Page 4: Historical Events In February - 20

1865  M I T forms 1st US collegiate architectural school on this day in history.   

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

1872  On this day in history hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin   

1872  On this day in history luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags   

1872  Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City on this day in history.   

1872  On this day in history silas Noble &JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine   

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

1874  Mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star on February - 20.   

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 this day in history pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo)   

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

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

1887  Germany, Austria-Hungary &France end Triple Alliance on this day in history.   

1887  On February - 20 1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh)   

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

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

1889  Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer on February - 20.   

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

1892  Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1893  On February - 20 russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)   

1895  Abolitionist Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, D.C on February - 20.   

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

1895  On February - 20 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 this day in history.   

1896  On February - 20 henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist   

1897  On this day in history ivan Albright, Illinois, painter (Door, Window)   

1898  On February - 20 the birth of Enzo Ferrari, Italian car manufacturer   

1899  Illinois Tel &Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system on February - 20.   

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 February - 20.   

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

1523  On this day in history birth of jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers)   

1632  On this day in history birth of thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories)   

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

1656  Johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised was born on February - 20.   

1734  Franz Ignaz Beck, composer was born on February - 20.   

1745  On February - 20 birth of johann Peter Salomon, composer   

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

1154  On this day in history death of saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett   

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

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

1258  On this day in history 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 February - 20 martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies   

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