Page 4: Historical Events In February - 20

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

1869  On February - 20 tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis   

1869  On February - 20 tenn Gov W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis   

1870  On this day in history pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen)   

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

1872  On February - 20 luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags   

1872  On February - 20 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 this day in history.   

1874  Mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star on this day in history.   

1876  On February - 20 fyodor Akimenko, composer   

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

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

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

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  Georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest) on this day in history.   

1889  Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer on February - 20.   

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

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

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

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

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

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

1896  On this day in history henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist   

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

1899  On this day in history ill Tel & Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system   

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1494  Johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism) was born on February - 20.   

1507  Gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II) was born on February - 20.   

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

1632  On February - 20 birth of thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories)   

1633  Jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher was born on February - 20.   

1656  On this day in history birth of johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised   

1734  Franz Ignaz Beck, composer was born on this day in history.   

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  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  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  Death of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342) on this day in history.   

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