Page 5: 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  First territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes on this day in history.   

1901  On February - 20 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes   

1901  On this day in history ali Muhammad Naguib, Khartoum, president of Egypt (1952-54)   

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

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 this day in history nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge   

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

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

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

1905  On February - 20 jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain   

1907  On February - 20 malcolm Atterbury, Phila, actor (Jonas-Thicker than Water, Apples Way)   

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

1908  Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1) on this day in history.   

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 February - 20.   

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 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 February - 20.   

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

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

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

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  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 February - 20.   

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  Gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II) was born on February - 20.   

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

1734  Franz Ignaz Beck, composer was born on February - 20.   

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 February - 20.   

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

1194  On this day in history 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 February - 20.   

1524  On February - 20 death of tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya