Today in Memphis and World History: February 20

February 20, 2011 A shocked Andy Roddick watches as a wild diving return drops in bounds for game-set-match during his finals matchup against Milos Raonic in the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships at the Racquet Club Sunday afternoon. (Jim Weber/The Commercial Appeal)

February 20. 2006 - Firefighters try to get a blaze under control Monday night at the Skateland skating rink off Summer Ave.

February 20, 2007 - Venus Williams returns a serve during her match against Caroline Wozniacki Tuesday February 20, 2007 during the Cellular South Cup.

Getting ready for the upcoming city championships to be held in March, these handballers, Dr. Arthur Womble (Left), Harold M. Robinson Jr. (Center) and Charley Mulwee were all business on February 20, 1955. The tournament was to be held at the Leslie M. Stratton YMCA courts. The Commercial Appeal files.

Josh Pastner said he was so stressed coaching the Tigers, "I could feel the clogs in my arteries."

February 20, 2008 - Charlie Vergos' Rendezvous is making news again, as the city held a brief ceremony officially renaming the alley where the famous eatery is to Charlie Vergos' Rendezvous Alley. Family, friends, city officials and others attended. Vergos is seen here awaiting the ceremony.

February 20, 2010 -Memphis Hash House Harriers (left to right) Leaf Hecker, Katherine Stoddard, Shannon Hecker, and Rachel Trevor participate in the clubs Second Annual Red Dress Run Saturday afternoon in Cooper Young. The Harriers are an international group of non-competitive running, social, and drinking clubs. Twice a month the Memphis Harriers stage an event where a lead runner sets a trail of usually 3 to 5 miles with flour, chalk, toilet paper, etc as markings, and members follows the trial. There are several stops along the trail where alcoholic beverages are consumed.

February 20, 2007 - Memphis' Jeremy Hunt, left, is congratulated by head coach John Calipari, right, after he scored his 1000th career point against Rice.

Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. sits in Criminal Court in Memphis, Tenn. February 20, 1997, during a recess in the hearings that would decide if James Earl Ray should get a trial. In prepared remarks, she said the family was calling ''for the trial that never happened as an appeal for truth and accountability.''

February 20, 2014 - As part of the announced $114 million project at Memphis International Airport gates A1 through A20 and C1 through C11 will be eliminated. The hallway to gates A1 through A16 was already sealed as daily flights declined. Even after the downsizing of the terminals the airport will retain more than 60 gates which is almost three times the 22 gates needed to accommodate the current flights. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)

February 20, 2012 - After serving an ace, John McEnroe playfully taunts opponents James Blake and Sam Querrey during Monday evening's exhibition match at the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships at the Racquet Club.

February 20, 1954 - Miss Elizabeth Walker of 1933 Glenview, escorted by Bill Allen of 1441 Eastmoreland, was presented as the new president of Southwestern's (now Rhodes College) chapter of Chi Omega Sorority during the group's dance on February 20, 1954, at the King Cotton Hotel. Miss Walker will guide activities of the Kappa Beta Chapter. (Charles Nicholas/The Commercial Appeal files)

February 20, 2015 - Hernando police assist a motorist whose vehicle slid into the median on I-55 North at the Pleasant Hill Road exit. Numerous roads were closed due to the icy conditions, most have been reopened with traffic moving slowly. (Stan Carroll/The Commercial Appeal)

February 20, 2016 - Jinggang Yin leads a chant for justice during a rally with members of the Asian community in Memphis to support former NYPD Officer Peter Liang who was convicted of second degree manslaughter in the death of African-American suspect in New York. The Asian community believes that Liang was singled out as a scapegoat in what has become a a highly politicized topic. (Jim Weber/The Commercial Appeal)

February 20, 1951 - Barry Sheft, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Sheft of 1342 North Parkway, and Sandra Lehman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Lehman of 1373 Faxon, exhibit Israeli products on Februaury 20, 1951, that will be on display at the Peabody at the Southern Regional Conference of Hadassah in March. Shown here are a menorah (left), a sader plate and four character dolls. The exhibit will also include tiels, jewelry, ashtrays and bowls. (The Commercial Appeal files)

February 20, 2009 - The Noura Jackson Murder Trial is in it's final stages in Judge Chris Craft's courtroom in Memphis Friday. Prosecutor Amy Weirich winds up the closing arguments. (Mike Maple/The Commercial Appeal files)

February 20, 2007 - Millington Central High School students Emily Busby and Morgan Drenning console each other at the site of a memorial erected for Jacob "Jake" C. Smith who died from injuries received in an auto accident Sunday night. Busby described Smith as the kind of person who would do anything to help another person. Smith is the second senior from Millington Central to die in auto accidents in the past two and a half months.

February 20, 2006 - (left to right) Ridgeway High School sophmore Hannah Skehill, 15, and freshman Ginny Stanford, 14, try out their new costumes for the school's production of Once Upon a Matress. The musical adaptation of the fairy tale The Princess and the Pea opens at the school Thursday and runs through Saturday. The performance is open to the public and is $10 for students and $12 for adults.

February 20, 2011 - A Memphis Firemen struggles free an injured Memphis Police Officer (middle) that was involved in accident after an elderly driver crashed into the back of his patrol car at the 27 mile-marker in the north bound lane of I-240 near the South Parkway exit Sunday afternoon. (Mark Weber/The Commercial Appeal)

A Saddam Hussein lookalike wearing a uniform dances with two scantily dressed women who were trying to disarm him during a party in Tel Aviv Friday, Feb. 20, 1998. Hundreds of Israelis tired of being scared of Saddam Hussein crammed into Tel Aviv's "KU Club'' early Friday for an "Anthrax Party,'' named after the germs of which Iraq has enough, according to U.N. weapons inspectors, to wipe out Tel Aviv. (AP PHOTO/Eyal Warshavsky)

Astronaut John Glenn is seen with his Friendship 7 space capsule atop an Atlas rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla., Feb. 20, 1962 ready for the flight which made him the first American to orbit the earth. (AP Photo)

Actress Evelyn Brent wears hostess pajamas, chartreuse velvet trousers and sable-trimmed metallic jacket with a silver-cloth turban, Feb. 20, 1929. (AP Photo)

Golden mask of Un Djebau En Djedet, husky general who commanded the archers of slight King Psusennes I of the Pharaohs about 3,000 years ago shown Feb. 20, 1946. It has just been unearthed by a French archeological mission under Professor Pierre Montet in a hidden chamber of King Psusennes’ tomb in the lower Nile valley at Sanel Hagar, formerly the capital city of Tanis. With precious statuettes of gods and goddesses and other artistic treasures, it constitutes the most important find made by the French mission since it resumed excavations interrupted by the war. (AP Photo)

The flaming wreckage of a bombed factory in Copenhagen, Feb. 20, 1943. (AP Photo)

President Ronald Reagan is pulled along by his pet dog ?Lucky? while he and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher take a stroll in the White House Rose Garden on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 1985 in Washington. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma)

Trough the warmth of civilization lies just beyond, this statue of “Balto” the indomitable lead dog who carried that famous serum to Nome, appears to be in its element during New York's heavy snowfall. The brilliantly-lighted skyline of upper Fifth Avenue in the background in the Central Park on Feb. 20, 1934. (AP Photo)

Kazutoshi Masunari, Panasonic's telecom design office manager, displays Japan's top handset maker's latest cellphone model in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Feb. 20, 2001. Mobile phones are rapidly becoming gadgets for entertainment, where totally different kinds of features have grown so hot the temptation is to forget the phones are for talking. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

A passer-by slips to the pavement while attempting to avoid the hooves of a policeman's horse outside Madison Square Garden, New York City, Feb. 20, 1939, where the German American Bund, a prp-Nazi movement, was holding a rally. Disorder having been feared after a counter-demonstration was announced, police kept crowds around the Garden on the move. (AP Photo)

Crowds rush for cover as sirens sound for the Daylight Air Raid Alarm at Rockefeller Plaza in New York on Feb. 20, 1943. (AP Photo/John Rooney)

Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain, center, releases a carrier pigeon bearing a message of greeting to Lady Baden Powel as her sister, Princess Margaret Rose, looks on, Feb. 20, 1943. It was one of the many messages sent by Girl Guides throughout Britain on Thinking Day, which marks the birthday of the late Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout movement. (AP Photo)

Jackie Robinson swings and hits during a scene in the film of his career, Feb. 20, 1950, in Anaheim, California. (AP Photo/Frank Filan)

U.S. actor Farley Granger comes to the aid of U.S. actress Shelley Winters after her dress became slightly unzipped at the screen writers award dinner in Hollywood, CA, Feb. 20, 1951. (AP Photo)

Actress Rita Hayworth is shown in a night club sequence scene from her first movie after a three-year absence abroad. Feb. 20, 1952. (AP Photo)

Men of the security forces in Cyprus search the village of Akaki, fourteen miles from Nicosia, on Feb. 20, 1957 during the transport of men and materials into the heights of the Troodos Mountains. A shot was fired at the troops as they passed. They immediately surrounded the village and searched everyone in it. Schoolboys, returning from school, stand around with their hands up. (AP Photo)

Bobby Meyers of Clifton, N. J. plays with an erector set, Feb. 20, 1961 -- one of the most popular inventions of Alfred Carlton Gilbert, head of the A. C. Gilbert Co. (AP Photo)

This artist's sketch shows Union forces as they suffer defeat in the Battle of Olustee, or Pond Ocean, Fla., during the American Civil War on Feb. 20, 1864. It was the only pitched battle with Confederate troops to take place in Florida. (AP Photo)

Volunteer Louis Jenkins teaches English at a school in Luzon in the Philippines on Feb. 20, 1970. A 1968 Gallup Poll shows that 72 percent of U.S. college students are interested in serving in either the Peace Corps or VISTA. (AP Photo)

This is a photo of fitness guru Jack LaLanne in his gym in Hollywood, Calif., on Feb. 20, 1980. (AP Photo)

Pop singer M.C. Hammer performs on stage at Radio City Music Hall during the 33rd annual Grammy Awards in New York City on Feb. 20, 1991. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm)

Allied soldiers fire heavy mortar at enemy positions as they keep Reds off balance on the Korean front on Feb. 20, 1951. (AP Photo)

The Friendship 7 capsule, containing astronaut John Glenn, is recovered from the Atlantic by the destroyer U.S.S. Noa after a successful space flight, Feb. 20, 1962. The yellow coloring in the water is dye to make the capsule more visible to the recovery crew. (AP Photo)

The great Wallendas go through a practice session 40 feet above a parking lot in Hollywood, California on Feb. 20, 1964, in preparation for a TV show. Carla Wallendas, 26, does a split on a pole carried by Leon Fort and Richard Gutzman while Carl Wallendas, 59, coaches. (AP Photo/DFS)

Actress Sophia Loren teases the hair of critic Gene Shalit in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 1979. During the filming of a segment for the NBC television ?Today? show. In the background is a large photograph of Miss Loren. The segment is scheduled for airing later this week. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff)

An unidentified man walks past a sand illustration of praying hands on Texas' South Padre Island on Sunday, Feb. 20, 1991.The flag-decorated creation is inscribed “Pray for Peace,” and was created by sand sculptor Walter McDonald of South Padre Island. (AP Photo/Delcia Lopez)

Blues legend B.B. King accepts his Grammy Award for best traditional blues recording for “Live at San Quentin” at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 1991 in New York during presentation of the 33rd annual Grammy Awards. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm)