^B{^#!16!20 February^N! Feast day of St Eleutherius of Tournai, St Eucherius of OrlΘans, St Tyranno, St Zenobius, and St Wulfric.
^B{1811^B} Austria declared itself bankrupt. ^B{1938^B} Anthony Eden resigned as British foreign secretary after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain decided to negotiate with Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini. ^B{1947^B} Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed viceroy of India, the last person to hold this office. ^B{1962^B} US astronaut John Glenn orbited the Earth three times in the space capsule ^I{Friendship 7^I}. ^B{1985^B} The sale of contraceptives became legal in the Irish Republic. ^B{1989^B} An army barracks at Tern Hill, Shropshire, UK, was destroyed by an IRA bomb.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Voltaire, French writer and philosopher, ^B{1694^B}; HonorΘ Daumier, French painter, ^B{1808^B}; Marie Rambert, British dancer and founder of the Ballet Rambert, ^B{1888^B}; Enzo Ferrari, Italian automobile manufacturer, ^B{1898^B}; Robert Altman, US film director, ^B{1925^B}; Sidney Poitier, US film actor, ^B{1927^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}King James I of Scotland, assassinated ^B{1437^B}; Benedict Spinoza, Dutch philosopher, ^B{1677^B}; Aurangzeb, last of the Mogul rulers of India, ^B{1707^B}; Percy Grainger, Australian-born composer, ^B{1961^B}; Walter Winchell, US journalist, ^B{1972^B}; Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian author, ^B{1984^B}.
