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 - Ansel Adams
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1902: Photographer Ansel Adams, best known for his black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, is born in San Francisco, Calif.

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