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 February - 20 pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen)   

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

1872  On February - 20 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  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 February - 20.   

1876  On February - 20 fyodor Akimenko, composer   

1877  On this day in history first cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg KY   

1877  1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky on February - 20.   

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

1883  Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night) on this day in history.   

1886  Bela Kun, Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919) on February - 20.   

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  David McKinley Williams, composer on this day in history.   

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

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

1890  Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire on February - 20.   

1892  Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1893  On this day in history russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)   

1895  Abolitionist Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, D.C on this day in history.   

1895  On this day in history congress authorizes a US mint at Denver CO   

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

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

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

1899  On February - 20 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  Johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism) was born on February - 20.   

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  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 February - 20.   

1656  On this day in history 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  Yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies on February - 20.   

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

1171  Death of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138) on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history death of tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya