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

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

1872  On February - 20 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 February - 20 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  Mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star on this day in history.   

1876  On February - 20 fyodor Akimenko, composer   

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 February - 20.   

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

1887  On this day in history 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  On February - 20 georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest)   

1889  Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1895  Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo on February - 20.   

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

1895  On this day in history frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77   

1896  On this day in history henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist   

1897  Ivan Albright, Illinois, painter (Door, Window) on this day in history.   

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

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

1899  On February - 20 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 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  Johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised was born on February - 20.   

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

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

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

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

1171  On this day in history death of conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)   

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

1258  On this day in history death of al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad   

1408  On this day in history death of henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342)   

1431  On February - 20 martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies   

1524  Death of Tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya on this day in history.