Historical Events In February - 20

1865  On February - 20 m I T forms 1st US collegiate architectural school   

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 February - 20.   

1872  On February - 20 hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin   

1872  On February - 20 luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags   

1872  On February - 20 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  On February - 20 mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star   

1876  Fyodor Akimenko, composer on this day in history.   

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

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

1881  Pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo) on this day in history.   

1883  On this day in history 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  Germany, Austria-Hungary &France end Triple Alliance on February - 20.   

1887  On this day in history 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  On this day in history 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 this day in history russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)   

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

1896  Henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist on February - 20.   

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

1898  The birth of Enzo Ferrari, Italian car manufacturer on this day in history.   

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

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

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1494  Johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism) was born on this day in history.   

1507  Gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II) was born on this day in history.   

1523  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

1734  Franz Ignaz Beck, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

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

1154  Death of Saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett on this day in history.   

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

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

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 February - 20.   

1431  Martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies on February - 20.   

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