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1947 : Lord Mountbatten On 20 February 1947, Lord Mountbatten was appointed viceroy of India to oversee the independence and partition of India between India and Pakistan. He was then appointed the first governor general of independent India, because of the good relations that he - and his wife - had with Nehru.
1962 : Friendship 7 On 20 February 1962, the spacecraft Friendship 7, from the Mercury program, piloted by John Glenn was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. This is the first spacecraft to make the complete rotation of the earth in orbit.
1986 : Station Mir On February 20, 1986, the first module of the Mir station, the largest space station in the world, is launched by a Proton rocket in Baikonur.
2003 : Fire in a Rhode Island nightclub On 20 February 2003, a fire broke out at a concert in a Rhode Island nightclub. One of pyrotechnic devices used for the concert ignited the foam soundproofing on the ceiling. 100 people were killed and 200 others were seriously injured.

Lord Mountbatten
It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.

Georges Bernanos, Escritor francés (1888)
Muhammad Naguib, Presidente de Egipto (1901)
Alexei Kosygin, Político soviético (1904)
Pierre Boulle, Escritor francés (1912)
Robert Altman, Director de cine americano (1925)
Sidney Poitier, Actor americano (1927)
Robert Huber, Químico alemán, Premio Nobel (1937)
Buffy Sainte-Marie, Cantante canadiense (1941)
Claude Miller, Director de cine francés (1942)
Richard Cocciante, Cantante franco-italiano (1946)
Jennifer O'Neill, Actriz americana (1948)
Gordon Brown, Primer ministro del Reino Unido (1951)
Anthony Head, Actor Inglés (1954)
Imogen Stubbs, Actriz inglesa (1961)
Cindy Crawford, Top model americana (1966)
Kurt Cobain, Músico estadounidense (Nirvana) (1967)
Lili Taylor, Actriz americana (1967)
Ophelie Winter, Actriz y cantante francesa (1974)
Brian Littrell, Cantante americano (Backstreet Boys) (1975)
Julia Jentsch, Actriz alemana (1978)
Tony Hibbert, Futbolista Inglés (1981)
Yulia Volkova, Cantante rusa (t.A.T.u.) (1985)
Diego Reis, Futbolista brasileño (1986)
Rihanna, Cantante de Barbados (1988)

Nicholas Bacon, Político inglés (1579)
Henri Moissan, Químico francés, Premio Nobel (1907)
Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Escritor sueco, Premio Nobel de la Paz (1916)
Robert Peary, Explorador estadounidense (1920)
La Bolduc, Cantante canadiense (1941)
Chester Nimitz, Almirante estadounidense (1966)
Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Física alemana, premio Nobel (1972)
René Cassin, Juez francés, Premio Nobel de la Paz (1976)
Edgar P. Jacobs, Dibujante belgo (1987)
Burt Lancaster, Actor americano (1994)