Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 20
- 1472 - James III of Scotland annexed the Orkney and Shetland Islands from Denmark-Norway.
- 1810 - Andreas Hofer, a Tyrolean patriot and the leader of a rebellion against Napoleon's forces, was executed.
- 1913 - King O'Malley drove in the first survey peg to mark the commencement of work on the construction of Canberra, Australia.
- 1959 - The Avro Arrow supersonic jet fighters programme in Canada was cancelled by the Diefenbaker government.
- 1965 - The Ranger 8 spacecraft successfully transmitted 7,137 photographs of the moon in the final 23 minutes of its mission before crashing in Mare Tranquillitatis.
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