Historical Events In February - 20

1865  On this day in history m I T forms 1st US collegiate architectural school   

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  On February - 20 pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen)   

1872  Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin on February - 20.   

1872  On this day in history luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags   

1872  On this day in history metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.   

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 February - 20.   

1874  On this day in history mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star   

1876  On February - 20 fyodor Akimenko, composer   

1877  On February - 20 first cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg KY   

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

1881  On February - 20 pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo)   

1883  On this day in history shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night)   

1886  Bela Kun, Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919) on this day in history.   

1887  On February - 20 germany, Austria-Hungary &France end Triple Alliance   

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

1887  David McKinley Williams, composer on this day in history.   

1888  On this day in history georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest)   

1889  Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer on February - 20.   

1890  Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire on February - 20.   

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  Abolitionist Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, D.C on February - 20.   

1895  Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver CO on February - 20.   

1895  On February - 20 congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo   

1895  On February - 20 freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping)   

1895  On this day in history frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77   

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  On this day in history the birth of Enzo Ferrari, Italian car manufacturer   

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

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

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1494  On this day in history birth of johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism)   

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 this day in history birth of thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories)   

1633  On February - 20 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  Johann Peter Salomon, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

1154  On February - 20 death of saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett   

1171  On February - 20 death of conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)   

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

1431  On February - 20 martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies   

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