THURSDAY, Feb. 20, 2025

1792-U.S. postal service created, postage 6-12 cents depending on distance

1872-New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art opens

1873-British Naval Officer John Moresby is the first European to discover Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, claims it for the United Kingdom

1938-U.K. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigns, stating Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has appeased Nazi Germany

1944-Battle of Eniwetok: U.S. forces take Enewetak Atoll at the cost of 37 Americans killed or missing and 94 wounded, Japanese losses were 800 dead and 23 prisoners

1947-Earl Mountbatten of Burma is appointed the last viceroy of India to oversee the move to independence

1962-John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth, aboard Friendship 7

1987-Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by a computer store in Salt Lake City

1991-A gigantic statue of Albania's long-time dictator, Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the Albanian capital, Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters

2012-South Korea angers North Korea as it proceeds with live fire drills in disputed Korean sea borders