Page 4: Historical Events In February - 20

1865  On February - 20 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  Tenn Gov W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis on this day in history.   

1870  Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen) on this day in history.   

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  Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City on February - 20.   

1872  Silas Noble &JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine on February - 20.   

1873  U of Calif gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF) on this day in history.   

1874  Mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star on this day in history.   

1876  Fyodor Akimenko, composer on February - 20.   

1877  First cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg KY on February - 20.   

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

1881  Pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo) on February - 20.   

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 this day in history.   

1887  Germany, Austria-Hungary &France end Triple Alliance on this day in history.   

1887  1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh) on February - 20.   

1887  On February - 20 david McKinley Williams, composer   

1888  On this day in history georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest)   

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

1890  On this day in history amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire   

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

1893  Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father) on February - 20.   

1895  On February - 20 abolitionist Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, D.C.   

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

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

1895  Freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping) on February - 20.   

1895  Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history the birth of Enzo Ferrari, Italian car manufacturer   

1899  On February - 20 illinois Tel &Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system   

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

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1494  On this day in history birth of johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism)   

1507  On February - 20 birth of gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II)   

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 February - 20.   

1633  On this day in history birth of jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher   

1656  On February - 20 birth of johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised   

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

1745  On February - 20 birth of johann Peter Salomon, composer   

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  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 February - 20 death of henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342)   

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

1524  Death of Tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya on February - 20.