Page 4: 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  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 this day in history luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags   

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 February - 20.   

1876  On February - 20 fyodor Akimenko, composer   

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

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

1881  On this day in history pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo)   

1883  On February - 20 shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night)   

1886  Bela Kun, Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919) on this day in history.   

1887  On this day in history germany, Austria-Hungary &France end Triple Alliance   

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

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

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

1889  On February - 20 levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer   

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

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

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

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  On February - 20 frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77   

1896  On February - 20 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 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  On February - 20 birth of johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism)   

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 this day in history.   

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  On February - 20 birth of johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised   

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

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

1054  On this day in history yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies   

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

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  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  On February - 20 death of tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya