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February 20
'''February 20''' in history:
* 1792, the Postal Service Act, establishing the [[Directory:United States of America|United States]] Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington
* 1809, the Supreme Court, in United States v. Peters, ruled the power of the federal government is greater than that of any individual state
* 1839, Congress prohibited dueling in the District of Columbia
* 1872, in New York City, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens
* 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt signed an immigration act which excluded "idiots, imbeciles, feebleminded persons, epileptics, insane persons" from being admitted to the United States
* 1931, [[Directory:California|California]] gets the go-ahead by the U.S. Congress to build the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
* 1933, the Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would end Prohibition in the United States
* 1938, Anthony Eden resigned as British foreign secretary following Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's decision to negotiate with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
* 1943, American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies
* 1947, State of Prussia ceases to exist
* 1962, Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn orbits the earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes, becoming the first American to orbit the earth
* 1987, Soviet authorities released Jewish activist Josef Begun
* [[2007]], in a victory for President [[Directory:George W. Bush|Bush]], a divided federal appeals court ruled that Guantanamo Bay detainees could not use the U.S. court system to challenge their indefinite imprisonmen
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