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On This Day: February 20
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Every entry on this date through all eight years of the Reagan administration.
Diary Entry - 02/20/1981
Key Facts
Space shuttle Columbia clears the final major hurdle to its maiden launch by firing its three engines in a twenty-second test.
Basque terrorists kidnap the consuls of Austria, El Salvador and Uruguay.
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Weather was beautiful—rode in the morning. Hauled wood in P.M. It was as if we’d never ben away.
