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  On February - 20 first territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes   

1901  1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes on February - 20.   

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 this day in history.   

1902  Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, SF on this day in history.   

1902  Ansel Adams, photographer (1966 ASMP Award) on this day in history.   

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

1903  On this day in history ella Maillart, explorer   

1904  On February - 20 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 February - 20 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 this day in history malcolm Atterbury, Phila, actor (Jonas-Thicker than Water, Apples Way)   

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 February - 20.   

1909  On February - 20 publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.   

1910  On February - 20 julian Trevelyan, English Surrealist painter/collage maker   

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

1911  Margot Grahame on this day in history.   

1911  On February - 20 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  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 February - 20.   

1914  On February - 20 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 February - 20.   

1915  Philip Friend, Horsham England, actor (Vulture, Fur Collar) on this day in history.   

1916  On this day in history jackie Gleason, Bkln NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners)   

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 this day in history.   

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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 February - 20 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 this day in history.   

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  Death of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138) on this day in history.   

1194  On this day in history tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies   

1258  On February - 20 death of al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad   

1408  On February - 20 death of henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342)   

1431  On this day in history martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies   

1524  Death of Tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya on February - 20.