February 20: What Happened on This Day in History (Elementary Level)?

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1. 1792 - The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.
2. 1872 - In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
3. 1877 - Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
4. 1965 - Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
5. 2013 - The smallest Extrasolar planet, Kepler-37b is discovered.
6. Famous Birthdays: William Prescott (American colonel), Ludwig Boltzmann (Austrian physicist), Elizabeth Holloway Marston (American psychologist), Ansel Adams (American photographer), Robert Huber (German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate)

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