Page 4: Historical Events In February - 20
Sunday, 15 June 2025
1865 M I T forms 1st US collegiate architectural school on February - 20.
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 this day in history.
1872 Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin on February - 20.
1872 On this day in history 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 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 Mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star on February - 20.
1876 On February - 20 fyodor Akimenko, composer
1877 First cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg KY on this day in history.
1877 1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky on this day in history.
1881 On this day in history pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo)
1883 On February - 20 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 On this day in history germany, Austria-Hungary &France end Triple Alliance
1887 1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh) on February - 20.
1887 David McKinley Williams, composer on this day in history.
1888 On February - 20 georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest)
1889 On February - 20 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 February - 20 russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)
1895 Abolitionist Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, D.C on February - 20.
1895 Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver CO on this day in history.
1895 On this day in history congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo
1895 Freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping) on this day in history.
1895 On February - 20 frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77
1896 On February - 20 henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist
1897 On February - 20 ivan Albright, Illinois, painter (Door, Window)
1898 On this day in history the birth of Enzo Ferrari, Italian car manufacturer
1899 On this day in history 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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