Page 5: Historical Events In February - 20

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

1900  On February - 20 antonio Veretti, composer   

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

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

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

1902  On February - 20 ansel Adams, photographer (1966 ASMP Award)   

1903  Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge on February - 20.   

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  On this day in history gustav Adolf Heinze, composer, dies at 83   

1905  On February - 20 jascha Golowanjuk, Swedish writer (Acrobat)   

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 this day in history.   

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

1910  On February - 20 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  On February - 20 argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket 1st-class fixture   

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  Jozef Kresanek, composer on this day in history.   

1914  On February - 20 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 February - 20 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 February - 20 klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71   

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

1917  Frederick Page, CEO (British Aerospace Aircraft Group) on February - 20.   

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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  Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories) was born on February - 20.   

1633  On February - 20 birth of jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher   

1656  On this day in history birth of johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised   

1734  Franz Ignaz Beck, composer was born on this day in history.   

1745  Johann Peter Salomon, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

1154  On February - 20 death of saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett   

1171  On February - 20 death of conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)   

1194  On February - 20 tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies   

1258  Death of Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad on February - 20.   

1408  Death of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342) on February - 20.   

1431  Martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies on this day in history.   

1524  On this day in history death of tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya