Page 5: 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  First territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes on February - 20.   

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

1903  On this day in history 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 February - 20.   

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

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

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

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

1910  On this day in history boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered   

1911  On February - 20 margot Grahame   

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 this day in history.   

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  On February - 20 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  Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in SF on this day in history.   

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

1916  Jackie Gleason, Bkln NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners) on this day in history.   

1916  On February - 20 klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71   

1917  On this day in history ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die   

1917  On February - 20 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  On February - 20 birth of gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II)   

1523  On this day in history birth of jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers)   

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

1633  On this day in history birth of jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher   

1656  Johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised was born on February - 20.   

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

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

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

1154  Death of Saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett on this day in history.   

1171  On this day in history death of conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)   

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

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  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.