This Day In History

February 20
1872
In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
1933
The Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution that will end Prohibition in the United States.
1933
Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.
1988
The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
1997
China's reformist Deng Xiaoping dies. China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping has died at the age of 92 after suffering from failing health for several years.