Historical Events In February - 20

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

1900  Antonio Veretti, composer on this day in history.  

1901  On this day in history first territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes  

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

1901  Ali Muhammad Naguib, Khartoum, president of Egypt (1952-54) on February - 20.  

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  On February - 20 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 this day in history.  

1904  The birth of Alexei Kosygin, Former Prime Minister of the USSR on this day in history.  

1904  On February - 20 aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier (1964-80)  

1904  Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer, dies at 83 on this day in history.  

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

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

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

1909  Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro on this day in history.  

1910  On this day in history julian Trevelyan, English Surrealist painter/collage maker  

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

1911  On February - 20 margot Grahame  

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

1912  On February - 20 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 February - 20.  

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

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

1915  Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in SF on this day in history.  

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

1916  Jackie Gleason, Bkln NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners) on February - 20.  

1916  On this day in history klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71  

1917  Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die on February - 20.  

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  On this day in history birth of gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II)  

1523  On February - 20 birth of jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers)  

1632  Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories) was born on February - 20.  

1633  Jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher was born on February - 20.  

1656  Johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised was born on this day in history.  

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

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

1054  Yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies on this day in history.  

1154  Death of Saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett on February - 20.  

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

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  On February - 20 death of tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya