On 20th February 1247 St David's Cathedral suffered earthquake damage. It is the earliest reference to an earthquake in Wales.
King James I was murdered in Perth, by a group led by Sir Robert Graham, today in 1437.Had it not been for his love of tennis James would have escaped his assassins. Fleeing his killers, he hid in the drain under his tennis court, however this offered no means of escape for the monarch, as he had only recently ordered it to be blocked after losing balls in it.
1472Orkney and Shetland were pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Princess Margaret, daughter of Christian I, the King of Norway and Denmark. As the wife of King James III of Scotland she was the Queen Consort and the mother of the future King James IV of Scotland.
1547Edward VI, aged 9 years old, was crowned at Westminster Abbey. Edward, the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and England's first monarch who was raised as a Protestant.
On 20th February 1841, The Governor Fenner, carrying emigrants to America, sank off Holyhead with the loss of 123 lives. It has been described as one of the most appalling calamities that ever occurred off the shores of Britain.
1962: American astronaut John Glenn becomes the first US-astronaut to orbit the Earth when his Mercury spacecraft Friendship 7 completes three orbits in 4 hours and 55 minutes.
Britain's first Post Bus service was introduced on 20th February 1967. It ran between Llanidloes and Llangurig. Post Buses covered 300 routes at their peak, where they provided a lifeline for isolated communities by combining mail delivery and collection with passenger transport.
….20 Feb 1963 The Beatles drove through the night from Liverpool to London to appear on the live lunchtime BBC radio program "Parade of the Pops." Performing ' Love Me Do ' and 'Please Please Me', the appearance lasted just over 4 minutes. They then drove another 180 mile trip back north for their performance that night at the Swimming Baths, Doncaster, Yorkshire.
20 Feb 1959 16 year old Jimi Hendrix made his stage debut when he played a show at the Temple De Hirsch Sinai synagogue in Seattle
