Historical Events In February - 20

1899  On February - 20 cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, LI NY, founder (Pan Am Airways)  

1900  On February - 20 antonio Veretti, composer  

1901  On February - 20 first territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes  

1901  On this day in history 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes  

1901  On this day in history ali Muhammad Naguib, Khartoum, president of Egypt (1952-54)  

1902  Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks &damages Sutro Baths, San Francisco on this day in history.  

1902  On February - 20 heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, SF  

1902  Ansel Adams, photographer (1966 ASMP Award) on February - 20.  

1903  On February - 20 nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge  

1903  On February - 20 ella Maillart, explorer  

1904  On February - 20 the birth of Alexei Kosygin, Former Prime Minister of the USSR  

1904  On February - 20 aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier (1964-80)  

1904  On this day in history gustav Adolf Heinze, composer, dies at 83  

1905  Jascha Golowanjuk, Swedish writer (Acrobat) on February - 20.  

1905  On February - 20 jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain  

1907  On February - 20 malcolm Atterbury, Phila, actor (Jonas-Thicker than Water, Apples Way)  

1907  [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, chemist (Nobel 1906), dies at 54 on this day in history.  

1908  Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1) on this day in history.  

1909  On February - 20 publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.  

1910  On this day in history julian Trevelyan, English Surrealist painter/collage maker  

1910  Boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered on February - 20.  

1911  On this day in history margot Grahame  

1911  Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer, dies at 56 on February - 20.  

1912  Argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket 1st-class fixture on February - 20.  

1913  On this day in history king O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.  

1913  Jozef Kresanek, composer on February - 20.  

1914  John Daly, S Africa, newscaster/TV game show host (What's My Line) on this day in history.  

1915  Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco on February - 20.  

1915  On February - 20 panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in SF  

1915  On this day in history philip Friend, Horsham England, actor (Vulture, Fur Collar)  

1916  On this day in history jackie Gleason, Bkln NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners)  

1916  On this day in history klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71  

1917  Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die on February - 20.  

1917  On this day in history frederick Page, CEO (British Aerospace Aircraft Group)  

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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  Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories) was born on February - 20.  

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  On this day in history birth of johann Peter Salomon, composer  

1054  Yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies on this day in history.  

1154  On February - 20 death of saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett  

1171  On February - 20 death of conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)  

1194  Tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies on this day in history.  

1258  On February - 20 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  On this day in history death of tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya