Page 4: Historical Events In February - 20
Saturday, 25 October 2025
1865 On this day in history 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 this day in history. 

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

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

1872 Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags on February - 20. 

1872 Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City on February - 20. 

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

1873 On February - 20 u of Calif gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF) 

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

1876 On February - 20 fyodor Akimenko, composer 

1877 On February - 20 first cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg KY 

1877 On February - 20 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 On this day in history bela Kun, Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919) 

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 On February - 20 david McKinley Williams, composer 

1888 Georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest) on this day in history. 

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 On February - 20 abolitionist Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, D.C. 

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 On February - 20 freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping) 

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

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

1897 Ivan Albright, Illinois, painter (Door, Window) on February - 20. 

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

1899 Illinois Tel &Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system on this day in history. 

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

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