February 20

Theatrical releases

Shorts

• 1928 - Africa Before Dark
• 1937 - Moose Hunters

Films

• 2004 - Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
• 2015 - McFarland, USA

Television

• 1959 - The Walt Disney Presents film Elfago Baca: The Griswold Murder premieres on ABC.
• 1977 - The Wonderful World of Disney episode "Go West, Young Dog" premieres on NBC.
• 1982 - Walt Disney episode "Beyond Witch Mountain" premieres on CBS.
• 1991
  • The Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears episode "May the Best Princess Win" premieres in syndication.
  • The TaleSpin episode "The Road to Macadamia" premieres in syndication.
• 1992 - The Darkwing Duck episode "Let's Get Respectable" premieres in syndication.
• 1994 - The Aladdin episode "Fowl Weather" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 1995
  • The Aladdin episode "From Hippsodeth, with Love" premieres in syndication.
  • The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show episodes "Kung Fu Kitty", "Son of the Cursed Black of Darkness", and "Saddlesores, Sagebrush and Seaweed" premiere in syndication.
• 1996 - The Gargoyles episode "Bushido" premieres in syndication.
• 1998 - The 101 Dalmatians: The Series episodes "Jurassic Bark" and "My Fair Moochie" premieres in syndication.
• 1999 - The Disney's Doug episode "Doug's Sour Songbird" premieres on ABC.
• 2000
  • The Pepper Ann episodes "Bye, Bye Trinket/P.A.'s Pop Fly" premiere on UPN and in syndication.
  • The Recess episodes "Yope from Norway/Bonky Fever" premiere on UPN and in syndication.
• 2004
  • The Lloyd in Space episode "Go Crater Worms!" premieres on Toon Disney.
  • The Kim Possible episode "Blush" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Dave the Barbarian episodes "Sorcerer Material" and "Sweep Dreams" premiere on Disney Channel.
• 2006
  • The Little Einsteins episode "The Northern Night Light" premieres on Playhouse Disney.
  • American Dragon: Jake Long premieres on Toon Disney for the first time.
  • The That's So Raven season four premiere "Raven, Sydney and the Man" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2009
  • The Phineas and Ferb episodes "Interview With a Platypus/Tip of the Day" premiere on Disney XD.
  • The Suite Life on Deck episode "Mom and Dad on Deck" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2010
  • Mickey Mouse Clubhouse concludes its second season on Disney Channel with the episode "Mickey's Big Surprise".
  • The Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil episodes "Kicked Out" and "Kick the Habit" premiere on Disney XD.
  • The Phineas and Ferb episodes "Invasion of the Ferb Snatchers/Ain't No Kiddie Ride" premiere on Disney XD.
• 2011
  • The second season of Good Luck Charlie premieres on Disney Channel with the episode "Charlie is 2".
  • The Shake It Up episode "Show It Up" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2012 - Season 2 of Jake and the Never Land Pirates premieres on Disney Jr. with the episode "Pixie Dust Away!".
• 2013 - The Imagination Movers episode "Shall We Dance?" premieres on Disney Jr.
• 2015
  • The Miles from Tomorrowland episodes "Who Stole the Stellosphere?/Rock N' Roll" premiere on Disney Channel.
  • The Sofia the First episode "Substitute Cedric" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Mickey Mouse animated short "Workin' Stiff" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Dog with a Blog episode "Guess Who's a Cheater?" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Jessie episode "Moby and SCOBY" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Phineas and Ferb half-hour special "Act Your Age" premieres on Disney Channel (originally premiered on Disney XD on February 9).
• 2016 - The 7D episodes "Say Pest to the Dress/Delight Me, Delight Me Not" premiere on Disney XD.
• 2017 - The Star vs. the Forces of Evil episode "Heinous" premieres on Disney XD.

Home media

• 1996 - Jasmine's Enchanted Tales: Magic and Mystery and Heavyweights
• 2001 - Clerks: The Animated Series Uncensored (DVD only; Miramax Home Entertainment)
• 2007 - The Prestige (Touchstone Home Entertainment)

People

Births

• 1919 - Dick Wesson † (announcer)
• 1946
  • Sandy Duncan (actress, singer, dancer, and comedian)
  • Brenda Blethyn (actress and voice actress)
• 1964
  • French Stewart (actor, voice actor, and comedian)
  • Willie Garson † (actor)
• 1978 - Jay Hernandez (actor and fashion model)
• 1985 - Jake Richardson (actor)
• 1988 - Rihanna (singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman)
• 2003 - Olivia Rodrigo (actress and singer-songwriter)

Deaths

• 1971 - William Lava (composer and arranger)
• 1985 - Clarence Nash (voice actor)