20^th February 1437
James I, King of Scotland
is murdered by assassins under the leadership of Walter, Earl of Atholl.

20^th February 1547, London
Edward VI of England became the King of England and was crowned in the Westminster Abbey. The new king was born on October 12, 1537 and passed away on July 06, 1553. He was the son of Henry VIII.

20^th February 1724, London
"Giulio Cesare", an italian opera composed by Georg Friedrich Händel, was shown for the first time.

20^th February 1810
Andreas Hofer
The Tyrolese Farmer and freedom fighter Andreas Hofer was shot on order of the French emperor Napoleon I. Hofer stood up for the independence of Tyrol and was the leader in the fight against Bavaria and France. A goal was among other things to back-conquer Austria which had surrendered to Bavaria during the course of the napolionic wars.

20^th February 1816, Rom
The "Barber of Seville", written by Gioacchino Rossini, was premiered at the Teatro Argentina and failt because of jealous disturbances of Giovanni Paisiello. Only the second notion was celebrated as a brilliant success.

20^th February 1827
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy,
German composer of classical music, directs his first overture to William Shakespeares work "A summernight dream". Not only the works of the English writer serve the great composer as source. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy is considered as exemplary representative of the romantic epoch and as more as admirer of Shakespeare, Hugo, Dumas and Balzac.

20^th February 1844, Wien
Ludwig Eduart Boltzmann, Austrian physicist.
Boltzmann is considered as a founder of the kinetic gas theory. He analyzed the distribution principle of the molecular energy distribution. His theses are designated as so-called Boltzmann theorem.
He selected suicide on September 5, 1906 in Duino near Goerz.

20^th February 1851, Nordhausen
Johann Andreas Schmalbauch, industrialist in Braunschweig
is considered as a pioneer of tin production and the packaging industry. 1898 he took over a small sheet-metal-goods factory in 1898 and exceeded with the tin manufacturing the million-border two years later. He died in the year of 1904. His company was renamed in Schmalbach at 1913.

20^th February 1857
The German shipping company "Norddeutscher Lloyd" opend its travel route to North and South America, Asia and Australia with the maiden voyage of the passenger liner "Bremen" in Bremen. The ship was driven by means of steam engines , and has however still some sails as additional driving power. Air traffic displaced the luxury passenger liners against middle of the last century. The shipping company "Norddeutscher Lloyd" is called "Hapag Lloyed" today.

20^th February 1872, New York City
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was opened in New York.

20^th February 1890, Berlin
SPD on the rise
When the Reichstag was elected on this day, the Social Democrats were able to book with 19.8 percent the most votes. But the success was illusiv: Due to the voting system in the German Empire they got only 35 of the 397 parliamentary seats. The newly elected Reichstag had a majority of opponents of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. After the electoral victory of the Social Democrats Bismarck presented a coup intention to the Emperor, but the Emperor refused it. A month after the election Bismarck was dismissed. This was mainly due to ongoing differences in matters of social reforms.

20^th February 1909, Riga
Heinz Erhardt, German actor and verse writer.
Heinz Erhardt belongs to the most populare comedians in the German television of the 50th and 60th. He liked to act the awkwards and love-worthy chaotic citizens. With biting humor did he caricature enigmaticly exactly this type of humans. Erhardt wrote also poems and verses with the same linguistic irony. He died on June 5, 1979 in Hamburg

20^th February 1914, Rochester, Kent, Groß Britannien.
Peter Rogers, British film producer.
Rogers is most well-known as producer of the Carry On series of British comedy films, beginning with Carry On Sergeant in 1958. There were 31 films in all and is producing Carry On London. His wife was the film producer Betty Box.

20^th February 1924, Essen, Germany.
Karl Hans Albrecht is a German entrepreneur. His father was the founder of the food chain "Aldi". He and his brother Theo Albrecht (1922 - 2010) continued the business. Karl Hans Albrecht became the only CEO of "Aldi South" as the discount store business was splitted off into 2 parts in 1960.

20^th February 1925, Kansas City, Missouri
Robert Altman, American director.
Robert Altman established a new era of the American movie during the 60th. His movies are life and society studies, packed as brilliant persiflage and bitter-sweet satire. 1969 received Altman the Oscar for the movie script of the anti-war movie M.A.S.H. Further large works are Nashville (1975), The Player (1992), Short Cuts (1993) und Cookies Fortune (1998).
Robert Altmann died on November 20, 2006 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

20^th February 1959, Braunschweig, Deutschland
Andrea Baum
was also born on a 20^th of February.
She is my wife.

20^th February 1988, Saint Michael, Barbados
Robyn Rihanna Fenty is an international successful singer from Barbados (a. o. „Unfaithful“ 2006, „Umbrella“ 2007, „Disturbia 2008“)and multiple Grammy-winner.