20th February
1939 - The British Industries Fair exhibits the country's first washing machine.
1980 - Joe Bower sets off from Los Angeles on stilts. He arrives 3,008 miles away in Kentucky in July.
1989 - An army barracks at Tern Hill in Shropshire is destroyed by an IRA bomb.
1995 - Blur wins four Brit Awards.
2000 - It emerges that MI5 have files on John Lennon.
2001 - It emerges that the first men on the moon had to go through US customs on their return.
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