WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Today is Wednesday, February 20, the 51st day of 2013. There are 314 days left in the year.

1725 ― Ten sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for bounty

1811 ― Austria declares bankruptcy

1816 ― Rossini's opera “The Barber of Seville” premieres in Rome

1831 ― Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow

1869 ― Tennessee Governor W. C. Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis

1938 ― U.K. Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says P.M. Chamberlain appeased Germany

1944 ― Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers

1949 ― First International Pancake Race held (Liberal, Kans.)

1994 ― Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals

1998 ― U.S. movie box office hits quickest $1 billion for year (51 days)