of Growchow. |
| 1864 |
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Confederate troops defeat a Union army sent to bring Florida into the union at the Battle of Olustee, Fla. |
| 1900 |
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J.F. Pickering patents his airship. |
| 1906 |
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Russian troops seize large portions of Mongolia. |
| 1915 |
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President Woodrow Wilson opens the Panama-Pacific Expo in San Francisco to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal. |
| 1918 |
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The Soviet Red Army seizes Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine. |
| 1938 |
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Hitler demands self-determination for Germans in Austria and Czechoslovakia. |
| 1941 |
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The United States sends war planes to the Pacific. |
| 1942 |
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Lt. Edward O'Hare downs five out of nine Japanese bombers that are attacking the carrier Lexington. |
| 1943 |
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German troops of the Afrika Korps break through the Kasserine Pass, defeating U.S. forces. |
| 1954 |
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The Ford Foundation gives a $25 million grant to the Fund for Advancement of Education. |
| 1959 |
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The FCC applies the equal time rule to TV newscasts of political candidates. |
| 1962 |
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Mercury astronaut John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth. |
| 1963 |
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Moscow offers to allow on-site inspection of nuclear testing. |
| 1965 |
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Ranger 8 hits the moon and sends back 7,000 photos to the United States. |
| 1968 |
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North Vietnamese army chief in Hue orders all looters to be shot on sight. |
| 1971 |
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Young people protest having to cut their long hair in Athens, Greece. |
| 1982 |
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Carnegie Hall in New York begins $20 million in renovations. |
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Born on February 20 |
| 1726 |
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William Prescott, U.S. Revolutionary War hero at the Battle of Bunker Hill. |
| 1808 |
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Honore Daumier, French caricaturist. |
| 1838 |
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Ludwig Boltzmann, atomic physics engineer |
| 1888 |
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Marie Rambert, ballet dancer and director. |
| 1894 |
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Curt Richter, biologist. |
| 1898 |
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Jimmy Yancey, American blues pianist. |
| 1901 |
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Rene Dubos, microbiologist, developed the first commercial antibiotic. |
| 1901 |
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Louis I. Kahn, architect. |
| 1902 |
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Ansel Adams, American landscape photographer, especially of western wilderness and mountain panoramas. |
| 1904 |
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Aleksey Nikolayevich Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (1964-1980). |
| 1924 |
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Gloria Vanderbilt, fashion designer |
| 1925 |
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Robert Altman, film director (Nashville, The Player). |
| 1927 |
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Sidney Poitier, American actor, first African American male to win an Oscar (Lillies of the Field). |
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