On This Day: 20 FEBRUARY - From the Chicago News
- In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt signed an immigration act which excluded "idiots, imbeciles, feebleminded persons, epileptics, insane persons" from being admitted to the United States.
- In 1792, President George Washington signed an act creating the U.S. Post Office.
- In 1809, the Supreme Court, in United States v. Peters, ruled the power of the federal government is greater than that of any individual state.
- In 1839, Congress prohibited dueling in the District of Columbia.
- In 1987, a bomb blamed on the Unabomber exploded behind a computer store in Salt Lake City, seriously injuring store owner Gary Wright.
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