Sunday 20 February 2011

On This Day - 20th February


1902 - Ansel Adams born
1924 - Sidney Poitier and Gloria Vanderbilt born
1925 - Robert Altman born
1934 - Bobby Unser born
1937 - Nancy Wilson born
1941 - Buffy Sainte-Marie born
1946 - Sandy Duncan born
1948 - Jennifer O'Neill born
1949 - Ivana Trump born
1954 - Patty Hearst born
1958 - The government announces one the oldest naval dockyards in the UK will be shut down.
1962 - John Glenn becomes the first American astornaut to orbit the earth
1963 - Charles Barkley born
1964 - French Stewart born
1966 - Cindy Crawford born
1967 - Kurt Cobain and Andrew Shue born
1975 - Brian Littrell born
1983 - Hundreds of people are reported to have died in Assam as fierce fighting rages in the run-up to Indian elections.
1986 - The Soviets open a new phase in space exploration with the launch of the world's biggest space station, Mir.
1989 - Police are hunting two IRA bombers who attacked an army barracks at Tern Hill in Shropshire.
1993 - Two 10-year-old boys are charged with the abduction and murder of two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool.

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