February 20
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1725 - The first known Indian scalping by white men was reported on this day in the New Hampshire colony.1792 - President George Washington signed the Postal Service Act. Letters delivered up to 30 miles cost six cents to mail. For letters up to 150 miles, postage was 12-1/2 cents. And, just like today, letters over 150 miles were not guaranteed to be delivered at all.
1872 - Luther Crowell received a patent for a machine for manufacturing paper bags. Patent #123,811 allowed for the bags to have two longitudinal inward folds. Check out your bags and see if you have one like that!
1872 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened in New York City.
1872 - Silas Noble and J.P. Cooley of Granville, MA patented the toothpick manufacturing machine. Not very environmental ... but popular.
1921 - Rudolph Valentino starred in the motion picture, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, which was released this day.
1940 - Larry Clinton and his orchestra recorded Limehouse Blues on Victor Records.
1944 - 970 bombers of the U.S. Eighth Air Force began raiding German aircraft manufacturing centers in Hamburg, Leipzig and Braunschweig. The series of attacks became known as ‘Big Week’. The Eighth, Ninth and the Fifteenth Air Force together flew more than 3,800 sorties and dropped 10,000 tons of bombs during the six day period starting this day. In all, roughly half of the German facilities for aircraft production were destroyed or heavily damaged, including nearly a thousand fighter aircraft ready or near completion.
1947 - A vicious chemical blast at the O’Connor Electro-Plating Company ripped apart a four-block area in a Los Angeles manufacturing district. Seventeen people were killed and 150 injured.
1952 - One of the game’s most popular figures, Emmett L. Ashford, became the first black umpire in organized baseball. Ashford was authorized to be a substitute in the Southwestern International League.
1952 - A true American classic, The African Queen, opened at the Capitol Theatre in New York City. The film starred Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart, under the direction of John Huston. Critics accused Huston of larking when he adapted the famous book to film. And he laughed all the way to the bank.
1958 - Racing jockey Eddie Arcaro got win number 4,000, as he rode the winner at Santa Anita race track in Southern California.
1962 - America’s first space hero, John Glenn, made space history. Glenn orbited the world three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes. “Godspeed, John Glenn. You’re cleared for orbit.”
1963 - Baseball great Willie ‘Say Hey’ Mays signed with the San Francisco Giants as baseball’s highest-paid player. He earned $100,000 a year. Times have changed, haven’t they? Bat boys make that much now, it seems...
1965 - The U.S. Ranger 8 spacecraft crashed on the moon after sending back thousands of pictures of the lunar surface.
1966 - Chester W. Nimitz, WWII U.S. admiral, died at his home on Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco Bay. He would have been 81 years old on the day of his funeral (Feb 24) at Golden Gate National Cemetery.
1971 - The National Emergency Warning Center in Colorado erroneously alerted radio and TV stations across the U.S. and ordered them off the air. The nuclear alert included the proper code word, which meant that broadcasters should have treated it as genuine, but most just ignored it.
1973 - Bob Seagren won The Superstars competition held in Rotonda, FL. The track and field star got $39,700 in prize money for winning four of seven scheduled events.
1974 - After a decade of marriage, Cher filed for separation from husband Sonny Bono. Not long afterwards, she filed for divorce and the accompanying alimony. This time she sang, I Got You Babe, for real ... before becoming a successful solo singer and movie actress in films such as Moonstruck (Best Actress Oscar in 1987).
1982 - Singer Pat Benatar married musician-producer Neil Geraldo in Hawaii.
1987 - After 11 years on the job, David Hartman exited ABC’s Good Morning America. He introduced new co-host, Charles Gibson who, with Joan Lunden, would co-host the morning television program into 1998.
1988 - Real estate developer Peter Kalikow purchased the New York Post from Rupert Murdoch for $37.6 million. Murdoch was forced to sell the paper because of tightened media ownership rules in the United States.
1989 - Tone-Loc’s Wild Thing became the second single to be certified double-platinum in the U.S. Double platinum signifies the single had sold two-million copies. Since the double platinum category was created in 1984, only one other single, We Are the World, had reached that level.
1991 - Quincy Jones’ Back on the Block was named album of the year at the 33rd Annual Grammy Awards. The best new artist was Mariah Carey.
1993 - Italian auto-designer Ferrucio Lamborghini (Lamborghini, Miura) died. He was 76 years old.
1996 - American gangsta rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg and his former bodyguard were acquitted in the 1993 shooting death of a gang member.
1996 - Baseball showman Charlie O. Finley died in Chicago at age 77.
1997 - The National Transportation Safety Board called for a speedup of the the redesign of rudder controls on Boeing 737s. The NTSB cited rudder problems suspected in deadly crashes near Colorado Springs, CO and Pittsburgh, PA.
1998 - These films opened in theatres across the U.S.: Dangerous Beauty, starring Catherine Mccormack, Rufus Sewell and Oliver Platt; Palmetto, with Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Shue and Gina Gershon; and Senseless, featuring Marlon Wayans Matthew Lillard David Spade Rip Torn.
1999 - Movie reviewer Gene Siskel died at a hospital near Chicago. He was 53 years old. Siskel died when complications developed after brain surgery.
2000 - Defending Winston Cup champ Dale Jarrett won his third Daytona 500 in eight years, passing surprise contender Johnny Benson for the lead four laps from the end. Jarrett’s $1,277,975 share of the purse, coupled with a million-dollar bonus from series sponsor Winston, gave him the largest single-day payoff in the history of the sport.
2001 - Space Shuttle Atlantis landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California following a 13-day mission to the International Space Station. Three straight days of bad weather prevented the ship from returning to its Florida home port.
2002 - Apolo Anton Ohno, U.S. speed skater, won a gold medal after Kim Dong Sung of South Korea was disqualified (for blocking Ohno with a half-lap to go) in the 1,500 meter race.
2003 - Former U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Brian Patrick Regan was convicted in Alexandria, VA for offering to sell secrets to Iraq and China. He was later sentenced to life without parole.
2003 - The Station, a Warwick, RI nightclub, erupted in a raging fire during a pyrotechnics display at a rock concert. 98 people were killed and 200 others injured. Flammable soundproofing -- and the fireworks -- were blamed for the tragedy.
2004 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Against the Ropes, starring Meg Ryan, Omar Epps, Joe Cortese, Tim Daly, Tony Shalhoub, Kerry Washington and Skye McCole Bartusiak; Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, with Lindsay Lohan, Alison Pill and Adam Garcia; Eurotrip, starring Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Michelle Trachtenberg, Travis Wester, Matt Damon, Joel Kirby, Kristin Kreuk, Lucy Lawless, Joanna Lumley, Johnathan Mankuta, J.P. Manoux and Molly Schade; and Welcome to Mooseport, with Ray Romano, Gene Hackman, Marcia Gay Harden, Maura Tierney, Fred Savage, Rip Torn and Christine Baranski.
2004 - Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger directed the California state attorney general to take legal steps to stop San Francisco from granting marriage licenses to gay couples.
2004 - J.R. Triplett of Winchester, Virginia won $230 million in the Mega Millions lottery, becoming the biggest winner in the game’s history (to that time).
2005 - Deaths on this day: Actress Sandra Dee (Gidget, Tammy and the Doctor, married to singer Bobby Darin); singer John Raitt (88)(Carousel, The Pajama Game, father of singer Bonnie Raitt); Hunter S. Thompson (67) (gonzo journalist: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
2006 - British revisionist historian David Irving was sentenced to jail for three years by an Austrian court. Irving had pleaded guilty to denying the existence of the Holocaust during a visit to Austria in 1989. (Irving’s lawyers finally won in the Austrian Court of Appeal and he was released on Dec 21, 2006.)
2007 - Donation Day: 38-year-old Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo, and his wife, Akiko Yamazaki, donated $75 million to Stanford University; Canada’s New Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced the establishment of a research institute in Canada to develop an AIDS vaccine, committing a total of $119 million to the project.
2008 - A U.S. Navy SM-3 missile knocked out a dying U.S. spy satellite. Officials explained that they had to destroy an onboard tank of toxic fuel.
2009 - Tyler Perrys Madea Goes to Jail opened in U.S. theatres. The comedy crime drama stars Tyler Perry, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Derek Luke, Tamela Mann, David Mann, Salli Richardson, Viola Davis, Judge Mablean, Sofia Vergara, Aisha Hinds, Ion Overman, Ronreaco Lee and Vanessa Ferlito.
2009 - Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal announced that he would decline stimulus money specifically targeted at expanding state unemployment insurance coverage. He was the first, and only, state executive to refuse any part of the federal government’s payout to states.
2010 - Germany’s finance ministry sketched out a plan in which countries using the euro currency would provide aid worth between €20-25 billion ($27-$33.7 billion) for Greece.
2010 - Former U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig died at 86 years of age of complications from an infection. The four-star general had served as a top adviser to three presidents and had sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1988.
2011 - Egyptian banks opened after a week-long closure as the economy struggled to recover after political turmoil caused by the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak. Workers at Misr Spinning and Weaving, Egypt’s largest factory, ended a strike and went back to work after the strikers’ main demands were met.
2012 - The British government staged a ‘drought summit’ to decide what action to take as low rainfall resulted in large areas of Britain facing drought. The summit stopped short of recommending dramatic measures to save water, but urged that water metering be introduced across the U.K. if the spectre of annual droughts was to be avoided.
2013 - Human Rights Watch described Mexico’s anti-drug offensive as being ‘disastrous’. The report cited 249 cases of disappearances -- 149 of which showed evidence of being carried out by the military or law enforcement officers.
2014 - Former New Orleans, Louisiana Mayor Ray Nagin was convicted on 20 counts accepting bribes. The federal corruption charges were for illegal dealings with city vendors, dating back to 2004. (On July 9, 2014, Nagin was sentenced to ten in prison and ordered to pay more than $585,000 in restitution and forfeiture.)
2015 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres included: The DUFF, with Bella Thorne, Mae Whitman and Robbie Amell; Hot Tub Time Machine 2, starring Gillian Jacobs, Adam Scott, Thomas Lennon, Collette Wolfe, Chevy Chase, Clark Duke, Craig Robinson and Rob Corddry; McFarland, USA, starring Kevin Costner, Maria Bello and Morgan Saylor; Badlapur, with Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Varun Dhawan and Huma Qureshi; and Digging Up the Marrow, starring Ray Wise, Adam Green and Will Barratt.
2015 - Western Pennsylvania saw record low temperatures in New Castle (-18), Butler (-15) and Pittsburgh (-6).
2015 - The U.S. government said it was fining Japanese air bag maker Takata Corp. $14,000 per day for failing to fully cooperate in an investigation of faulty and potentially dangerous air bag inflators.
2016 - An Egyptian appeals court ordered the jailing of author Ahmed Naji for two years. The sentence was punishment for Naji after Akhbar al-Adab magazine published a sexually explicit excerpt of his novel, The Use of Life, that prosecutors said violated public modesty.
2016 - Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump grabbed a big win in the South Carolina primary, while Democrat Hillary Clinton breathed life into her sluggish campaign with a victory over Bernie Sanders in Nevada.
2017 - Norway announced that it had joined an international initiative to raise millions of dollars to replace shortfalls left by POTUS Donald Trump’s ban on U.S.-funded groups that provided information on abortion worldwide.
2018 - Brazil’s Senate overwhelmingly approved the country’s army taking over Rio de Janeiro’s city security. The crackdown followed a breakdown of law and order in drug-ravaged neighborhoods of Rio.
2018 - Venezuela became the first country to launch its own version of bitcoin, a move it hoped would provide a much-needed boost to its credit-stricken economy.
2019 - Russian dictator Vladimir Putin threatened to deploy new missiles against Western capitals. The bluster came as he delivered a state of the nation address -- aimed at boosting falling approval ratings. Putin said POTUS Donald Trump abandoned a key arms control pact - the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - to free up U.S. efforts to build new missiles.
2019 - Microsoft reported its discovery of hacking (during Sep-Dec, 2018) that had targeted democratic institutions, think tanks and non-profit organizations in Europe. The company offered a cyber security service to several countries to close security gaps. The hacks occurred between September and December 2018, targeting employees of the German Council on Foreign Relations and European offices of The Aspen Institute and The German Marshall Fund.
2020 - Trump loyalist Roger Stone was sentenced to 40 months in prison for lying to Congress, tampering with a witness and obstructing a House investigation. (Trump pardoned Stone on December 23, 2020.)
2020 - The University of Southern California announced that it was going to make tuition free for students from families with annual incomes of $80,000 or less starting in the fall of 2020.
2020 - China moved to help its downstream neighbors cope with a prolonged drought by releasing more water from its dams on the Mekong River. China also said it was considering sharing information on hydrology to provide further assistance in the future. The recent drought had severely hurt farming and fishing in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.
2021 - The right engine of a Boeing 777-200, headed from Denver to Honolulu with 231 passengers and 10 crew aboard, erupted in flames. The plane was forced to make an emergency return to Denver International Airport. Huge pieces of the engine casing and chunks of fiberglass had rained down on a sports fields and on streets and lawns, of Broomfield, just missing one home and crushing a truck. The explosion, visible from the ground, left a trail of black smoke in the sky, and tiny pieces of insulation filled the air like ash.
2021 - Argentina’s new Health Minister Carla Vizzotti was sworn in after the country was rattled by a scandal over VIP coronavirus vaccine access. Vizzotti pledged to strengthen oversight and transparency of the inoculation program. Her predecessor had resigned after reports surfaced that people had been able to use connections to get priority access to COVID-19 vaccines.
2022 - The Beijing Olympics ended with Norway winning the most medals (37). The U.S. came in 5th with 25 medals including 8 gold. Some 2,900 athletes compted during the 16 days of contests -- 109 events in seven Olympic winter sports. NBC-TV’s coverage drew 11.4 million viewers per night on average, compared with 19.8 million for the Pyeongchang Games in 2018.
2023 - President Joe Biden, in a surprise trip to Kyiv, Ukraine, announced a half-billion dollars of additional assistance. “One year later, Kyiv stands. And Ukraine stands. Democracy stands,” Biden said. The visit came after multiple invitations from Zelensky, who said he believed it was important for Biden to see the situation up close. The visit also followed in the footsteps of other world leaders in Europe who’ve met with Zelensky.
2023 - A shooting along a Mardi Gras parade route in New Orleans left one person dead and four others injured, including a young girl. The gunfire erupted along the route of the popular Krewe of Bacchus parade, traditionally held in the run-up to the city’s raucous Mardi Gras celebration. “We really wanted this to be a safe Mardi Gras and we’ll continue to work towards that end,” said Hans Ganthier, chief deputy superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department.
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Birthdays on This Day February 20
1726 - William Prescott
soldier: American Revolutionary War: “Don’t fire until you see the white’s of their eyes.”; died Oct 13, 17951829 - Joseph Jefferson
actor: Rip Van Winkle; died Apr 23, 19051902 - Ansel Adams
commercial photographer: visionary photos of western landscapes; won three Guggenheim grants to photograph the national parks [1944-1958]; developed zone exposure to get maximum tonal range from black-and-white film; conservationist: served on the Sierra Club board [1934-1971]; died Apr 22, 19841904 - Aleksei (Nikolevich) Kosygin
Soviet premier [1964-1980]; died Dec 18, 19801906 - Gale Gordon
actor: The Lucy Show, Here’s Lucy, Life with Lucy, Our Miss Brooks; radio actor: Flash Gordon, Speed Gibson, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Great Gildersleeve; died Jun 30, 19951906 - Jack Jackson
musician: trumpet; bandleader; DJ: Radio Luxembourg; died Jan 15, 19781908 - Leon Lontoc
actor: Burke’s Law, Adventures of Nick Carter, Panic in the City, The Ugly American, The Gallant Hours, The Revolt of Mamie Stover, City Beneath the Sea; died Jan 22, 19741910 - Carl Stotz
‘Father of Little League Baseball’: founded Little League baseball organization; died June 4, 1992
1914 - John (Charles) Daly
Emmy Award-winning reporter [1955]; TV host: What’s My Line; died Feb 24, 19911915 - Chick (Melvin) Harbert
golfer: PGA Champion [1954]; died Sep 1, 19921924 - Gloria Vanderbilt
fashion designer; subject of famous Vanderbilt child-custody case; died Jun 17, 20191925 - Robert Altman
director: M*A*S*H, Nashville, Brewster McCloud; died Nov 20, 20061926 - Bob Richards
'Vaulting Vicar': Olympic pole-vaulter: only man to win 2 golds [1952, 1956] and a total of 3 medals [bronze, 1948] in this event; died Feb 26, 20231927 - Sidney Poitier
Academy Award-winning actor: Lilies of the Field [1963]; Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, To Sir With Love, Sneakers; died Jan 6, 20221928 - Roy (Elroy Leon) Face
baseball: pitcher: Pittsburgh Pirates [all-star: 1959-1961/World Series: 1960], Detroit Tigers, Montreal Expos1929 - Amanda Blake (Beverly Louise Neill)
actress: Gunsmoke: Miss Kitty; Betrayal, The Glass Slipper, Sabre Jet, Stars in My Crown; died Aug 16, 19891930 - Patricia Smith
actress: Spirit of St. Louis, Save the Tiger; died Jan 2, 20111934 - Bobby Unser
race car driver: Indianapolis 500 winner [1968, 1975, 1981]; died May 2, 20211937 - Roger Penske
race car driver, team owner: CART; speedway owner, operator of Cleveland Grand Prix for Indy cars1937 - Nancy Wilson
singer: (You Don’t Know) How Glad I Am, Face It Girl, It’s Over, What Are You Doing New Years?, Yesterday’s Love Songs, Today’s Blues; died Dec 13, 20181938 - Richard Beymer
actor: The Diary of Anne Frank, West Side Story, Twin Peaks, The Longest Day1941 - Buffy (Beverly) Sainte-Marie
singer: I’m Gonna Be a Country Girl Again, Mister Can’t You See, Up Where We Belong, He’s an Indian Cowboy in the Rodeo; songwriter: Universal Soldier, Until It’s Time for You to Go; Married to Jack Nitzsche1941 - Clyde Wright
baseball: pitcher: California Angels [all-star: 1970], Milwaukee Brewers, Texas Rangers1942 - Phil Esposito
Hockey Hall of Famer: NHL: Chicago Blackhawks, Boston Bruins [NHL MVP: 1969, 1974], NY Rangers1942 - Mitch Mcconnell
right-wing U.S. Senator from Kentucky [Jan 3, 1985- ]: Republican Senate Majority Leader [2015-2021]; Republican Senate Minority Leader [2021- ]1944 - Lew Soloff
musician: trumpet: group: Blood, Sweat and Tears [1968-1973]: You’ve Made Me So Very Happy, Spinning Wheel, When I Die, Just One Smile, I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know; died Mar 8, 20151946 - Brenda Blethyn
actress: Pride & Prejudice, Little Voice, Secrets & Lies, Saving Grace, Plots with a View, Clubland, Little Voice, Beyond the Sea, Atonement, The Buddha of Suburbia, Anne Frank: The Whole Story, Belonging, War and Peace, Vera1946 - Sandy Duncan
dancer, actress: Peter Pan, Pinnochio, Roots, The Hogan Family1946 - J. (Jerome) Geils
musician: guitar: group: The J. Geils Band: Looking for a Love, Give It to Me, Freeze-Frame, Centerfold; died Apr 11, 20171947 - Peter Strauss
actor: Peter Gunn, Rich Man Poor Man, Soldier Blue, The Yearling1948 - Pierre Bouchard
hockey: NHL: Montreal Canadiens, Washington Capitals1948 - Jennifer O’Neill
actress: The Summer of ’42, Cover-Up, Rio Lobo1949 - Ivana Trump
model, writer: For Love Alone: The Ivana Trump Story; ex-wife of Donald Trump1950 - Walter Becker
musician: guitar: group: Steely Dan; died Sep 2, 20171951 - Edward Albert
actor: Mind Games, Butterflies are Free, The Heist, Terminal Entry, Guarding Tess; died Sep 22, 20061951 - (James) Gordon Brown
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom [2007-2010]1951 - Randy California (Wolfe)
singer, musician: guitar: group: Spirit: I Got a Line on You, Nature’s Way; solo: LPs: Kaptain Kopter and the Fabulous Twirlybirds, Shattered Dreams, Spirit of ’84; died Jan 2, 1997 in swimming accident off Molokai, HI1954 - Anthony Head
actor: Imagine Me and You, Fat Slags, And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself, I’ll Be There, Best Actress, Royce, La Collina del diavolo1954 - Patty Hearst (Shaw)
publishing heiress; kidnapee; actress: Cry-Baby1958 - Sean Michaels
actor [1985-2013]: X-rated films: Between a Rock and a Hot Place, Sexy Nurses on and Off Duty, Ready, Willing and Anal, From a Whisper to a Scream, The Devil in Grandma Jones, Photographic Mammaries 3, Desperate Mothers and Wives1958 - James Wilby
actor: Howard’s End, A Tale of Two Cities Conspiracy, A Summer Story, A Handful of Dust, Maurice, Dreamchild1960 - Joel Hodgson
producer, writer, actor: Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mr. B’s Lost Shorts, The TV Wheel1963 - Charles Barkley
basketball: Philadelphia 76ers [1984–1992]; Phoenix Suns [1992–1996]; Houston Rockets [1996–2000]; shortest player [6’6"] to lead NBA in rebounds1963 - Ian Brown
singer: group: Stone Roses [1963-1996, 2011]; solo LPs: Unfinished Monkey Business, Golden Greats, Music of the Spheres, Solarized, The World Is Yours, My Way, Ripples1964 - Willie Garson
actor: Sex and the City [TV/film], Sex and the City 2, White Collar, John from Cincinnati, City of Angels, Hollywood Off-Ramp, Level 9, Spin City, Stargate SG-1; died Sep 21, 20211964 - Jeff Maggert
golf champ: Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic [1993], WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship [1999], FedEx St. Jude Classic [2006]1964 - Rodney Rowland
actor: Space: Above and Beyond, The 6th Day, Mr. Fix It, Shade, Soulkeeper, Panic, Marshal Law, If Someone Had Known, Under the Boardwalk1964 - French Stewart
actor: 3rd Rock from the Sun, The New Partridge Family, Duck, Inspector Gadget 2, Home Alone 4, Clockstoppers, Love Stinks, Dick, Mom1965 - Ron Eldard
professional boxer; actor: ER, Diggers, Freedomland, House of Sand and Fog, Ghost Ship, Black Hawk Down, Mystery, Alaska, Deep Impact, Men Behaving Badly1966 - Cindy Crawford
supermodel, actress: Fair Game, Sex with Cindy Crawford, The Simian Line1967 - Kurt Cobain
musician, singer: group: Nirvana: LP: Nevermind; creator of grunge rock; died April 5, 19941967 - Andrew Shue
actor: Melrose Place1967 - Lili Taylor
actress: Six Feet Under, The Secret, The Notorious Bettie Page, Casa de los babys, 6, The Haunting, The Impostors1973 - Kimberley Davies
actress: Death to the Supermodels, Seconds to Spare, Made, The Next Best Thing, Psycho Beach Party, Storm Catcher, True Love and Chaos1975 - Brian (Thomas) Littrell
singer: group: Backstreet Boys: LPs: Backstreet Boys, Star Profile, Millennium1978 - Lauren Ambrose
actress: Six Feet Under, Admissions, Psycho Beach Party, Can’t Hardly Wait1978 - Jay Hernandez
actor: Magnum P.I. [2018 reboot], Crazy/Beautiful, Friday Night Lights, World Trade Center, Nothing Like the Holidays, Six Degrees, Last Resort, Hostel, Suicide Squad, Bad Moms, The Expanse1981 - Majandra Delfino
actress: State’s Evidence, Ultra, Celeste in the City, The Learning Curve, Traffic, Zeus and Roxanne, Roswell1983 - Jeremy Foley
actor: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Caitlin’s Way, Dante’s Peak, Soccer Dog; voice actor: Casper: A Spirited Beginning, Casper Meets Wendy1983 - Justin Verlander
baseball [pitcher]: Detroit Tigers [2005–2017]; Houston Astros [2017–2020]: 2017 World Series champs1984 - Trevor Noah
stand-up comedian, TV host: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah; author of his autobiographical comedy book: Born a Crime; more1987 - Miles Teller
actor: Rabbit Hole, The Spectacular Now, Project X, 21 & Over, That Awkward Moment, Divergent, Two Night Stand1988 - Rihanna (Robyn Rihanna Fenty)
multi-Grammy Award-winning singer: SOS, Pon de Replay, Umbrella, Take a Bow, Disturbia, Don’t Stop the Music, Russian Roulette, Hard, Rude Boy, Only Girl [In the World], What’s My Name?, S&M, Man Down, We Found Love, Talk That Talk1988 - Tracy Spiridakos
actress: Revolution, Chicago P.D., Rags, Majority Rules!, Bates Motel1989 - Jack Falahee
actor: How to Get Away with Murder, Twisted, The Carrie Diaries, Escape from Polygamy, Hunter, Blood and Circumstance, Slider, Rage2003 - Olivia Rodrigo
singer: Drivers License, Deja Vu,Good 4 U; actress: Bizaardvark, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series; more
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Hit Music on This Day February 20
1945Accentuate the Positive (facts) - Johnny Mercer
I Dream of You (facts) - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Freddy Stewart)
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