Historical Events In February - 20

1865  On this day in history m I T forms 1st US collegiate architectural school  

1869  On February - 20 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  On this day in history hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin  

1872  Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags on this day in history.  

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

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

1873  On this day in history u of Calif gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF)  

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

1876  Fyodor Akimenko, composer on this day in history.  

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

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

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

1883  Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night) on February - 20.  

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

1887  On February - 20 germany, Austria-Hungary &France end Triple Alliance  

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

1887  On this day in history david McKinley Williams, composer  

1888  Georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest) on February - 20.  

1889  On February - 20 levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer  

1890  On this day in history amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire  

1892  Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74 on February - 20.  

1893  Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father) on this day in history.  

1895  On February - 20 abolitionist Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, D.C.  

1895  Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver CO on this day in history.  

1895  On February - 20 congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo  

1895  Freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping) on February - 20.  

1895  Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77 on this day in history.  

1896  Henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist on this day in history.  

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

1898  The birth of Enzo Ferrari, Italian car manufacturer on February - 20.  

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

1899  On February - 20 ill Tel & Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system  

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1494  On this day in history birth of johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism)  

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

1523  On February - 20 birth of jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers)  

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 February - 20.  

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

1734  On this day in history birth of franz Ignaz Beck, composer  

1745  Johann Peter Salomon, composer was born on February - 20.  

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

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

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

1194  On February - 20 tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies  

1258  Death of Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad on February - 20.  

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

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.