2/20/2021 12:01:00 AM Today In History - February 20
John Glenn
Reprinted By Permission From OnThisDay.com
Today in History in 1792 the U.S. Postal Service created postage from 6 cents to 12 cents depending on the distance; in 1944 the Batman & Robin comic strip premiered in newspapers; and in 1962 John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in Friendship 7.
Our on this day in history archives contain over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:
Historical Events
1792 - US postal service created, postage 6 cents - 12 cents depending on distance
1816 - Rossini's opera "Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome
1861 - Department of Navy of Confederacy forms (US Civil War)
1877 - 1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky
1927 - Golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath
1938 - UK Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigns, says PM Chamberlain appeased Germany
1944 - Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers
1947 - Earl Mountbatten of Burma appointed as last viceroy of India to oversee the move to independence.
1947 - Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in LA
1960 - Jimi Hendrix, rock and roll guitarist, plays his first gig.
1962 - John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth (Friendship 7)
1971 - Major General Idi Amin Dada appoints himself president of Uganda
1987 - David Hartman quits ABC's "Good Morning America" after 11 years
1992 - Ross Perot says he'll run for President on Larry King Show
2003 - During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the club ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 300 others.
1998 - The warrior monk "Kung Fu" actor David Carradine (61) weds actress Marina Benjamin (45) on the Laramie Street on the back lot of Warner Bros. Studio
Famous Divorces
2007 - Baywatch actress Carmen Electra (34) divorces rocker Dave Navarro (39) due to irreconcilable differences after less than three years of marriage
Famous Deaths
1895 - Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77
1907 - Henri Moissan [Ferdinand-Frederic-], chemist (Nobel 1906), dies at 54
1920 - Robert E Peary, US pole explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909), dies at 63
1966 - Chester W Nimitz, US admiral (WW II), dies at 80
1972 - Walter Winchell, writer/actor (Dondi, Love & Hisses), dies at 74
1985 - Clarence Nash, American voice actor (Donald Duck), dies of leukaemia at 80
1992 - Dick York, actor (Bewitched), dies of emphysema at 63
1999 - Gene Siskel, American film critic (b. 1946)
2001 - Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (b. 1910)
2005 - Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1944)
2005 - John Raitt, American actor (b. 1917)
2006 - Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster (b. 1919)
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