Page 5: Historical Events In February - 20

1899  On February - 20 cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, LI NY, founder (Pan Am Airways)   

1900  Antonio Veretti, composer on February - 20.   

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

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 February - 20.   

1902  On this day in history heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, SF   

1902  Ansel Adams, photographer (1966 ASMP Award) on February - 20.   

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

1903  Ella Maillart, explorer on February - 20.   

1904  On this day in history the birth of Alexei Kosygin, Former Prime Minister of the USSR   

1904  Aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier (1964-80) on February - 20.   

1904  On February - 20 gustav Adolf Heinze, composer, dies at 83   

1905  Jascha Golowanjuk, Swedish writer (Acrobat) on this day in history.   

1905  Jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain on this day in history.   

1907  Malcolm Atterbury, Phila, actor (Jonas-Thicker than Water, Apples Way) on February - 20.   

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

1908  On February - 20 grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1)   

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 February - 20.   

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

1911  On this day in history margot Grahame   

1911  Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer, dies at 56 on February - 20.   

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

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 this day in history.   

1914  John Daly, S Africa, newscaster/TV game show host (What's My Line) on February - 20.   

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  Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71 on February - 20.   

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 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  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  Jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher was born on February - 20.   

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  On this day in history 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 February - 20 death of conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)   

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

1258  On this day in history death of al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad   

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