Historical Events In February - 20

1899  Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, LI NY, founder (Pan Am Airways) on February - 20.   

1900  Antonio Veretti, composer on February - 20.   

1901  First territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes on February - 20.   

1901  On February - 20 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes   

1901  On February - 20 ali Muhammad Naguib, Khartoum, president of Egypt (1952-54)   

1902  Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks &damages Sutro Baths, San Francisco on this day in history.   

1902  Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, SF on February - 20.   

1902  On this day in history ansel Adams, photographer (1966 ASMP Award)   

1903  On February - 20 nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge   

1903  On February - 20 ella Maillart, explorer   

1904  On this day in history the birth of Alexei Kosygin, Former Prime Minister of the USSR   

1904  Aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier (1964-80) on this day in history.   

1904  Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

1905  On February - 20 jascha Golowanjuk, Swedish writer (Acrobat)   

1905  On this day in history jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain   

1907  Malcolm Atterbury, Phila, actor (Jonas-Thicker than Water, Apples Way) on this day in history.   

1907  On February - 20 [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, chemist (Nobel 1906), dies at 54   

1908  On this day in history grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1)   

1909  On February - 20 publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.   

1910  Julian Trevelyan, English Surrealist painter/collage maker on February - 20.   

1910  Boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered on this day in history.   

1911  Margot Grahame on February - 20.   

1911  On this day in history alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer, dies at 56   

1912  Argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket 1st-class fixture on this day in history.   

1913  On February - 20 king O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.   

1913  Jozef Kresanek, composer on this day in history.   

1914  On this day in history john Daly, S Africa, newscaster/TV game show host (What's My Line)   

1915  On this day in history panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco   

1915  On this day in history panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in SF   

1915  Philip Friend, Horsham England, actor (Vulture, Fur Collar) on February - 20.   

1916  Jackie Gleason, Bkln NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners) on this day in history.   

1916  Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71 on February - 20.   

1917  On this day in history ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die   

1917  Frederick Page, CEO (British Aerospace Aircraft Group) on February - 20.   

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1494  On February - 20 birth of johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism)   

1507  Gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II) was born on February - 20.   

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  Jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher was born on this day in history.   

1656  On this day in history birth of johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised   

1734  On February - 20 birth of franz Ignaz Beck, composer   

1745  Johann Peter Salomon, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

1154  On February - 20 death of saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett   

1171  On February - 20 death of conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)   

1194  Tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies on February - 20.   

1258  On February - 20 death of al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad   

1408  Death of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342) on this day in history.   

1431  On this day in history martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies   

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