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

1870  On February - 20 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  Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City on February - 20.   

1872  On February - 20 silas Noble &JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine   

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 this day in history fyodor Akimenko, composer   

1877  On this day in history first cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg KY   

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

1881  Pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo) on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history 1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh)   

1887  David McKinley Williams, composer on February - 20.   

1888  Georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest) on this day in history.   

1889  On February - 20 levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer   

1890  On February - 20 amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire   

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

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 this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

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

1898  On this day in history the birth of Enzo Ferrari, Italian car manufacturer   

1899  Illinois Tel &Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history birth of thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories)   

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

1656  Johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised was born on this day in history.   

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

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

1054  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

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

1431  Martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies on this day in history.   

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