Page 4: 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  Tenn Gov W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis on February - 20.   

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

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

1873  On this day in history u of Calif gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF)   

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

1876  On this day in history 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  Pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo) on February - 20.   

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  Germany, Austria-Hungary &France end Triple Alliance on this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

1890  On February - 20 amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire   

1892  Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74 on February - 20.   

1893  On this day in history 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  Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo on February - 20.   

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 February - 20.   

1897  On February - 20 ivan Albright, Illinois, painter (Door, Window)   

1898  On February - 20 the birth of Enzo Ferrari, Italian car manufacturer   

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 February - 20.   

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

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

1523  On February - 20 birth of jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers)   

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

1734  On February - 20 birth of franz Ignaz Beck, composer   

1745  Johann Peter Salomon, composer was born on February - 20.   

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

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

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  On February - 20 death of al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad   

1408  On February - 20 death of henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342)   

1431  Martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies on February - 20.   

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