This day in History - February 20

473 Historic Events for February 20
1940 Birth Barbara Laine Ellis, singer
1940 Birth Christoph Eschenbach, Breslau, Germany, pianist/conductor
1940 Birth RA Weiss, director (Institute of Cancer Research)
1940 Birth V Payne, British headmistress (Malvern Girls' College)
1940 Event Larry Clinton and his Orchestra record "Limehouse Blues"
1940 Birth Jimmy Greaves, British broadcaster/soccer player
1941 Event Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation
1941 Event Romania breaks relations with Netherlands
1941 Event 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland
1941 Birth Buffy Sainte-Marie, Maine, folksinger (Now That the Buffalo Are Gone)
1942 Birth Claude Miller, director (Garde a Vue, Little Thief, Wild Child)
1942 Death Guido Gasperini, composer, dies at 76
1942 Birth Mitch McConnell, (Sen-R-KY, 1985- )
1942 Birth Phil Esposito, NHL center/GM (Bruins, Rangers)
1942 Event Lt E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers
1942 Birth Charlie Gillett, Lancashire, rock broadcaster (Sound of the City)
1942 Birth Peter Strauss, Croton-on-Hudson NY, actor (Rich Man Poor Man)
1942 Birth David O'Dowd, Chief Constable (Northamptonshire)
1943 Birth Aleksandr Pavlovich Alexandrov, Russian, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-9, TM-3)
1943 Birth Lord McNally
1943 Birth Mike Leigh, dramatist/director (High Hopes, Secrets and Lies)
1943 Birth Antonio Inoki, [Kanji Rikidozan], wrestler (NJPW/JWA)
1943 Event Phil Wrigley and B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League
1943 Event New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (M‚xico)
1943 Event Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia