February 20

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February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 314 days remaining until the end of the year (315 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_20

on this day in History
Lead Story
1985 Ireland allows sale of contraceptives

ALSO ON THIS DAY
American Revolution
1792 Postal Service Act regulates United States Post Office Department
Automotive
1997 Kramer on “Seinfeld” adopts a highway
Civil War
1864 Battle of Olustee
Cold War
1976 SEATO disbands
Crime
1974 Atlanta Constitution editor is kidnapped
Disaster
2003 Rhode Island nightclub burns
General Interest
1725 American colonists practice scalping
1951 My wife Sharon was born in Bucyrus, Ohio
1962 An American orbits earth
1986 Chunnel plans announced
Hollywood
1992 John Singleton nominated for Best Director Oscar
Literary
1950 Dylan Thomas arrives in New York
Music
2003 Fire engulfs nightclub during Great White show
Old West
1902 Ansel Adams is born
Presidential
1792 George Washington signs the Postal Service Act
Sports
1998 Tara Lipinski becomes youngest Olympic figure skating gold medalist
Vietnam War
1968 Hearings begin on American policy in Vietnam
World War I
1919 Amir of Afghanistan is assassinated
World War II
1942 Pilot O’Hare becomes first American WWII flying ace

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1943 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.


"In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world.

The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world.

The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world.

The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world.

That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb."



—Franklin Delano Roosevelt





                

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Woops, not Norman Rockwell, but another Freedom Pic...

WALLt  -  Freedom from Intelligence