On this day …
February 20, 2015
- In 1547, Edward VI was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
- In 1792, President George Washington signed the Postal Service Act, establishing the Post Office Department.
- In 1816, Rossini’s opera The Barber of Seville premiered in Rome.
- In 1872, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened in New York City.
- In 1873, the University of California opened its first medical school in San Francisco.
- In 1931, the U.S. Congress approved construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
- In 1952, Emmett Ashford became the first African-American umpire in organized baseball.
- In 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth, aboard Friendship 7.
- In 2003, a pyrotechnic display during a concert at the Station nightclub in West Warwick, R.I. started a fire that killed 100 and injured more than 200 others.
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