On this day: February 20

POSTED: 04:12 PM PST Feb 19, 2013    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Feb 19, 2013 

The Post Office is born, World War II gets its first flying ace, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth, and a fire at a Great White concert leaves 100 dead, all on this day.

OTD February 20 - Rossini
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1816: Gioachino Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville" premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome, Italy, under the name "Almaviva, or the Futile Precaution."

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