20 February: What Happened On This Day in History

British captured Lahore.

Royal Calcutta Turf Club was established.

British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced that Britain would leave India by June 1948.

Earl Mountbatten of Burma appointed as last viceroy of India to oversee the move to independence.

First-time heart transplant was done at K E M Hospital, Mumbai. Dr. P K Sen performed this complex surgery.

Bombay High Field commenced the production of crude oil for commercial use.

Mizoram became the 23rd state of India.

Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.

Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack.

In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago.

Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters died in Ukraine's capital Kiev, many reportedly killed by snipers.

Telangana became the 29th state of India.

Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services.

Six people are killed and two injured in multiple shooting incidents in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.