Page 5: Historical Events In February - 20

1899  Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, LI NY, founder (Pan Am Airways) on this day in history.   

1900  On February - 20 antonio Veretti, composer   

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

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

1901  Ali Muhammad Naguib, Khartoum, president of Egypt (1952-54) on this day in history.   

1902  Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks &damages Sutro Baths, San Francisco on February - 20.   

1902  On February - 20 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  Ella Maillart, explorer on February - 20.   

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

1904  Aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier (1964-80) on this day in history.   

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

1905  On this day in history jascha Golowanjuk, Swedish writer (Acrobat)   

1905  On this day in history jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain   

1907  On this day in history malcolm Atterbury, Phila, actor (Jonas-Thicker than Water, Apples Way)   

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

1908  Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1) on February - 20.   

1909  Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro on February - 20.   

1910  On February - 20 julian Trevelyan, English Surrealist painter/collage maker   

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

1911  Margot Grahame on this day in history.   

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

1912  On February - 20 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 this day in history.   

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

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

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

1915  Philip Friend, Horsham England, actor (Vulture, Fur Collar) on February - 20.   

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 this day in history.   

1917  Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die on this day in history.   

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

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1494  On February - 20 birth of johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism)   

1507  Gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II) was born on this day in history.   

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 February - 20.   

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

1734  On February - 20 birth of franz Ignaz Beck, composer   

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

1054  On February - 20 yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies   

1154  On this day in history death of saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett   

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

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 this day in history death of henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342)   

1431  Martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies on February - 20.   

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