Page 5: Historical Events In February - 20

1902  Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks and damages Sutro Baths, SF   

1902  Ansel Adams, photographer (1966 ASMP Award).   

1903  Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge.   

1903  Ella Maillart, explorer.   

1904  Alexei Kosygin, Former Prime Minister of the USSR is born   

1904  Aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier (1964-80)   

1904  Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer, dies at 83.   

1905  Jascha Golowanjuk, Swedish writer (Acrobat)   

1905  Jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain.   

1907  Malcolm Atterbury, Phila, actor (Jonas-Thicker than Water, Apples Way).   

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

1908  Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1).   

1909  Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro   

1910  Julian Trevelyan, English Surrealist painter/collage maker.   

1910  Boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered   

1911  Margot Grahame   

1911  Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer, dies at 56.   

1912  Argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket 1st-class fixture   

1913  King O'Malley drives in the inaugural survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra   

1913  Jozef Kresanek, composer.   

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

1915  Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco   

1915  Philip Friend, Horsham England, actor (Vulture, Fur Collar)   

1916  Jackie Gleason, Bkln NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners)   

1916  Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71   

1917  Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1500 die.   

1917  Frederick Page, CEO (British Aerospace Aircraft Group)   

1918  Leonore Annenberg American Billionaire   

1919  French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt.   

1920  Robert E. Peary, Arctic explorer, dies   

1920  Robert E Peary, US pole explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909), dies at 63   

1921  Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran   

1922  Vilnius, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland.   

1922  Marc Connelly and George Kaufman's "To the Ladies," premieres in NYC   

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1494  Johan friis: Chancellor (denmark, helped formed lutheranism)   

1507  Gentile bellini: Italian artist (sultan mohammed ii)   

1523  Jan blahoslav: Czech humanist/bishop (bohemian brothers)   

1632  Thomas osborne: Duke of leeds, english pm (1690-94)/founder (tories)   

1633  Jan de baen: Portrait painter/etcher   

1656  Johannes schenck: German/neth composer, baptised   

1734  Franz ignaz beck: Composer   

1745  Johann peter salomon: Composer   

1054  Yaroslav i: The wise, ruler (kiev),   

1154  Death of Saint wulfric of haselbury plucknett: Saint wulfric of haselbury plucknett   

1171  Conan iv: Duke of brittany (b. 1138)   

1194  Tancredo of lecce: King of sicily,   

1258  Al-musta'sim: Last abbasid caliph of baghdad   

1408  Death of Henry percy: 1st earl of northumberland, english statesman (b. 1342)   

1431  Martinus v: [oddo colonna], italian pope,   

1524  Tecún umán: Last leader of the quiché-maya