Historical Events In February - 20

1865  M I T forms 1st US collegiate architectural school on February - 20.   

1869  Tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis on this day in history.   

1869  On this day in history tenn Gov W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis   

1870  On this day in history pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen)   

1872  On February - 20 hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin   

1872  Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags on this day in history.   

1872  On this day in history metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.   

1872  Silas Noble &JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine on this day in history.   

1873  U of Calif gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF) on February - 20.   

1874  Mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star on this day in history.   

1876  Fyodor Akimenko, composer on February - 20.   

1877  First cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg KY on this day in history.   

1877  On this day in history 1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky   

1881  Pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo) on February - 20.   

1883  On this day in history shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night)   

1886  Bela Kun, Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919) on February - 20.   

1887  On February - 20 germany, Austria-Hungary &France end Triple Alliance   

1887  On this day in history 1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh)   

1887  On this day in history david McKinley Williams, composer   

1888  On February - 20 georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest)   

1889  Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer on this day in history.   

1890  Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire on this day in history.   

1892  On February - 20 hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74   

1893  On this day in history russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)   

1895  On this day in history abolitionist Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, D.C.   

1895  Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver CO on this day in history.   

1895  On February - 20 congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo   

1895  Freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping) on February - 20.   

1895  On this day in history frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77   

1896  On this day in history henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist   

1897  On February - 20 ivan Albright, Illinois, painter (Door, Window)   

1898  The birth of Enzo Ferrari, Italian car manufacturer on this day in history.   

1899  On this day in history illinois Tel &Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system   

1899  On this day in history ill Tel & Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system   

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1494  Johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism) was born on this day in history.   

1507  On February - 20 birth of gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II)   

1523  Jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers) was born on this day in history.   

1632  Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories) was born on this day in history.   

1633  On February - 20 birth of jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher   

1656  Johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised was born on this day in history.   

1734  On this day in history birth of franz Ignaz Beck, composer   

1745  On this day in history birth of johann Peter Salomon, composer   

1054  Yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies on February - 20.   

1154  Death of Saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett on February - 20.   

1171  Death of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138) on February - 20.   

1194  On this day in history tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies   

1258  Death of Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad on this day in history.   

1408  On this day in history death of henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342)   

1431  On February - 20 martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies   

1524  Death of Tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya on this day in history.