Page 4: Historical Events In February - 20

1865  M I T forms 1st US collegiate architectural school on this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

1873  U of Calif gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF) on February - 20.   

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

1876  On this day in history fyodor Akimenko, composer   

1877  On this day in history 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 this day in history shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night)   

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 this day in history.   

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 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 February - 20 russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)   

1895  Abolitionist Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, D.C on February - 20.   

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  On this day in history 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 this day in history ivan Albright, Illinois, painter (Door, Window)   

1898  The birth of Enzo Ferrari, Italian car manufacturer on this day in history.   

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

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  On this day in history birth of franz Ignaz Beck, composer   

1745  Johann Peter Salomon, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

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

1171  On this day in history death of conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)   

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