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Yoon Suk Yeol
- Former president of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol (pictured) is sentenced to life imprisonment for orchestrating a failed insurrection.
- José Jerí is removed as the president of Peru by Congress, and replaced by José María Balcázar.
- American civil rights leader Jesse Jackson dies at the age of 84.
- The Nationalist Party, led by Tarique Rahman, wins the Bangladeshi general election.
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February 20: Day of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes in Ukraine (2014)
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Depiction of the Kraków Uprising
- 1816 – The Barber of Seville, an opera buffa composed by Gioachino Rossini, premiered at the Teatro Argentina in Rome to jeers from the audience.
- 1846 – Polish insurgents in the Free City of Kraków led an uprising (depicted) attempting to incite a fight for national independence that was put down by the Austrian Empire nine days later.
- 1931 – Paraguayan anarchists briefly seized the city of Encarnación as part of a larger plan to initiate a social revolution in the country.
- 1943 – The Saturday Evening Post published the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms, among the most widely distributed paintings ever produced, in support of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms.
- 1965 – The NASA spacecraft Ranger 8 spacecraft transmitted 7,137 photographs of the Moon in the final 23 minutes of its mission before crashing as planned into Mare Tranquillitatis.
- Judith Montefiore (b. 1784)
- Forbes Burnham (b. 1923)
- Percy Grainger (d. 1961)
- Audrey Munson (d. 1996)
More anniversaries:
The BL 60-pounder gun was a British 5-inch (127 mm) heavy field gun designed in 1903–1905 to provide a new capability that had been partially met by the interim QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) gun. It was designed for both horse draft and mechanical traction, and served throughout the First World War in the main theatres. It remained in service with British and Commonwealth forces in the inter-war period and in frontline service with British and South African batteries until 1942, being superseded by the BL 4.5-inch (110 mm) medium gun. Shortly after the Armistice of 1918, some 60-pounders were donated to the United States to resolve outstanding contractual obligations, although most were never used, eventually going to scrap drives in the Second World War or put on display as memorials. This 1915 photograph, taken by Ernest Brooks, shows a British Army artillery unit with a 60-pounder Mk I gun in action on a cliff top at Cape Helles, during the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War. The gun has the inscription "Annie" painted on the barrel.Photograph credit: Ernest Brooks