Page 5: Historical Events In February - 20

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

1900  Antonio Veretti, composer on this day in history.   

1901  On this day in history first territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes   

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

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

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

1902  On this day in history heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, SF   

1902  Ansel Adams, photographer (1966 ASMP Award) on this day in history.   

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

1903  On February - 20 ella Maillart, explorer   

1904  On this day in history the birth of Alexei Kosygin, Former Prime Minister of the USSR   

1904  On this day in history aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier (1964-80)   

1904  Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer, dies at 83 on February - 20.   

1905  Jascha Golowanjuk, Swedish writer (Acrobat) on this day in history.   

1905  Jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain on February - 20.   

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 February - 20.   

1908  On February - 20 grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1)   

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

1910  Julian Trevelyan, English Surrealist painter/collage maker on February - 20.   

1910  Boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered on this day in history.   

1911  Margot Grahame on February - 20.   

1911  On this day in history alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer, dies at 56   

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

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

1913  On this day in history jozef Kresanek, composer   

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

1915  On this day in history panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco   

1915  On this day in history panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in SF   

1915  On February - 20 philip Friend, Horsham England, actor (Vulture, Fur Collar)   

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

1916  Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71 on February - 20.   

1917  On February - 20 ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die   

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 this day in history.   

1507  Gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II) was born on February - 20.   

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 this day in history.   

1633  Jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher was born on February - 20.   

1656  Johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised was born on this day in history.   

1734  Franz Ignaz Beck, composer was born on February - 20.   

1745  Johann Peter Salomon, composer was born on February - 20.   

1054  Yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies on February - 20.   

1154  Death of Saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett on February - 20.   

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  Death of Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad on this day in history.   

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