Australian News / 20 February 2022
20 February 2022
12.05pm (AEDT) – Winter Olympics Women’s Curling Final – Beijing
3.10pm (AEDT) – Winter Olympics Men’s Ice Hockey Final – Beijing
5.10pm (AEDT) – Men’s 5th T20 Cricket Match – Australia v Sri Lanka – Melbourne
Presidents’ Day in the US
Birthdays for Ivana Trump (1949), Cindy Crawford (1966), and Rihanna (1988)
Anniversary of:
• British naval officer John Moresby discovering the site of what would become Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea and claiming it for Great Britain (1873)
• Kurt Cobain’s birthday (1967)
• the Southern Hemisphere’s most powerful storm on record (296km/hour), Cyclone Winston, hitting Fiji (2016)
• Venezuela becoming the first country to launch a virtual currency, the petro, to counteract their financial crisis (2018)
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