Page 4: Historical Events In February - 20

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

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

1869  Tenn Gov W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis on this day in history.   

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

1872  On February - 20 hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin   

1872  Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags on February - 20.   

1872  On February - 20 metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.   

1872  On this day in history silas Noble &JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine   

1873  On February - 20 u of Calif gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF)   

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

1876  On this day in history fyodor Akimenko, composer   

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

1877  1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky on February - 20.   

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

1883  Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night) on this day in history.   

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

1887  Germany, Austria-Hungary &France end Triple Alliance on February - 20.   

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

1887  On this day in history david McKinley Williams, composer   

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

1889  Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer on this day in history.   

1890  Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire on this day in history.   

1892  Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1893  On this day in history russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)   

1895  Abolitionist Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, D.C on this day in history.   

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

1895  On this day in history congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo   

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

1895  On February - 20 frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77   

1896  Henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist on February - 20.   

1897  Ivan Albright, Illinois, painter (Door, Window) on February - 20.   

1898  On February - 20 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  Johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism) was born on this day in history.   

1507  On this day in history birth of gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II)   

1523  Jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers) was born on February - 20.   

1632  Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories) was born on February - 20.   

1633  Jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher was born on this day in history.   

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

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

1745  On February - 20 birth of johann Peter Salomon, composer   

1054  On this day in history yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies   

1154  Death of Saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett on this day in history.   

1171  Death of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138) on February - 20.   

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

1258  Death of Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad on this day in history.   

1408  Death of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342) on February - 20.   

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

1524  On this day in history death of tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya