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20 February 1258Persia [Mongol conquests (1206–1405)]The last Abbasid caliph (Islamic ruler of Persia) al-Musta'sim and his family are put to death on the Mongol leader Hulagu's orders.
20 February 1790Habsburg Monarchy [political events]Archduke Leopold, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, becomes ruler of the Habsburg Monarchy on the death of his brother, Joseph II; in July he is elected Holy Roman Emperor as Leopold II.
20 February 1820France [administration]Elie, duc de Decazes, is dismissed as prime minister of France after the assassination of Charles-Ferdinand d'Artois, duc de Berry, and is succeeded by his predecessor, the more right-wing Armand du Plessis, duc de Richelieu.
20 February–9 March 1905China, Japan, Russian Empire [Russo–Japanese War (1904–05)]The Japanese forces under Field Marshal Iwao Oyama overcome a Russian force under General Alexei Kuropatkin, and capture the city of Mukden (Shenyang), a key point for the control of Manchuria.
20 February 1938UK [political events]The British foreign minister Anthony Eden resigns in protest at Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy.
20 February 1944Norway [World War II (1939–45)]Saboteurs blow up a ferry on Lake Tinnsjo, Norway, destroying Germany's entire supply of ‘heavy water’ (for use in atomic research).
20–27 February 1944Germany [World War II (1939–45)]During ‘Big Week’, a combined US–UK air assault on German aircraft-making capability, 18,874 tonnes/20,799 tons of bombs are dropped on selected targets in Germany.
20 February 1962USA [space exploration]US astronaut John Glenn, in the Mercury capsule Friendship 7, becomes the first US astronaut to orbit the Earth. He makes three orbits.
20 February 1985Ireland [family planning]The sale of contraceptives becomes legal in Eire.


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