Page 4: 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  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 this day in history.   

1872  On this day in history hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin   

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

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

1876  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

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  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  Abolitionist Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, D.C on February - 20.   

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  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 this day in history 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 February - 20.   

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 this day in history.   

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  On this day in history birth of jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher   

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

1431  On this day in history martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies   

1524  On this day in history death of tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya