Top Historical Events That Happened on February 20

1872  Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.   

1872  Silas Noble and JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine   

1873  U of Calif gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF).   

1874  Mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star.   

1876  Fyodor Akimenko, composer.   

1877  inaugural cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg KY   

1877  1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky.   

1881  Pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo).   

1883  Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night)   

1886  Bela Kun, Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)   

1887  Germany, Austria-Hungary and France end Triple Alliance   

1887  1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh).   

1887  David McKinley Williams, composer   

1888  Georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest)   

1889  Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer.   

1890  Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire   

1892  Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74   

1893  Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father).   

1895  Abolitionist Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, D.C.   

1895  Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver CO   

1895  Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo.   

1895  Freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping)   

1895  Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77   

1896  Henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist   

1897  Ivan Albright, Illinois, painter (Door, Window)   

1898  Enzo Ferrari, Italian car manufacturer is born   

1899  Illinois Tel and Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system   

1899  Ill Tel and Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system.   

1899  Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, LI NY, founder (Pan Am Airways)   

1900  Antonio Veretti, composer.   

1901  inaugural territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes.   

1901  1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes.   

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

1902  Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks and damages Sutro Baths, San Francisco   

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1494  Johan friis: Chancellor (denmark, helped formed lutheranism)   

1507  Gentile bellini: Italian artist (sultan mohammed ii)   

1523  Jan blahoslav: Czech humanist/bishop (bohemian brothers)   

1632  Thomas osborne: Duke of leeds, english pm (1690-94)/founder (tories)   

1633  Jan de baen: Portrait painter/etcher   

1656  Johannes schenck: German/neth composer, baptised   

1734  Franz ignaz beck: Composer   

1745  Johann peter salomon: Composer   

1054  Yaroslav i: The wise, ruler (kiev),   

1154  Death of Saint wulfric of haselbury plucknett: Saint wulfric of haselbury plucknett   

1171  Conan iv: Duke of brittany (b. 1138)   

1194  Tancredo of lecce: King of sicily,   

1258  Death of Al-musta'sim: Last abbasid caliph of baghdad   

1408  Henry percy: 1st earl of northumberland, english statesman (b. 1342)   

1431  Death of Martinus v: [oddo colonna], italian pope,   

1524  Tecún umán: Last leader of the quiché-maya