Historical Events In February - 20

1899  Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, LI NY, founder (Pan Am Airways) on February - 20.   

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 February - 20.   

1901  On February - 20 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  Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, SF on February - 20.   

1902  On this day in history ansel Adams, photographer (1966 ASMP Award)   

1903  Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge on this day in history.   

1903  On this day in history ella Maillart, explorer   

1904  The birth of Alexei Kosygin, Former Prime Minister of the USSR on this day in history.   

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  On February - 20 jascha Golowanjuk, Swedish writer (Acrobat)   

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

1907  Malcolm Atterbury, Phila, actor (Jonas-Thicker than Water, Apples Way) on this day in history.   

1907  [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, chemist (Nobel 1906), dies at 54 on February - 20.   

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

1909  On this day in history publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.   

1910  Julian Trevelyan, English Surrealist painter/collage maker on this day in history.   

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

1911  Margot Grahame on this day in history.   

1911  On February - 20 alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer, dies at 56   

1912  On this day in history argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket 1st-class fixture   

1913  On February - 20 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  On this day in history john Daly, S Africa, newscaster/TV game show host (What's My Line)   

1915  On February - 20 panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco   

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

1915  Philip Friend, Horsham England, actor (Vulture, Fur Collar) on this day in history.   

1916  Jackie Gleason, Bkln NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners) on February - 20.   

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 this day in history.   

1917  Frederick Page, CEO (British Aerospace Aircraft Group) on this day in history.   

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1494  Johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism) was born on February - 20.   

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

1523  Jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers) was born on February - 20.   

1632  On February - 20 birth of thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories)   

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  On February - 20 birth of franz Ignaz Beck, composer   

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

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

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

1171  Death of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138) on February - 20.   

1194  Tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies on February - 20.   

1258  On February - 20 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 February - 20 martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies   

1524  Death of Tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya on this day in history.