Page 4: Historical Events In February - 20

1865  M I T forms 1st US collegiate architectural school on February - 20.   

1869  Tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis on February - 20.   

1869  On this day in history tenn Gov W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis   

1870  Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen) on this day in history.   

1872  On this day in history hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin   

1872  Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags on this day in history.   

1872  Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City on this day in history.   

1872  Silas Noble &JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine on this day in history.   

1873  U of Calif gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF) on this day in history.   

1874  Mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star on February - 20.   

1876  Fyodor Akimenko, composer on this day in history.   

1877  First cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg KY on this day in history.   

1877  On this day in history 1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky   

1881  Pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo) on February - 20.   

1883  On February - 20 shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night)   

1886  On February - 20 bela Kun, Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)   

1887  On this day in history germany, Austria-Hungary &France end Triple Alliance   

1887  1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh) on February - 20.   

1887  David McKinley Williams, composer on February - 20.   

1888  On February - 20 georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest)   

1889  On this day in history levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer   

1890  On February - 20 amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire   

1892  On this day in history hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74   

1893  On February - 20 russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)   

1895  On February - 20 abolitionist Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, D.C.   

1895  Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver CO on this day in history.   

1895  Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo on this day in history.   

1895  Freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping) on this day in history.   

1895  Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

1896  Henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist on this day in history.   

1897  On this day in history ivan Albright, Illinois, painter (Door, Window)   

1898  The birth of Enzo Ferrari, Italian car manufacturer on February - 20.   

1899  Illinois Tel &Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system on February - 20.   

1899  On February - 20 ill Tel & Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system   

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1494  On this day in history 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  Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories) was born on this day in history.   

1633  On February - 20 birth of jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher   

1656  Johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised was born on February - 20.   

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  On February - 20 yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies   

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  Death of Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad on this day in history.   

1408  On this day in history death of henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342)   

1431  Martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies on this day in history.   

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