When I looked up the actual date of his birth and found it to be March 15th, I realized that Roy was born under the right zodiacal sign for a watercolorist: the water sign of Pisces ( February 18 thru March 20 ).

" Willie " Lincoln was born on December 21, 1850, and died on February 20, 1862.

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession ; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed.

A free agent at the end of the season, on February 11, 2009, Dunn agreed to a two-year $ 20 million contract with the Washington Nationals.

ABC is Jin's fourth overall album, which was released on February 20, 2007

The Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris production ran from February 15, 2010 through February 20, 2010.

As Holly was signed both as a solo artist and a member of the Crickets, two debut albums were released: The " Chirping " Crickets on November 27, 1957 and Buddy Holly on February 20, 1958.

On the February 20, 2011, episode of Top Gear, James May had Bovril in an urn inside a Claas Dominator combine harvester in Norway, which was converted into a snow plough.

In tropical astrology, the Sun is considered to be in the sign Capricorn from December 22 to January 20, and in sidereal astrology, from January 15 to February 15.

* Francesco Riganti, Carlo Luigi Costantini, Duke Bonelli-Crescenzi, Antonio Bassi, Gioacchino Pessuti, Angelo Stampa, Domenico Maggi, Provisional Consuls ( 15 February – 20 March 1798 )

He purchased the school of at Newport, Isle of Wight, in December 1836, reopened it as a preparatory school on 20 February 1837, and moved it to Montpelier Road in Brighton in December 1837.

In January 2007, the group publicly announced their reformation and on 23 February, after 20 days of auditions, former Beck drummer Matt Sherrod joined Finn, Seymour and Mark Hart to complete the new line up.

At the 18th Party Conference ( 15 – 20 February 1941 ) it was concluded that the abolition of the Central Committee Department on Industry had led to the neglect of industry.

# Teamwork Means You Can't Pick the Side that's Right — February 13, 2011 to November 20, 2011

On February 20, 2008, the first of a series of Dilbert strips showed Wally being caught posting a comic strip which " compares managers to drunken lemurs ".

In February 1969, Day filed suit against Rosenthal and won the then-largest civil judgment ( over $ 20 million ) in the state of California.

** Series two: 13 episodes of 30 minutes broadcast between 19 February 1969 to 14 May 1969, Wednesdays at 17: 20.

* First degree confluence visit posted to the website: in New Hampshire, USA by Alex Jarrett ( project founder ) and Peter Cline on February 20, 1996.

On 20 February 1919, Habibullah Khan was assassinated on a hunting trip.

On 20 February 2007, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. announced that it was working with mobile phone search company AskMeNow to launch a mobile encyclopaedia.

On 20 February 1844, in accordance with his mother's will, he changed his surname from ' Bulwer ' to ' Bulwer-Lytton ' and assumed the arms of Lytton by royal licence.

* Its Zodiac signs are Aquarius ( until February 19 ) and Pisces ( February 20 onwards ).

The four paintings were published in The Saturday Evening Post on February 20, February 27, March 6 and March 13 in 1943.

Four days after Andropov's death, on 9 February 1984, Chernenko was elected as the party's General Secretary.

He died in February 1984 of kidney failure after disappearing from public view for several months.

* Resurrection of the Daleks: February 8 – February 15, 1984

* The first untethered spacewalk was made by American Bruce McCandless II on February 7, 1984, during Challenger mission STS-41-B, utilizing the Manned Maneuvering Unit.

François Roland Truffaut ( 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984 ) was an influential filmmaker and film critic, one of the founders of the French New Wave.

The perceived threat to Iraq in the summer of 1982 thus was serious enough to force Saddam Hussein to request the Nonaligned Movement to change the venue of its scheduled September meeting from Baghdad to India ; nevertheless, since the fall of 1982, the ground conflict has generally been a stalemated war of attrition — although Iran made small but demoralizing territorial advances as a result of its massive offensives in the reed marshes north of Basra in 1984 and in 1985, in Al Faw Peninsula in early 1986, and in the outskirts of Basra during January and February 1987.

He led the Soviet Union from 13 February 1984 until his death thirteen months later, on 10 March 1985.

Yuri Andropov died in February 1984, after just 15 months in office.

At the Central Committee plenary session on 13 February 1984, four days after Andropov's death, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Premier, and Politburo member Nikolai Tikhonov moved that Chernenko be elected general secretary, and the Committee duly voted him in.

* Daniels, Robert V. " The Chernenko Comeback ," New Leader, 67, 20 February 1984, 3 – 5.

Intense attacks against U. S. and Western interests, including two truck bombings of the US Embassy in 1983 and 1984 and the landmark attacks on the U. S. Marine and French parachute regiment barracks on October 23, 1983, led to an American withdrawal, while the virtual collapse of the Lebanese Army in February 1984 was a major blow to the government.

Maxwell Herman Alexander " Max " Newman, FRS ( 7 February 1897 – 22 February 1984 ) was a British mathematician and codebreaker.

The consortium had sold more than $ 50 million in computers by February 1984.

Executive Order 12464, dated February 23, 1984, authorized award of the Purple Heart as a result of terrorist attacks or while serving as part of a peacekeeping force subsequent to March 28, 1973.

Following the February 1984 withdrawal of the UN Multinational Force from Beirut and the departure of most of Israel's forces from southern Lebanon a year later, Syria launched an unsuccessful initiative to reconcile warring Lebanese factions and establish a permanent cease-fire.

David Samuel " Sam " Peckinpah ( February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984 ) was an American film director and screenwriter who achieved prominence following the release of the Western epic The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ).

Mauritania recognized the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic on February 27, 1984.

* February 8 – The 1984 Winter Olympics open in Sarajevo, SFRY.

* February 19 – The 1984 Winter Olympics close in Sarajevo.

* February 12 – Naomi Uemura, Japanese adventurer ( d. 1984 )

* February 20 – Ansel Adams, American photographer ( d. 1984 )

* February 25 – Lew Andreas, American basketball coach ( d. 1984 )