Page 4: Historical Events In February - 20

1865  On February - 20 m I T forms 1st US collegiate architectural school   

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

1869  Tenn Gov W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis on February - 20.   

1870  Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen) on this day in history.   

1872  Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin on February - 20.   

1872  On February - 20 luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags   

1872  On February - 20 metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.   

1872  On February - 20 silas Noble &JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine   

1873  U of Calif gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF) on this day in history.   

1874  On February - 20 mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star   

1876  Fyodor Akimenko, composer on this day in history.   

1877  First cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg KY on February - 20.   

1877  On February - 20 1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky   

1881  On February - 20 pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo)   

1883  Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night) on this day in history.   

1886  On February - 20 bela Kun, Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)   

1887  Germany, Austria-Hungary &France end Triple Alliance on February - 20.   

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

1887  David McKinley Williams, composer on this day in history.   

1888  On this day in history georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest)   

1889  On February - 20 levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer   

1890  On February - 20 amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire   

1892  On this day in history hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74   

1893  Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father) on February - 20.   

1895  Abolitionist Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, D.C on this day in history.   

1895  On this day in history congress authorizes a US mint at Denver CO   

1895  On this day in history congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo   

1895  Freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping) on this day in history.   

1895  Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77 on February - 20.   

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  On this day in history the birth of Enzo Ferrari, Italian car manufacturer   

1899  On February - 20 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 this day in history birth of gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II)   

1523  Jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers) was born on February - 20.   

1632  On February - 20 birth of thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories)   

1633  Jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher was born on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1054  On February - 20 yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies   

1154  Death of Saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett on this day in history.   

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

1194  Tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies on this day in history.   

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  Martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies on February - 20.   

1524  Death of Tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya on February - 20.