Page 4: Historical Events In February - 20

1865  On February - 20 m I T forms 1st US collegiate architectural school   

1869  On this day in history 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  Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen) on February - 20.   

1872  On this day in history 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  On February - 20 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 February - 20 fyodor Akimenko, composer   

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

1883  Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night) on February - 20.   

1886  On this day in history bela Kun, Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)   

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

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

1887  On February - 20 david McKinley Williams, composer   

1888  Georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest) on February - 20.   

1889  On February - 20 levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer   

1890  On February - 20 amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire   

1892  On February - 20 hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74   

1893  Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father) on February - 20.   

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

1895  On this day in history freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping)   

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 February - 20.   

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  Ill Tel & Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system on this day in history.   

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1494  Johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism) was born on this day in history.   

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  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  On February - 20 birth of johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised   

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

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

1054  On February - 20 yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies   

1154  On this day in history death of saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett   

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

1194  Tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies on February - 20.   

1258  On this day in history death of al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad   

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

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

1524  Death of Tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya on February - 20.